Prince Harry Says King Charles Won't Speak To Him

"I don't know how much longer my father has," the Duke of Sussex said of Charles, who was diagnosed with cancer last year.

In a vulnerable sit-down interview, Prince Harry told the BBC on Friday that King Charles won’t speak to him, but he’s hopeful for reconciliation while his father is still alive.

“I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” the Duke of Sussex said of the 76-year-old king, who has undergone cancer treatment and was briefly hospitalized in March.

The interview aired the same day Harry lost his appeal challenging the U.K. government’s decision to strip him of his publicly funded security after he stepped back from his royal duties and relocated his family to the United States. Private security guards may not carry guns in the U.K., and Harry previously lost in his bid to pay for police protection himself.

“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” he said. “The things that they’re going to miss is, well, everything. I love my country ... despite what some people in that country have done ... and I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.” He added that he’s “devastated” by the court’s decision.

Harry said he believes it’s within his father’s powers to rectify the security situation, which the duke’s lawyers argued in court last month puts his life in danger.