Prince Harry Reportedly Being Iced Out By the Royal Family: ‘Nobody Trusts Him’

The royal family reportedly no longer “trusts” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and it’s led to them being blackballed.

“I genuinely think nobody trusts him and that’s the bottom line. The royal family has major trust issues with him and that’s what’s at the heart of everything,” a source told Page Six in an article published on Wednesday, May 7. “They don’t trust him and Meghan and that’s why they can’t have a relationship … maybe there’s room to forgive, but they won’t forget. Forgiveness and trust are two different things.”

The source continued, “Harry messaged [King] Charles and he never heard back. He wanted to talk to his dad about security stuff then, but his dad wouldn’t speak to him. He really felt like his dad could overturn things.”

Hugo Vickers, a friend of the royal family, offered more insight on the situation.

“I have total sympathy with the royal family,” Hugo told the publication. “Harry is quite like this mother [the late Princess Diana]. One day, when I was at Buckingham Palace, I was shown the letter that Prince Phillip wrote to Diana in which he said, ‘Every time Charles talks to you, it’s in the Daily Mail the next day.’”

He continued, “The same thing is happening now. Charles is, of course, right not to trust him. Harry is hopeless in that respect. He shouldn’t have given that interview — but none of the royal family should ever give interviews, it’s always a car crash.”

Harry’s ongoing feud has seemingly gotten worse in the last few weeks. The Daily Beast reported in April that Prince William wanted to strip him and Meghan, 43, of their royal highness titles. The issue was brought to the forefront after Jamie Kern Lima shared a gift from Meghan on her podcast and the Suits alum had signed the card, “With the Compliments of HRH The Duchess of Sussex.”

While Meghan’s team argued that she wasn’t breaking protocol because she had used the signature for personal purposes and not commercial, a source told the publication that it had angered William, 42.

“Charles might be happy to put up with this, but William won’t,” the insider said. “He loathes and despises Harry and Meghan with every bone in his body. He believes they have betrayed everything the family stands for and the idea that they are using their royal status as a calling card will enrage him.”

On May 2, Harry, 40, lost his final appeal to reinstate publicly funded security for himself and his family during visits to the U.K. That same day, he did an interview with the BBC that ruffled the feathers of his family members.

“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” the dad of two said.

The royal family is notoriously private and Harry revealing private details like those is incredibly uncommon, and some believe the BBC interview is what led to Charles’ silence toward his youngest son.

“The King is only hewing to a long-standing royal practice of not dignifying something by commenting on it. The Palace does not want to give oxygen to Harry’s remarks,” Christopher Andersen, a longtime chronicler of the British monarchy, told Us Weekly on Tuesday, May 6. “King Charles has a lot on his plate as it is — there is no upside to his getting into a public quarrel with his son.”