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The Mail on Sunday’s Editor at Large, Charlotte Griffiths, disclosed on its front page this week that King Charles and Prince Harry’s senior aides had held a secret peace summit, marking the first significant move towards resolving their rancorous family feud.
But friends of Prince William and Catherine tell me they were not aware of the meeting, which was attended by the King’s communications secretary Tobyn Andreae and Meredith Maines, Harry and Meghan’s chief communications officer.
Also present was Liam Maguire, who runs the Sussexes’ PR team in Britain.
‘It’s no coincidence that William and Catherine did not have a representative at the Royal Over-Seas League,’ one of their friends says of the club where the meeting was held.
‘They were not asked to send anyone and will be treating the talks with extreme caution.
The fact that it ended up in the newspapers tells you all you need to know.’
This refers to one of the biggest obstacles in the way of a ‘rapprochement process’ – the complete loss of trust.
Harry and Meghan’s decision to betray William and Catherine by disclosing private conversations and incidents has destroyed trust between them.
Trust and loyalty have always been the most important qualities that William expected from friends.
For his brother and sister-in-law to betray that trust in the most public way is something that he will never forget, even if he does eventually forgive them.
And forgiveness must, of course, be accompanied by repentance, of which there is little sign in Montecito, California.
The Sussexes have never apologised, either privately or publicly, for the hurt they caused with their explosive claims in the Oprah interview or on several other occasions.
There will be no ‘olive branches’ offered, or meetings at private members’ clubs between aides, until William and Catherine receive apologies from the Sussexes.
Frankly, that’s the least they deserve.
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The shock report that Prince Harry’s media team were having peace talks with King Charles’s team has our panel divided.
The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden thinks it’s a terrible idea, particularly as they have excluded Prince William’s household from discussions, while the Mail on Sunday’s Charlotte Griffiths – who revealed the peace talks – thinks they should go ahead for the good of the nation. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
The team also discuss Harry’s Diana-inspired trip to Angola to visit a landmine charity.Also on the show, our panel discuss Catherine’s emotional appearance at Wimbledon along side William, George and Charlotte.
PLUS was Princess Diana JEALOUS of Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh?!
AND don’t miss our birthday montage dedicated to Queen Camilla, Happy Birthday, Your Majesty!
Just click the video above to watch.
REVEALED: The secret Harry peace summit
The Mail on Sunday exclusively reveals that King Charles and Prince Harry’s senior aides held a secret peace summit, marking the first significant move towards resolving their rancorous family feud.
Sussexes ‘frustrated by peace summit pictures’
Duke and Duchess of Sussex deny leaking details of the rendezvous between their chief of communications and King Charles’s communications secretary in London.
DON’T BE NERVOUS! Wimbledon mascot Lydia serves up ace advice for Kate
Lydia Lowe, eight, who had to learn to walk, talk and eat again following a brain injury, tells Princess of Wales ‘don’t be nervous’ as the royal returns to Wimbledon for the first time since beating cancer.
Since Harry can’t be trusted, you have to ask yourself: What are his real motives?
King Charles can’t just allow Prince Harry to waltz back in to the fold without acknowledging how destructive and hurtful his behaviour has been towards his brother and his brother’s wife, writes Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Vine.
Harry to take landmine walk in Diana’s footsteps
Duke of Sussex to walk across a landmine field in Angola, just as his mother Princess Diana did 28 years ago for the Halo Trust, of which Harry is patron.
Royal Mail! Charles’ visit for Holocaust survivor’s 100th
King Charles secretly visits house in north London to present a card to cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the last remaining survivor of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Read the story from my social diary, Eden Confidential, which is published every day from Tuesday to Saturday.
TENNIS FANS! Charlotte and Kate cool off at Wimbledon final
Princess of Wales and daughter Charlotte cool off with handheld fans as they watch Jannik Sinner blaze his way to victory in the men’s singles final at Wimbledon.
Why Diana called Sophie Miss Goody Two Shoes – and reduced her to floods of tears by staring malevolently at her over dinner
Princess Diana was not happy that ‘commoner’ Sophie Rhys-Jones, now Duchess of Edinburgh, might succeed where she, an authentic aristocrat, had so abjectly failed, a new biography suggests.
Sophie longed to be a mother but she nearly paid with her life… TWICE
At 34, Prince Edward’s wife knew her biological clock was ticking so was overjoyed when she became pregnant. What followed, a dramatic new book reveals, was truly terrifying.
