Prince Harry‘s friends and family are said to be missing the cheeky chap he used to be.

The younger brother to the heir to the throne was well known among his friends, family and even the general public for being the wild, fun and cheeky chappy who could even make his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II laugh.

Since leaving the royal family to lead a life in America with his wife Meghan Markle and their two children, Archie and Lilibet, his family back at home are feeling as though they lost a part of him, according to sources.

‘Everybody misses the old happy Harry, not just the Royals. Kate and William have lost count of the number of friends who have remarked about how bad and sad the situation is.

‘It’s also a bewildering topic for the kids George, nine, Charlotte, eight, and five-year-old Louis, who thought the world of their uncle Harry,’ the insider told Heat magazine.

‘This summer would have been a perfect time for family bonding birthdays are coming up and they’re all kinds of things Harry misses out on.’

Just last year, an aide claimed that Harry ‘couldn’t fathom’ that he was no longer the ‘cheeky chappy going to sweet-talk his grandma’ when he and Meghan stepped back as royal family members.

In the second part of the couple’s bombshell Netflix docuseries, the Duke of Sussex says he was given five options during a meeting at Sandringham in January 2020 to discuss his royal future.

He chose the ‘half in, half out’ one, which meant the couple would have their own jobs but also work in support of the late Queen.

Harry explained: ‘It became very clear very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate. It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true.

‘And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in’.

But the insider labelled this claim as ‘outrageous’, saying the Queen was always in charge of making decisions.

They told the Sunday Times : ‘Harry never wanted to admit to himself that it was the Queen who said, ‘‘no, you’re out’’.

‘He couldn’t fathom that he wasn’t the cheeky chappy who was going to sweet-talk grandma into getting what he wanted.’