A royal expert has claimed that Prince Harry ‘would have been good to play his part in the Royal Family’ after the Princess of Wales was taken into hospital earlier in the week.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex took a step back from their royal duties and moved to the US in January 2020.
After the Princess of Wales was taken to the hospital for abdominal surgery, a royal expert urged the Prince to return to the UK.
Former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole told GB News: “I’ve seen him from the time he was a little boy, the day he went to nursery school for the first time with his mother and came out with his finger puppet to take home to show his mother afterward.
Prince Harry has been urged to return to the UK
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“I’ve seen him on his first holidays abroad with his family. Of course, we’ve seen him grow up. And let us remember that, the happy Prince.
“Let us remember the Prince we admired for doing two tours of arduous duty in Afghanistan. He was extraordinarily popular.
“Then it all went sideways and they scooted off, first of all to Canada and then to California.
“So it is very sad to see it brought to this particular stage.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to the US
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“Then it all went sideways and they scooted off, first of all to Canada and then to California.
“So it is very sad to see it brought to this particular stage.
“He has said in recent days that he misses Britain, that he misses his friends, he misses the sport, he misses the camaraderie, he misses a lot about this country. And in a way, I think we miss him.
“With recent events, both the Princess of Wales in hospital and the King going into hospital, it would have been very important for him to pick up some slack here and play his full part in the Royal Family.”
Prince Harry “misses the UK”
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“And you know, never say never, the prodigal son is always welcome. I can’t imagine what was going through his mind when he heard that his sister-in-law, about whom he’s been rather unkind In his book Spare, had gon into hospital.
“It’s quite clearly not a trivial thing. It’s not a minor matter. I don’t think we’ve exaggerated the seriousness of it all.
“Staying in hospital for two weeks, which doesn’t happen these days.
“Usually doctors, as soon as you’re ambulatory on your feet, they send you home. So we don’t know. It is all the greatest pity and it doesn’t have to happen.”
