Zara Tindall says the royal family is just like any other, and sometimes that means not everyone gets along.
While speaking at the London Sporting Club on Thursday, May 8, Tindall told The Sun, “It is very hard to see from the outside but, 100 percent, it is a family that is still going through the same struggles other people do.”
“Whether they are relationships, obviously it is very easy to see every day. We’re still very supportive of each other,” she added.
The royal family remains fractured following Prince Harry’s interview with the BBC earlier this month. King Charles III was given a “very brief” heads up the interview would air, claimed Hello! Magazine’s Emily Nash.
“There was a very brief awareness-raising at the palace shortly before it [was] broadcast,” Nash claimed on the “A Right Royal Podcast” on Friday, May 9. “What I understand is that there were, potentially, discussions that might have happened as a result of the case now having been concluded.”
Nash also said King Charles continues to assert that “he could [not] have these conversations” about Prince Harry’s security trial because it “put him in a really difficult, and potentially unconstitutional, situation.”
“He couldn’t be seen to intervene on his son’s behalf or get involved in government matters,” Nash added. “His son is suing His Majesty’s government, you know he needed to stay right out of this situation.”
Harry has stated that he is open to reconciling with his family after losing his legal appeal for government-funded security in the United Kingdom. Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have been fighting to regain security since stepping down as senior royals in 2020.
Nash also said that any reconciliation that might have been on the table was trashed after Harry participated in the BBC interview, which aired on May 2. “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry said. “Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has.”
Royal expert Christopher Andersen told Us Weekly exclusively that Harry’s comment on his father’s health likely did not help the situation. (The king has been battling an undisclosed form of cancer since early 2024.)
“He slams his father for interfering in the trial, then says the Palace rigged the outcome, then accuses the Royal Family of not caring about the safety of his wife and children, and winds up declaring that for now he can’t foresee any scenario in which he would take his family to the U.K.,” Andersen, who has written several books about the royal family, continued. “Harry delivered the coup de grace when he said he wanted to bury the hatchet with his father because he doesn’t know how much time the King has left to live.”
