Prince Harry and Father King Charles III’s Ups and Downs Through the Years: A Timeline
usmagazine.comWhen Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down from their positions as senior working royals, the duke’s relationship with father King Charles III soon dissipated.“My family literally cut me off financially, and I [needed to be able to] afford security for us,” the Duke of Sussex alleged in his bombshell CBS interview in March 2021. “[I was cut off] in the first quarter of 2020.
But I’ve got what my mom [Princess Diana, who died in August 1997] left me and without that, we would not have been able to do this.”Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, who wed in May 2018, had been living off an income provided by the English crown — which Charles controlled.
After the married couple decided to take a step back from their royal duties, His Majesty was also reluctant to speak to them.“[He stopped] because, by that point, I took matters into my own hands,” Harry said during the tell-all interview. “It was like, ‘I need to do this for my family.’ This is not a surprise to anybody.
It’s really sad that it’s gotten to this point, but I’ve got to do something for my own mental health, my wife’s and for Archie’s, as well, because I could see where this was headed.”He continued: “I will always love him, but there’s a lot of hurt that’s happened.
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