Prince Harry Finds an Unexpected Royal Ally Amid Family Rift — He's 'Suffered So Much'

The tide is starting to turn in the royal family rift, and Prince Harry is getting support from unexpected places.

Belgium’s Princess Delphine offered up her thoughts on the situation on the July 15 episode of the It’s Reigning Men podcast — and it sounds like some royals are tired of King Charles III and Prince William icing the Duke of Sussex out.

“They lost such an important figure [with Princess Diana’s death], and I feel very sorry for Harry because I think that was traumatic for him,” she shared. “I think Harry suffered so much, and I think he was traumatized, and it’s coming out now. I think there is this thing with security, I think it’s to do with what happened to his mother.”

She wasn’t done, though; Delphine empathizes with how Harry has been left to figure life out on his own.

“I understand the guy,” the royal added. “He’s just traumatized. He’s doing these things, and everybody’s bullying him, but not thinking about his trauma, and I just find it terrible because I feel like he’s just been kind of left.”

There appears to be some movement in the family feud after the Sussexes’ chief communications officer, Meredith Maines, and their PR representative in the U.K., Liam Maguire, met with the monarch’s communications secretary, Tobyn Andreae, last week in London. The royal peace talks come after Harry admitted to the BBC in May that he “would love a reconciliation” with his dad and older brother because he did “not know how much longer [his] father has.”

While the negotiations appear to be in the early stages of discussion, Delphine understands what it’s like to be a palace outsider. She learned that her father was King Albert II of Belgium at the age of 18, but a lengthy legal battle and a confirmed January 2020 DNA test gave her the right to a royal title. Now, at the age of 57, the Belgian royal family regularly includes her in public appearances.

It’s unclear when the British royal family might be reunited, but a People source described it as a “good first step.” And now that there is some public pressure coming from another royal family, it might push King Charles in the right direction.

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