There was a royal correspondent from The Times on GMB and she reported that the King felt tired following "a procedure" on Monday, hence the short meeting with Harry. Which reading between the lines would indicate that he hadn't expected Harry to come or made plans in his diary to see him...
There was obviously no communication. The media has shaped this visit as if H were a loving, worried son and KC was eager to have him here. But the few facts we know do not bear this out.
Suppose you and your child hsd exactly these circumstances. You call to tell him the news. You tell him you are going to your vacation home to recuperate. He says he is coming to see you. The most vital part of the conversation would be WHEN. When are you arriving?
The fact that there was an entourage for H means that his flight details were known. Arrangements were made for him. But they were also made for KC snd QC. So why was the helicopter and the car ordered for so close a time…to only allow for the shortest of visits?
I have read that KC likes to avoid difficult situations. I dont think he wanted this visit. Catering to Harry might well upset Camilla and certainly POW. But H’s PR had forced him to, at the least, have some public pretense of a meeting…so not to be the bad guy in the narrative.
But he had his escape route…the car and the helicopter…at the ready. This ‘visit’ may not have even been 45 minutes…it could have been much shorter.
Harry has no comfort to bring his father. Whether he was seeking gossip to sell, money, or a PR moment…the human part of KC knows it wasn’t about love for him. The man has cancer and being used for mercenary purposes by his grifter son and daughter-in-law must hurt. But it also would put the final ‘nail in the coffin’.for the relationship, if it were me.
I think he made it very clear by the quick exit…that there would be no reconciliation, only the courtesy one affords a forced meeting with a business associate. No love involved at all.
