Royal historian Robert Hardman tells PEOPLE that Queen Elizabeth truely hoped fissures should be fixed.
Queen Elizabeth's hope in no way waned that strained members of the family may want to be relieved within the royal family.
In this week's PEOPLE cover story, historian Robert Hardman says that the late monarch would have hoped that her grandson Prince Harry should restore his relationship with his father, King Charles III, and older brother, Prince William.
"The Queen loved Harry proper to the end, and Harry loved her," the writer of Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II says of the distinct bond Harry and his grandmother shared. "I think she was one of the conduits between Windsor and California, and it would have been one of her dearest wishes that they patch things up."
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have turn out to be far away from different family participants in latest years. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped lower back from their senior royal roles in early 2020 and have resided in Meghan's domestic kingdom of California since.
Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, had been in Europe for a collection of charity visits when Queen Elizabeth "peacefully" died at age 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, hours after her doctors publicly introduced they had been "concerned" for her health. The California couple remained in the U.K. for the Queen's funerary events for the following two weeks and traveled again to U.S. after the funeral.
Now, these shut to the King and Queen Camilla hope, for the sake of the new reign if now not salvaging family ties, that Prince William and Prince Harry will reconcile.
"You'd assume that all participants of the family would unite and help the King, especially," a supply shut to King Charles tells PEOPLE. "Perhaps some wounds can be healed in the process." It would probably have been Queen Elizabeth's demise wish.
"She knew that conflicts were a section of life, and she didn't preserve grudges. Most of all, she desired to see her family happy," the insider adds.
Samantha Cohen, the Queen's former assistant private secretary, attended Queen Elizabeth's committal service at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on Monday. She tells PEOPLE that the royals "looked tired" as the gravity of the grief sooner or later hit.
"It was a shock, and now it is real. And the actual mourning starts," Cohen says. "The reality of existence besides the Queen begins now."
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