Five years after the Royal Family ruptured over Megxit, there are tentative signs that the King and Prince Harry are ready to end their rift.
Palace officials and those advising Harry remain tight-lipped over whether father and son will meet when the monarch returns from Balmoral to London but there is a noticeable thaw in relations and a desire to build bridges, according to royal insiders.
Harry has a fairly long window in his engagements on Wednesday in between a visit to Imperial College London and attending an evening reception for the Invictus Games Foundation.
He is heading for a flight out of Britain immediately after an event for The Diana Award on Thursday morning, according to a source close to him, which would appear to rule out a father-son meeting then.
Such is the sensitivity of their estrangement, even some senior advisers claim not to know if there will be a reunion. That may sound unlikely but when Harry and Meghan met the late Queen, for the first time since moving to California two years earlier, at Windsor Castle in April 2022 on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, it was said to blindside some of Elizabeth II’s senior officials.
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The King is understood to be still wary, possibly fearing that any private family meetings might end up as fodder for future Netflix shows or revised memoirs, and he also has to consider the hurt feelings of other relatives, including Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales, who the Duke or Duchess of Sussex have all spoken about in the past.
Most family rifts come to an end eventually and the 76-year-old monarch, who has always made it clear that he loves both sons equally, has not seen Harry since his younger son flew over for a frosty 45-minute meeting at Clarence House after he announced his cancer diagnosis in February 2024. He also has two grandchildren in Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, he has barely seen.
His son has offered him some guarantees: he has insisted he will not be speaking about his relationship with his family while he is in Britain and his office has insisted it will not be briefing the media if a meeting takes place. Even if there is no reunion on this occasion, it could lay the groundwork for the future.
The Duke of Sussex with nine-year-old Gwen Foster, recipient of Inspirational Child 7-11 award, at the annual WellChild Awards 2025 (Photo: Aaron Chown/PA)King is under pressure
There is a further pressure on the monarch to mend fences after Harry offered a truce – the threat of reputational damage to his reign and the monarchy itself. Some royal insiders have acknowledged that it may not be a good look for a King promoted as a great convenor, able to bring people together to solve the world’s great problems and preach tolerance and understanding, if he cannot even agree to speak to his younger son and pull his own family back together.
“I think it may well reflect badly on the King if he doesn’t take this chance and a meeting doesn’t happen,” Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine and a seasoned royal observer, said. “The time has come for a meeting of some sort to take place.”
Harry, 40, has made it clear that he is ready to stop arguing with his family. “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has,” he told the BBC after losing a court case over his security in May.
His decision now to give up any thought of pursuing further court action over the Home Office’s refusal to provide him guaranteed armed police protection every time he comes to Britain has removed the biggest obstacle to a rapprochement with his father.
On his trip to Britain this week, there has been some evidence of Harry’s private bodyguards liaising with police and also of his office coordinating with the Royal Household to allow St George’s Chapel to be closed to the public for 20 minutes on Monday to allow Harry to visit his grandmother’s grave.
Officials from the two offices have begun speaking and coordinating again, up to a point, after a period of frosty silence that meant Harry reportedly only found out from the press that his father had suffered a bad reaction to his treatment in March and had been readmitted to hospital.
Kensington Palace officials refused to comment on any possible meeting.
Meghan, who talked fondly about parts of her life in Britain in her latest With Love, Meghan lifestyle series, has not made her feelings about a reconciliation public but is thought to be supportive.
Prince William remains unlikely to meet his brother (Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty)Harry and William far from reconciliation
Any reunion remains highly unlikely, however, with Prince William, who has shut out thoughts about his brother and appears, for now, unwilling to seek reconciliation.
Harry, 40, is thought to be in touch with some of his cousins, including Zara Tindall and Princess Eugenie, but it is unclear whether he has resumed direct conversations with his father. He is not thought to have spoken to William for a couple of years.
At the WellChild awards in London on Monday, he joked with one 17-year-old boy about the problems of dealing with siblings and going to the same school, as he did at Eton with William, but left it at that.
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