King Charles III wants to spend more time with his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet after meeting them just a handful of t…
King Charles III wants to spend more time with his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet after meeting them just a handful of times, an expert claimed today.
The 75-year-old monarch is understood to have told friends that he is keener than ever to build a relationship with five-year-old Archie and three-year-old Lilibet.
Charles is believed to be dissatisfied with just seeing his grandchildren on the occasional video call and now hopes to be more present in their lives.
Queen Camilla is also said to be encouraging his increased efforts, and he reportedly sent Lilibet a ‘heartfelt gift and card’ to celebrate her birthday last week.
Sources claimed the King now wants to make up for lost time, following years of tension between his son and the rest of the Royal Family which has exacerbated since the Sussexes stepped down as senior royals and moved to the US in 2020.
Royal commentator Michael Cole told MailOnline today that Charles feels the ‘lack of closeness with his California grandchildren acutely’, given his own childhood was affected by his parents’ long absences on extensive tours of the Commonwealth.
The former BBC royal correspondent said the King ‘looks as happy and as content as I have ever seen him’ but his ‘only regret is that he does not see Archie and Lilibet’.
He added that the two ‘innocent young children’ are growing up without any ‘real contact’ with the Royal Family in Britain while Charles undergoes treatment for cancer and ‘would welcome the pleasure and comfort of seeing his grandchildren’.
It is not just the 5,000 miles between Clarence House and California that keeps the monarch at a distance from his youngest grandchildren.
‘The antipathy between Prince Harry and his wife Meghan and the Royal Family has created a deep divide that makes normal family relationships so fraught as to be almost impossible.
‘And the tensions have only been increased by every harsh word written and cruel sentence uttered by the Harry and Meghan about his brother Prince William, sister-in-law Catherine and his stepmother Queen Camilla.
‘In the middle of this unedifying falling-out in the world’s most famous family are two innocent young children who are growing up without any real contact with their royal cousins in Britain, not to mention their grandfather, the head of the family, the King, as he undergoes treatment for an unspecified cancer and would welcome the pleasure and comfort of seeing his grandchildren.’
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