King Charles will be joined by senior royals, military veterans and large crowds to witness the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

The celebrations, involving a grand military parade and a flypast, will begin on Monday when London’s famous Big Ben clock strikes midday and extracts from British war leader Winston Churchill’s VE Day speech will be read out.

More than 1,300 members of Britain’s armed forces will then process through central London from outside parliament to Buckingham Palace, watched by the king, Queen Camilla, Prince William and his wife Kate along with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and veterans of the conflict.

Ukrainian armed forces will also take part to show Britain’s support for its war against Russia.

As the procession concludes, there will be a flypast by historic military aircraft and the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows aerobatics display team, watched by the royals from the balcony of Buckingham palace.

The royals will then host about 50 veterans and others who lived through the war for a tea party inside the palace.

King Charles would speak to Prince Harry if not for the fear of a “private and delicate” conversation ending up on a news special “within hours”, a close friend of the King has said.

Speaking to the Times, the friend accused Harry of seeing “conspiracy every time a decision doesn’t go in his direction”.

They added: “He is like a gambler in a casino who can’t walk away — he just doubles down. Even when he speaks of reconciliation, it is laced with threats and anger.

“It’s not that the King won’t speak to him — it’s that he can’t. How can you have a private and delicate conversation when you know it is going to end up on a news special within hours?

“Perhaps if he tried to earn rather than demand a reconciliation, things might go a little better for him. It’s just very tragic.”

During his bombshell BBC interview, Prince Harry spoke out against the committee responsible for keeping senior royals safe – the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec).

The committee decided he would not automatically receive comprehensive security when in the UK after he stepped down from royal duties.

But Prince Harry claimed the decision was made without carrying out a full review into the threats he faced.

He told the interviewer his “jaw hit the floor” when he discovered a representative of the Royal Household sits on the Ravec committee.

He claimed that enabled it to influence what security members of the Royal Family get.

The security risks still remain the same regardless of whether he is carrying out his royal duties or not, Prince Harry explained.

He said: “My status hasn’t changed. It can’t change. I am who I am.”

“I am part of what I’m part of, and I can never escape that. My circumstances will always be the same.”

“I was born into these risks, they’ve only increased over time,” he added.

The Duke of Sussex revealed there has been many disagreements between himself and his family – but he said he has forgiven them.

In the interview with the BBC he said: “There’s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious.”

It comes after he stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and moved to California with his wife Megan Markle.

Commenting after the BBC interview, Buckingham Palace said: “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”

The Duke of Sussex said there is “no way to win this through the courts”, and said he would not be taking the legal challenge against the government to the Supreme Court.

In the BBC interview he said: “I don’t want any battles to continue.

“There is way too much suffering and way too much conflict in the world.”

But he did call on the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary to intervene in how decisions are made by Ravec.

He said: “I’d ask the prime minister to step in. I would ask Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, to look at this very, very carefully.

“And I would ask her to review Ravec and its members… because if it is an expert body, then what is the royal household’s role there if it isn’t to influence and decide what they want for the members of their household?”

The Duke of Sussex has lost an appeal against a ruling related to the level of taxpayer-funded security he receives while he is in the UK.

The legal battle started in 2020 and ended with the High Court decision in a ruling on Friday.

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A palace insider has claimed that Queen Elizabeth, would have been “horrified” by it all.

When the Duke of Sussex spoke in his BBC interview about King Charles refusing to talk with him over the security dispute, the palace reacted with contempt.

The royal source told ITV News: “For a son who claims to want a family reconciliation, it’s certainly a very curious way to build bridges or offer olive branches.”

“As for their being no contact, well he has just proven why, yet again”, a royal insider said. “There is nothing that can be trusted to remain private.”

Prince Harry’s troubled relationships with the British royal family, the UK establishment and the media have played out in public for years – in books and interviews, on television programs and in the courts.

The latest twist saw Harry give a revealing interview after a court rejected his attempt to restore the police protection that was stripped from him after he quit his royal duties and moved to the US in 2020.

Read here for a timeline of recent events involving Harry and the British royal family: