A heartbroken Prince Harry has said he desperately wants to reconcile with his estranged family after his bitter split with the royals.

But now, the Duke of Sussex has been warned the rapprochement he craves will not happen unless he says one simple, little word.

The 40-year-old told the world he wants to make up with the Royal Family in a bombshell BBC interview in which he also blasted courtiers for their role in downgrading his UK security. Upset at a court’s decision to reject his appeal against the removal of his high-level police protection, he lashed out and said his father, King Charles, “won’t speak to me because of this security stuff”.

David Yelland, a former editor of The Sun, who is now a public relations adviser, said Harry “used the language of trauma” in the interview and showed a “sense of entitlement that the public can see”.