Will Prince Harry get credit for refusing to share king’s health info?

With his interview with Good Morning America Friday, Prince Harry has already been accused of exploiting King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis for positive headlines about himself.

During Harry’s visit to Canada to prepare for the 2025 Invictus Games, the California-based renegade royal talked to GMA about family reconciliation and even revealed that he has considered becoming a U.S. citizen.

But it remains to be seen whether the younger son of King Charles will get some credit for not going into detail about what he and his father discussed during their short meeting last week. That’s when Harry garnered a fair number of headlines — positive and negative — after he jumped on a plane and flew all the way from California to London to see his father after learning about his cancer diagnosis. Critics accused Harry of pulling a publicity stunt with his mad “dash” to London to see his father for what turned out to be a half-hour meeting.

With Good Morning America, Harry tried to come off as uplifting and surprisingly circumspect on some issues.

“Look, I love my family,” Harry told GMA presenter Will Reeve. “The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go and see him and spend any time with him, I’m grateful for that.”

When Reeve asked Harry about the “outlook” on his father’s health, Harry declined to share any information. In what some would say was a rare moment of discretion, Harry said that his father’s health stays “between me and him.”

But he added, “I’ve got other trips planned that will take me through the U.K., or back to the U.K., and so I’ll stop in and see my family as much as I can.”

For royal observers, Harry’s refusal to say more about what he and his father discussed could be seen as  a sign that the Duke of Sussex has finally absorbing some lessons from the furor he unleashed last year when his memoir “Spare” described a number of private moments with the king.

Notably, Harry devoted a chapter to a contentious “secret” meeting  he had with his father and brother, Prince William, after he traveled to the U.K. in 2021 to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip. As Harry wrote in “Spare,” the meeting took place in the royal burial ground near Windsor Castle and Harry’s former UK residence, Frogmore Cottage.

Harry tried to “explain my side of things” in his estrangement from his relatives, which dates back to his marriage to Meghan Markle and their acrimonious departure from royal life in 2020. But after William, with his “scowl” and “alarming baldness,” tried to “shut” him down several times, Harry said that he and his brother began sniping.

“It got so heated that Pa raised his hands. Enough!” Harry wrote. Charles, standing between his sons, then said, “Please, boys—don’t make my final years a misery.”

The Daily Mail reported that Harry’s declarations of family love to GMA could have been part of his effort to extend an “olive branch” to his estranged relatives. Indeed, he didn’t say anything negative about them or the monarchy, as he did in “Spare” and in various interviews, including with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.

Moreover, Harry expressed hope for a reconciliation. He did so when Reeve, the son of “Superman actor Christopher Reeve, made an apparent references to his late father’s paralysis, saying, “I’ve also found in my own life that sort of an illness in the family can have a galvanizing or a sort of reunifying effect for a family. Is that possible in this case?”

Harry replied: “Absolutely. Yeah, I’m sure. Throughout all these (Invictus) families I see it on a day-to-day basis, again, the strength of the family unit coming together. I think any illness, any sickness brings families together.”

But even with such seemingly kind and not-too-revealing comments, Harry already is being criticized by some friends of the royal family, especialy in regards to what he said about his father, the Daily Beast reported.