The person who was believed to have blocked all attempts of Prince Harry to reconcile with his father and brother is contemplating retiring and that according to royal experts is indeed good news for Harry. Though he is only 57, Clive Alderton, King Charles’ all-powerful private secretary and gatekeeper, is considering retirement, royal expert Tine Brown said.
Brown wrote that Harry and Alderton had a personal enmity and that dominated Alderton’s advice to King Charles to not welcome Harry back to the royal fold. The replacement of Alderton by a figure without any personal animosity with Harry could “create a new, friendlier path for negotiations with Harry”.
In his memoir Spare, Harry christened Alderton as “The Wasp” — such is the extent of their enmity.
According to reports, Harry has been trying to reconcile with his ailing father but no meeting could have been arranged between the two and experts blame Alderton for that.
“Despite the passing of years, there is still a gaping Harry-shaped hole in the depleted royal line-up. As a veteran of two military tours in Afghanistan and founder of Invictus, the substantive charity that brings hope through competitive sports events for injured vets, the Duke of Sussex, now stripped of his military honors, surely deserved a place on the balcony. The British nation needs his human touch and so does his ailing father,” Brown wrote.
What Harry wrote about ‘The Wasp’
Harry wrote The Wasp was “lanky, charming, arrogant, a ball of jazzy energy”. “He was great at pretending to be polite, even servile. You’d assert a fact, something seemingly incontrovertible—’I believe the sun rises in the mornings’—and he’d stammer that perchance you might consider for a moment the possibility that you’d been misinformed: ‘Well, heh-heh, I don’t know about that, Your Royal Highness, you see, it all depends what you mean by mornings, sir.’ Because he seemed so weedy, so self-effacing, you might be tempted to push back, insist on your point, and that was when he’d put you on his list.A short time later, without warning, he’d give you such a stab with his outsized stinger that you’d cry out in confusion. Where the f*** did that come from?” Harry wrote.
Hary will have to publicly apologize…
Prince William wants Harry to publicly apologize for the hurtful comments he made after stepping down as a senior working Royal in 2020. Harry would also likely have to drop his lawsuit against the British government for stripping him of taxpayer-funded bodyguards. On the flip side, Harry and Meghan, if taken back to the royal fold again, could be put to good use on overseas tours which kind of became embarrassments for the royals.