<\/p>\n
open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>For the seventh year running, Prince Harry will reportedly again not spend time at Sandringham for Christmas with the rest of the royal family (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner, Pool, File)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIt comes as the monarch opened up about his \u201coverwhelming\u201d personal journey with cancer in a broadcast message released on Friday. He announced that his treatment would be rolled back in the new year in what he called a \u201cpersonal blessing\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the duke is still not in touch with the Waleses, after his explosive memoir Spare detailed a number of damning allegations about the royals, including that Prince William had punched him to the floor in a fight.<\/p>\n
When it comes to the duchess\u2019s relationship with her father, a source told the newspaper that it was \u201ctoo soon to say\u201d if the life-threatening blood clot Mr Markle, 81, recently faced would lead to a family reunion, although it is unlikely in reality.<\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>Thomas Markle recently endured a life-threatening blood clot (Good Morning Britain)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nAfter life-saving surgery on the island of Cebu during which his left leg was amputated, the 81-year-old invited the US editor of the Daily Mail <\/em>to his bedside for an interview. <\/p>\nThe publication is part of the same newspaper group that Meghan defeated in a privacy case in 2021, while Harry is currently battling the group in the UK courts over alleged phone hacking. Mr Markle told the Mail on Sunday<\/em>: \u201cOf course I want to speak to her, but I am not sure if these are the right circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\nMeghan reportedly wrote her father a letter over fears that communication over the phone would be leaked to the tabloids, although a source said she no longer even has his number, and there is little hope the note will lead to anything more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are unlikely to reconcile with their sick fathers, according to reports, despite recent hints that the damaged relationships could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2197616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Harry-and-Meghan-\u2018unlikely-to-heal-damaged-relationships-with-sick-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197617,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197615\/revisions\/2197617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}