Prince Harry wants to reconcile with family following return to U.K.

Prince Harry wants to reconcile with his father King Charles III and his brother Prince William following his return to the U.K.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved back to the U.K. in August with their two children after six years living in California.

Now he's back on home soil, the royal hopes to repair his relationship with his father and brother.

"Some people don't want it to work out. I want it to work out. With everything else that's going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile - that's the key point," he told GQ in his first major interview since the move. "Scars stick around forever. But what your perception is, and what your mindset is to those things that have happened, letting go of the past.

"That's something that I would encourage everybody to do: If there's certain things from the past that are still affecting you every day, that's harder to let go of. But, for me, there's enough drama in the world and enough drama in people's lives to continue with issues with family."

The rift within the royal family deepened in 2020 after Harry and his wife Meghan stepped back as working royals and moved to California. He lifted the lid on their strained relationship and made explosive claims in his 2023 memoir Spare, a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and a 2022 Netflix docuseries, among other public appearances.

Harry explained that they returned due to "opportunities for the family" and because it "meant a lot" to have their children Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, experience the British school system.

The Duke, who has waged several legal battles against the U.K. press in recent years, noted that his attitude towards his home country had changed.

"I think once you've been through it, once you've been able to talk about it, and raise awareness to it, then people see it for what it is, it makes the environment slightly easier. It's not going to necessarily stop the behaviour, but I think the behaviour might - my hope that it will - change," he said.

"What happened back then was then. What's happened over that over the last six years has been a continuation of that. Some battles that had been fought - and necessarily so. With everything else that's going on in the world, there's aspects of the past that I'm sure all of us - me, my family, and some of the British press - that we'd all like to leave behind us and work for the greater good."