LONDON>> Prince Harry said that he wants to reconcile with his family after losing a court battle Friday over his publicly funded security that he said led his father, King Charles III, to stop talking to him.

“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry told the BBC. “I don’t know how much longer my father has.”

But Harry took aim at Buckingham Palace officials after the court of appeal rejected a bid to restore his police protection detail that was stripped by a government committee when he stepped away from his royal duties and moved to the U.S.

The Duke of Sussex said that he was devastated to lose the case that was a source of friction with his 76-year-old father, who is being treated for an undisclosed cancer. Harry has met with him once briefly since his diagnosis early last year.

“He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff,” Harry said in the interview that aired three hours after the ruling.

Harry, who is estranged from his family since departing the U.K. and writing a tell-all memoir with embarrassing details about the House of Windsor, said Friday’s court verdict meant it would be impossible to safely bring his family back to the U.K.

Despite those comments, there was little indication of reconciliation in the near future as the palace signaled its support for the court’s ruling.

Harry said repeatedly that the decision to withdraw his security had been made at the direction of palace officials in an effort to control him and his wife, even though it put their safety at risk.

“What I’m struggling to forgive, and what I will probably always struggle to forgive, is the decision that was made in 2020 that affects my every single day, and that is knowingly putting me and my family in harm’s way,” Harry said.

A government committee decided in 2020 that Harry’s security arrangements should be decided on a case-by-case basis whenever he visits the U.K.

Harry said that committee includes two representatives of Buckingham Palace who have blocked his security in the U.K. The king could resolve the security issue by stepping out of the way and letting experts make the decision, Harry added.

The prince called on U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to order a review of the process. “Whether you’re the government, whether you’re the royal household, whether you’re my dad, my family, despite all of our differences, do you not want to just ensure our safety?”

In response to the court ruling, Buckingham Palace issued a statement saying that issue had been meticulously examined by the courts “with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”

Harry said that he loves his country and would love to show his young children his homeland, but now he only returns for funerals and court cases.

He made a rare appearance for the two-day Court of Appeal hearing last month, where his lawyer argued that his life was in danger and the Royal and VIP Executive Committee had singled him out for inferior treatment.

Three judges on the appellate court ruled unanimously Friday that the committee’s decision to strip him of his publicly funded security wasn’t unreasonable.