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King Charles III and Prince Harry are currently in the midst of a tense period in their relationship after the latter made several negative revelations about his father in the press recently, and in his memoir, Spare.
However, according to Gyles Brandreth, it is not anything the King is too concerned about as he “knows it will pass”.
Speaking on the King’s strained communication with his son Prince Harry, Gyles claimed to Saga Magazine: “He [King Charles III] used to leave voicemail messages for William and Harry in the style of Just a Minute, doing his best to say what he had to say in under 60 seconds…
“King Charles is a very loving father… The advantage of being an older animal is that you have seen it all before.
“And so, I’m sure that whatever he is going through with Prince Harry, his father knows that this too will pass,” he added.
It comes as it was claimed by Harry that King Charles tried to stop him from taking legal action over alleged phone hacking, court papers claim.
In a witness statement, the Duke said he was “summoned to Buckingham Palace” and told to drop the cases because of the effect on the family.
The Duke is suing the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers, over alleged unlawful information-gathering.
But NGN wants to stop his claim, claiming he has run out of time to bring it.
The case is one of three major cases that Prince Harry has made against tabloid newspapers, all alleging unlawful information-gathering.
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In documents revealed at the High Court on Tuesday, Prince Harry claimed that Buckingham Palace and the newspaper group had struck a deal – which is why he did not bring a claim forward earlier.
He said he first became aware of the alleged deal in around 2012.
Harry claimed that under the deal, courtiers had secretly agreed that members of the Royal Family would put off legal claims, and the newspaper group promised to one day settle out-of-court, so as to spare the Royal Family embarrassment.
“The reason for this was to avoid the situation where a member of the Royal Family would have to sit in the witness box and recount the specific details of the private and highly-sensitive voicemails that had been intercepted.”
Prince Harry said courtiers were “incredibly nervous” about a repeat of the damaging disclosure of an intimate phone call between his father and Camilla, the Queen Consort, which had been intercepted and published at a time when King Charles was still married to the late Princess Diana.
NGN lawyers deny there was ever a secret agreement.
According to the court documents, Prince Harry said that by 2018 he had felt “frustrated that nothing had been resolved” and wanted to “force a resolution” to the phone-hacking claims.
The Sun’s owners say the Prince’s claim for damages should be scrapped because he had run out of time – and are applying to end his case.
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