{"id":84290,"date":"2026-04-25T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/does-prince-harry-identify-as-working-royal-after-drama\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:32:50","slug":"does-prince-harry-identify-as-working-royal-after-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/does-prince-harry-identify-as-working-royal-after-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Prince Harry Identify as Working Royal After Drama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">It turns out that <b>Prince Harry <\/b>believes he\u2019s still deeply embedded in royal history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNo, I will always be part of the royal family,\u201d Harry, 41, told <span class=\"s1\">ITV News<\/span> on Friday, April 24, when asked whether he identifies with the label \u201cnot a working royal\u201d six years after stepping back from his official duties. \u201cI\u2019m here [in Ukraine with the Halo Trust] working and doing the very thing that I was born to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cI enjoy it, and I enjoy doing it. I enjoy being able to do these trips and come and support the people that I\u2019ve met before, the friends that I\u2019ve made and, hopefully, bringing attention to issues that, for one reason or another, drop out of the news because something else has popped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Harry and his wife, <b>Meghan Markle<\/b>, stepped down from their positions as senior working royals in 2020 in order to pursue a more private life across the pond in California. (Harry and Meghan, 44, live in Montecito with kids Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everything-Prince-Harry-Has-Said-About-Reconciling-With-Royal-Family-\u2018Forgiveness-Is-100-Percent-a-Possibility-891.jpg?crop=0px%2C68px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Everything Prince Harry Has Said About Reconciling With Royal Family- \u2018Forgiveness Is 100 Percent a Possibility\u2019 - 891 Christmas Day church service, Sandringham, Norfolk, UK - 25 Dec 2017\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everything-Prince-Harry-Has-Said-About-Reconciling-With-Royal-Family-\u2018Forgiveness-Is-100-Percent-a-Possibility-891.jpg?quality=62&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Prince Harry\u2019s Quotes About Reconciling With Royal Family Amid Feud<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPrince Harry has been vocal about a possible reconciliation with his family after stepping back from his royal duties in 2020. The Invictus Games founder seemingly sparked a family feud when he and wife Meghan Markle left England and relocated to the United States. The move came shortly after the couple, who share son Archie [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe U.K. is my home and a place that I love. That will never change,\u201d Harry said <span class=\"s1\">during a Sentabale fundraiser<\/span> in January 2020. \u201cI\u2019ve grown up feeling supported by so many of you and I\u2019ve watched as you welcomed Meghan with open arms as you saw me find the love and happiness that I\u2019d hoped for all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He added at the time, \u201cThe decision I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly. It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges and I know I haven\u2019t always gotten it right but as far as this goes there really was no other option. What I want to make clear is, we\u2019re not walking away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Harry stressed that he didn\u2019t want to \u201cwalk away\u201d from community outreach, he and Meghan wanted a \u201cmore peaceful life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Harry and Meghan\u2019s move soon spurned a rift between the duke\u2019s father, <b>King Charles<\/b>, and older brother <b>Prince William.<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI want a family, not an institution. \u2026 They\u2019ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,\u201d Harry claimed <span class=\"s1\">in a 2023 interview with ITV<\/span>. \u201cI would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Where-Do-Harry-and-Meghan-Stand-With-the-Rest-of-the-Royal-Family.jpg?crop=0px%2C39px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Where Do Harry and Meghan Stand With the Rest of the Royal Family\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Where-Do-Harry-and-Meghan-Stand-With-the-Rest-of-the-Royal-Family.jpg?quality=70&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Where Harry and Meghan Stand With Each Member of the Royal Family<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFollowing their shocking step away from their senior royal duties in March 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have distanced themselves from their relatives across the pond. Nearly one year after their initial step away, Buckingham Palace confirmed in February 2021 that Harry and the Suits alum were not going to return as working royals. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Harry, who started making gains in his relationship with 77-year-old Charles amid the king\u2019s 2024 cancer battle, has also remained focused on his advocacy efforts. The Duke of Sussex stressed on Friday that he is \u201cgrateful\u201d that the ITV crew was \u201chere telling these stories that so desperately need to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI understand focus will shift to different places, but ultimately, what I see, what I hear and what I learn is that the vast majority of people, whether you\u2019re in the U.K. or whether you\u2019re anywhere else in the world want to see proper leadership,\u201d the prince stated. \u201cThey want to see an end to these conflicts, whether that\u2019s through diplomacy [or] however we can bring these conflicts to an end for the sake of everybody now [and] also for the future of younger generations coming through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Prince Harry believes he\u2019s still deeply embedded in royal history. \u201cNo, I will always be part of the royal family,\u201d Harry, 41, told ITV News on Friday, April 24, when asked whether he identifies with the label \u201cnot a working royal\u201d six years after stepping back from his official duties. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Prince-Harry-GettyImages-2271003965.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}