THE Queen tried to get Prince Harry and his father on speaking terms in her final months after Prince Charles stopped taking his phone calls begging for cash, sources tell The Sun.
Harry, 37, is said to have “bombarded” his grandmother with calls when she was put on light duties due to her worsening mobility.
AlamyThe Queen tried to broker a peace deal with Prince Harry in her final months after Charles stopped taking his calls[/caption]
GettyAn insider said: ‘The late Queen was always happy to speak with Harry but when he asked for money she said ‘why don’t you speak to your father?’[/caption]
The Mega AgencyHarry and Meg claim to be financially independent after quitting royal duty to live in America[/caption]
Her Majesty — who stepped back from major duties leaving Charles to take on running most affairs after the death of her husband Prince Philip — was unable and unwilling to deal with Harry’s requests, it is claimed.
And when she asked her son and heir to the throne why he was accepting emails and not phone calls from Harry, Charles is said to have replied: “Because I am not a bank.”
An insider revealed: “The late Queen was always happy to speak with Harry but when he asked for money she said, ‘Why don’t you speak to your father?’
“Harry told her that Charles wasn’t taking his calls any more.
“Charles insisted that his son must email him instead. Members of the family, including William, had stopped speaking to Harry when they learned of his book deal, fearing what they said could end up in print.
“Harry is not as well off as people are led to believe. He was wanting money.
“When the Queen asked Charles what he was doing about it because she was fielding so many calls, he told her, ‘I’m not a bank’.
The Sun understands Charles, then Prince of Wales, asked his son to put in requests via email through his personal assistant.
The news comes after claims of fraught phone calls between father and son during Megxit talks.
Sources close to Charles insist “he loves both of his sons dearly”.
Harry and Meghan claim to be financially independent after quitting royal duty to live in America where they have struck multi-million pound deals with Netflix and Spotify.
Harry got an advance of £17.5million for the memoir Spare which is out on January 10 — as part of a £35million four-book deal.
He also supposedly has a job as a Chief Impact Officer for Silicon Valley firm Better Up.
But he blasted his father in the Oprah Winfrey interview in March 2020, claiming he had “literally been cut off financially”.
This is despite palace financial records showing his dad giving him £2million in the 2020/21 financial year.
But the latest papers show Charles paid no money from the Duchy of Cornwall funds in the past year.
Now he is King, he has access to vast sums of money via the Duchy of Lancaster private estate, while William holds the purse strings to the Duchy of Cornwall.
But Harry and Meghan have spiralling costs including paying security guards, honouring their $9.5million mortgage in Montecito and a preference for private jets.
Speaking in March, Harry claimed on US breakfast TV he regularly speaks to his grandmother.
He said: “We have a really special relationship. We talk about things that she can’t talk about with anybody else.”
A spokesman for Charles this summer said Harry and Meghan were “financially independent” and said: “Great credit to them.”
The Royal Family were rocked this week when Netflix released a 60-second trailer for the couple’s six-part docuseries called Harry & Meghan.
Insiders believe the trailer was deliberately aired to sabotage or ambush the Prince and Princess of Wales’s three-day trip to Boston this week.
William and Kate are there for his £50million Earthshot Prize funding schemes from around the world to help save the planet.
A Tory MP has branded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “pathetic” after their Netflix attack on the Royals.
Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely even threatened to use backbench legislation to strip Harry’s titles so he would be “Mr Windsor”.
He told TalkTV: “I don’t know what’s gone wrong in their lives, I just think they’re this pathetic, narcissistic, selfindulgent pair, they’re dreadful.
“Why on earth we allow him to keep his titles if he hates this country and hates the monarchy?”
“If I had time I’d be bringing in a private members Bill to say if you want to hate monarchy you’re Mr Windsor — jog on, grow up.”
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