The first message was published early Sunday on the X platform via the royal family's official account: “We wish the Duke of Sussex a very happy birthday.”
Another, equally terse, followed, published on the X account of Prince William and his wife, Princess Kate.
According to the British media, the last message of this kind dates from 2021. The year in which Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stated in a sensational interview with the pope of the American media, Oprah Winfrey, that a member of the royal family When Meghan was pregnant, was asked what color their son Archie's skin would be.
The final blow came in early 2023 with “Spare” publication (The Substitute), the prince's uncompromising and unfiltered autobiography, highly critical of the royal family.
A sign of these tensions, the last public appearance between Prince Harry and his brother William dates from September 2022, for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
He saw his father, Charles III, very briefly last February when he was diagnosed with cancer.
“I was anxious at 30, I'm excited at 40”
“I was anxious at 30, I'm excited at 40,” the prince said in a statement to the BBC on Friday, without mentioning his family.