As royals remember the Queen, our experts says Charles is right NOT seeing Harry

Prince Harry’s arrival in the UK has provoked suggestions that Royal Family should make time to see their prodigal son, but to do so would be an ‘appalling idea’. That’s the view of the Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden, speaking on our royal talk show Palace Confidential.

Eden believes that on this poignant weekend, the Royals should remember how the Sussexes behaved during the last few months of the lives of the late Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.

‘While Prince Philip was dying in hospital, they went ahead with the interview with Oprah Winfrey which just caused so much anguish and anger,’ he tells Palace Confidential. 

‘And while the Queen was very frail and in increasingly poor health, they announced that [Harry] was going to do his tell-all memoir and Netflix series. It almost seemed calculated to cause them anguish.‘The idea that King Charles, while all his thoughts are about his parents and particularly his mother, should think “Oh, I’ve got to see my son who caused all this trouble” I just think it’s an appalling idea, frankly.’

The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English agrees that the timing would be wrong for any sort of reunion.‘The focus should be on Queen Elizabeth and her legacy, not the family drama,’ she tells the programme. ‘Knowing the Palace mindset as I do, I think they will just think this is the wrong time. It may be in a few weeks or a few months they might consider it, but it’s not the right time to do it now.’