<p id=”par-1_52″>Prince Harry and his father, <a href=”https://cheatsheet.com/tag/king-charles”>King Charles</a>, have had a difficult relationship in recent years. Charles and Harry have not seen eye to eye on all of Harry’s decisions, and when Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, left the family back in 2020, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/king-charles-open-reconciliation-prince-harry-frequent-uk-visits-good-sign.html/”>Harry and Charles were hardly speaking</a> to each other.</p>
<p id=”par-2_39″>These days, Harry and Charles do have somewhat of a relationship, but it reportedly isn’t much. And when Charles was on the brink of being asked about Harry, he seemed to slide right past the idea of a conversation.</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-king-charles-didn-t-have-much-to-say-when-someone-brought-up-the-invictus-games”>King Charles didn’t have much to say when someone brought up the Invictus Games</h2>
<p id=”par-3_55″>There was a point where Charles and Harry were quite close. But when Harry started making decisions about his own life that Charles didn’t approve of, their father-son relationship fell apart. Things have since cooled off in their feud, and Harry and Charles reportedly still get along but don’t see each other or talk much.</p>
<p id=”par-4_53″>During a recent royal engagement, Charles was speaking with a veteran, and the veteran revealed that they had competed <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/2027-invictus-games-going-complicated-harry-meghan-not-just-royal-family.html/”>at the Invictus Games</a> in the past. But rather than engage in the conversation about the event, which Harry launched as his own project back in 2014, Charles responded with just one word: “Fantastic.”</p>
<p id=”par-5_63″>According to <a href=”https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2018163/king-charles-prince-harry-reunion-doubts-Invictus-games-comment”>Express</a>, royal experts Roya Nikkhah and Kate Mansey took to their podcast to discuss the situation. “Now that could have been an opportunity for the King to say, ‘Oh yes, they’re marvelous,’ or whatever that might be,” the podcasters said. “But, he just let that comment go and the conversation continued and the King didn’t pick up on that at all.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_33″>They continued, “That was an opportunity for the King to acknowledge the Invictus Games with somebody … That was quite telling; the king just sort of didn’t acknowledge the [Invictus] games at all.”</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-king-charles-and-prince-harry-might-always-have-a-strained-relationship”>King Charles and Prince Harry might always have a strained relationship</h2>
<p id=”par-7_52″>When Charles was diagnosed with cancer last year, Harry flew to the UK immediately to see his father. However, that was the only time Harry has seen Charles since. Although it’s clear that their relationship has shown some improvement since Harry’s Oprah Winfrey interview back in 2021, things aren’t going too well.</p>
<p id=”par-8_53″>There have been rumors that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/insider-reveals-king-charles-no-relationship-prince-archie-princess-lilibet.html/”>Charles has no relationship</a> with his grandchildren, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, though it’s unclear if those are true. Time will tell if Charles and Harry continue to improve their relationship, but now that five years have passed since the initial fallout, not a whole lot has changed.</p>