Prince Henry talks about the health of his father, Charles III, and opens the door to family reunification

Prince Harry revealed this Friday, February 16, that he is “grateful” to have been able to fly to the United Kingdom to visit his father, King Charles III, following his cancer diagnosis.

“I love my family,” he said on television.

It is the first time that the Duke of Sussex, 39, has spoken publicly about the health of the monarch, 75, since he postponed his public duties to begin treatment for his illness.

He did so in an interview for the ABC program

, where he spoke about his brief visit to London, without the company of his wife, Meghan Markle, or his children, 24 hours after the announcement of the diagnosis of the disease. of the king from Buckingham Palace on February 5.

“How did you find out?” the interviewer asks.

“Talking to him,” Enrique reveals.

He then asks her about his subsequent reaction.

“I got on a plane and went to see him as soon as I could,” he admits.

“I'm grateful to have been able to get on a plane and go see him and spend time with him,” he responds to the presenter when he asks him what that visit has meant to him on an emotional level.

Enrique, who has lived in California with Meghan Markle since 2020, flew for about 10 hours to London to see his father, in what finally turned out to be a short meeting of half an hour at Clarence House.

It was their first formal in-person meeting since Queen Elizabeth II's funeral in September 2022. The next day, the monarch's youngest son took a plane back to Los Angeles, a round trip of almost 9,000 kilometers and a fuel expense that has raised blisters in the public sphere.

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The interviewer in the new television appearance of Henry of England is Will Reeve, son of the late

actor , Christopher Reeve, who in 1995 suffered an accident in which he lost total mobility of his body.

“I have also discovered in my own life that an illness in the family can have a reunifying effect.

Is that possible in this case?” he suggests to the prince.

"Absolutely.

Yes, I'm sure.

I see it every day, in many families, the strength of the family unit that comes together.

I believe that any illness unites families,” he acknowledges.

These statements open a window to a possible reconciliation with his older brother, Prince William, with whom he has been estranged for years.

In fact, Enrique did not see him during his trip to London.

A film crew led by Reeve has been following Harry and Meghan since they flew to Canada on Tuesday for a countdown event to the Invictus Games in Whistler and Vancouver.

The full interview remains to be broadcast (it will be broadcast this afternoon), in which they announce that he will also talk about his life with Meghan and the Invictus Games.

The conversation with Reeve comes in the middle of a week of news for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, which has also caused them to be harshly criticized by defenders of British royalty.

Last Monday they launched a new website (Sussex.com), in which they use their coat of arms as dukes, something that has not gone unnoticed after they decided to stop being active members of the British royal family in 2020. Neither This has been done by the decision not to mention the Windsors in their respective biographies or to change the surnames of their children, Archie and Lilibet, to Sussex.

Last Wednesday, in addition, Meghan Markle announced the launch of a new

for the Lemonade Media platform, where she promises to “make life less stinky” with programs about sex, psychology, and LGTBI issues.