Prince Harry says he's ready to reconnect with family, but King Charles 'won't speak to me'

Prince Harry says he's ready to reconnect with family, but King Charles 'won't speak to me' over security funding fight

LONDON — After losing a legal battle over his lack of publicly funded security, Prince Harry on Friday expressed a desire to rebuild his strained relationship with the Royal Family.

“I would love reconciliation with my family. ... There’s no point in continuing to fight people,” Harry told the BBC. “It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now. If they don’t want that, that’s entirely up to them.”

Harry's interview with the BBC came after he lost his appeal against the U.K. government’s decision to axe his publicly funded security detail, an issue that he says has driven a wedge between him and his father.

“He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” Harry said, adding that he didn’t know how long his father had left to live. King Charles III, from whom Harry says he is currently cut off, was diagnosed with cancer last year.

And without security, Harry said, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point.”