Prince Harry arrives for meeting with his father The King at Clarence House
The King is meeting with his son, Prince Harry, at Clarence House this evening for the first time in 19 months.
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has arrived for an expected meeting with his father The King at Clarence House. The gathering would be the first time the pair have met in 19 months.
The royal passed through the gates to his father’s London home at around 5.20pm this afternoon having earlier attended an engagement at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London.
In May, Harry expressed a desire to meet his father again, telling the BBC Charles would not speak to him because of his court battle over his security and that he did not know “how much longer my father has”.
Speculation had mounted as to whether the royal relations would finally meet, despite their troubled father-son relationship, after Harry last saw his father in February last year after the King’s cancer diagnosis.
Charles, who is still undergoing treatment for his illness, arrived in London from Balmoral earlier today, the penultimate day of his youngest son’s four-day trip to the UK.
The duke stepped down from the working monarchy in 2020, and has gone on to cause controversy with a series of claims and accusations aimed at the royal family - including his father, the Queen, his brother William Prince of Wales, and sister-in-law the Princess of Wales in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, his autobiography, Spare, and a Netflix documentary.
William and Harry are not expected to meet, as the elder sibling is in Cardiff on Wednesday visiting a new mental health hub on World Suicide Prevention Day. However, the father-son meeting came after senior aides to the pair were pictured together in London in July, in what was reported to be an initial discussion between them.