SPARE US, HARRY!! You want peace with your father and your brother, so naturally you went to GQ?!?! Asked whether he grieves his relationships with the King and William, the Duke of Sussex replied: "Some people don't want it to work out. I want it to work out." Reconciling, he said, is "the most important thing". Some people. He was asked about exactly two people. Within hours his spokesman was insisting it was no swipe at his brother or anyone else in the family. THEN WHO, PRAY?!? The question named two men, and he answered it. And the olive branch came with conditions attached. "I can respect them if they respect me and our position," Harry said. "Our position is really quite clear now." Respect on his terms, offered to the Sovereign through an American glossy. Think about how this "reconciliation" is actually being run. A memoir. A plea for peace in a television interview in May 2025. Now another, on camera, in New York. In the very same sitting he explained why he keeps talking: he would rather put things out himself than leave it to "the machine", and he complained that he has been "really criticized for telling my story”. Oh and we are still waiting for such a reconciliation among the Markles, except they cannot provide the coaches and castles. So the man who says healing the rift matters more than anything has a standing policy of narrating it. Every private word his father or brother offers now carries an obvious question. Will it turn up in the next interview? Trust is not something you can ask for through a lens. Each new camera he sits in front of shuts the door he claims to want open. Even his interviewer seemed unmoved. When Harry explained he wanted no sympathy "because I'm a prince", the reply came back: "So?" His camp says the interview was recorded in late September, that GQ alone chose the release date, and that nothing should be read into the timing. Yes, still, it landed on the very day his family welcomed the Sultan of Oman. Look at what that family did with the day. A carriage procession through Windsor. A Guard of Honour. That evening, a state banquet for 160 in St George's Hall, where the King praised Oman's efforts to keep the Strait of Hormuz open while war rages with Iran. He singled out William's work alongside the Sultan's son. Catherine, radiant, was there for the welcome and the banquet. Harry did not rate a mention in the speech. He is not a working royal. This morning the King, Queen and Prince of Wales were in Aberfan, sixty years to the day since a colliery tip buried Pantglas Junior School and killed 116 children and 28 adults. The King and William laid wreaths. The Queen placed a posy. Then they went on to meet survivors and bereaved families. That is duty and dignity. Compare it to the Sussex circus. His father and brother spent this week working. Harry's contribution was a chat for his own benefit with GQ.