Prince Harry ‘willing to take temporary royal role while King is ill’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The details of the Clarence House meeting and subsequent conversations are private, but the feeling is that this arrangement could work.” open image in gallery Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, talks with skeleton athletes during an Invictus Games training camp A written plan would need to be drawn up by the King and his aides before Harry could return to any official duties and would not receive public funds, the newspaper said. Harry also said “I love my family” and that he was “grateful” to be able to spend time with his father when he flew back to the UK last week. In the interview, aired on Good Morning America, it was suggested a family illness could have a “reunifying effect”, and when Harry was asked “is that possible in this case?” he replied: “Yeah, I’m sure.” The duke and his wife Meghan are in Canada staging a number of events with Invictus competitors to mark a year to go until Harry’s Invictus Games, for wounded and sick veterans and military, is staged in the country. “I think any illness, any sickness brings families together.” Buckingham Palace has not given details about Charles’s cancer and Harry declined to divulge any information when asked about his “outlook” on the King’s health, replying: “That stays between me and him.” But he said he would be visiting his father in the future, adding: “I’ve got other trips planned that would take me through the UK or back to the UK, so I’ll stop in and see my family as much as I can.” There was no meeting between the duke and his brother, the Prince of Wales, last Tuesday after Harry spent time with Charles at Clarence House.