The relationship between Prince Harry and King Charles is still a stranded one. The two have met during a handful of occasions since Harry’s departure from his homeland, but it wasn’t enough for the two to finally make amends.

However, rumors are that the “path” of reconciliation between the father and son may come sooner than expected if one person, the King’s right-hand man, retires early as he’s said to have planned.

King Charles’ Private Secretary, Sir Clive Alderton, who is known as a ‘hatchet man’ for his immense ability to deliver bad news, seems to be standing on Harry’s way to mend things with the rest of the royals.

Prince Harry and King Charles

Who is Sir Clive Alderton?

In his memoir, Spare, Harry referred to his father’s most trusted man as of “weedy” and “arrogant.”

“The Wasp [Sir Clive] was lanky, charming, arrogant, a ball of jazzy energy. He was great at pretending to be polite, even servile,” the Prince wrote.

“Because he seemed so weedy, so self-effacing, you might be tempted to push back, insist on your point, and that was when he’d put you on his list.

“A short time later, without warning, he’d give you such a stab with his outsized stinger that you’d cry out in confusion. Where the f*** did that come from?”

Sir Clive Alderton

Can Prince Harry and King Charles restore their bond entirely?

Princess Diana’s biographer Tina Brown is the one who believes Sir Alderton’s potential retirement could bring positive changes.

“If Alderton goes, it could create a new, friendlier path for negotiations with Harry to be given the security protection he seeks and to resume some curtailed version of his royal duties,” she wrote on her Fresh Hell Substack blog, Express reported.

“It could also represent a great face-saver for Meghan who must realise by now that the dull demands of second-division royalty are less onerous than grinding out serial rebranding flops.

“Enough with the feuds. Families, including this one, need to stick together. William, whatever his abiding resentments toward Harry for his intemperate broadsides in Spare, should now suck it up and let his father give Harry something to do.”

The Royal Family describes Sir Clive Alderton as ‘the channel of communication between the Head of State and the Government.’

He was the one who advised then-prince Charles to hurry and be by his mother’s bedside during the final hours of her life. As per the Mirror, he’s also the man behind the famous phrase ‘some recollections may vary’ following Meghan Markle’s accusations of racism within the Firm.