After 19 months apart, King Charles III and Prince Harry have reunited.
On Wednesday, the father-son duo had their first face-to-face meeting since February of 2024. Buckingham Palace confirmed the pair had tea together during a visit that lasted about an hour. No further details about their meeting was revealed.
Royal sources say the last time the father and son were together was after the announcement of the king’s cancer diagnosis when the Duke of Sussex flew to the U.K. to be by his side.
The pair’s reunion on Wednesday comes nearly three months after the Duke of Sussex expressed his hopes of making amends with his father after years of estrangement over his fight to restore security protection for his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children kids, Archie and Lilibet.
“There have been so many disagreements, differences between me and some of my family,” Harry told the BBC. “This current situation that has been now ongoing for five years with regard to human life and safety is the sticking point. It is the only thing that’s left.”
Although the pair have reunited, there’s many unresolved issues that led to their yearslong rift, including the fallout from his 2023 tell-all memoir “Spare.”
“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book,” Harry told People. “Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things.”
Despite Harry’s desire to resolve the family feud, especially amid Charles’ cancer battle, he admits he realistically “can’t see a world” where he brings his wife and children back to the U.K.
“The things that they’re going to miss is, well, everything,” Harry shared. “I love my country…I miss the U.K. I miss parts of the U.K., of course I do. I think that it’s quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
