What Prince Harry Said About Long-Awaited Reunion With King Charles III

Prince Harry offered just a few words about his private meeting with his father, King Charles III, after the pair reunited for a private tea in London on Wednesday, September 10.

“Yes, he’s great, thank you,” Harry, 40, responded to a question about his royal reunion during an engagement for his Invictus Games Foundation, which took place Wednesday evening after he was spotted at Clarence House to meet his father.

According to Sky News, Harry arrived at Clarence House at around 5:20 p.m. local time and departed for the Invictus Games event at around 6:14 p.m. He and Charles, 76, met for around 54 minutes in their first private audience since February 2024, when Harry visited his father after news broke of the king’s cancer diagnosis.

Harry has been in the U.K. this week for the annual WellChild Awards in London on Monday, September 8, and other engagements close to his heart, including a visit Wednesday to the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London.

The Duke of Sussex previously shared his hopes for reconciliation with his father in an interview with the BBC in May after he lost his appeal to reinstate government-funded security for him and his family in the U.K. (Harry and wife Meghan Markle lost their security detail after stepping down as working members of the royal family in 2020.)

“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry said in May. “Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has.”

Harry told the BBC at the time that Charles wouldn’t “speak to me because of this security stuff.”

“There have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family,” he told the outlet, but said that he had now “forgiven” them.

In Us Weekly’s cover story last week, a royal source said, “Charles does want to meet Harry.”

The insider added, “He doesn’t want this falling-out to overshadow his legacy. But Harry has caused chaos and hurt, so it’s complicated.”

Royal historian Marlene Koenig theorized, “If there is a meeting, it will be private and more likely to be on the king’s terms rather than Harry’s.”

While Harry has now met with his father, it’s not clear whether he plans to meet with his brother, Prince William, 43. The princes have been seen attending various engagements in London this week, but do not appear to have crossed paths.