Prince Harry spent 45 minutes with his father King Charles in their first face-to-face meeting for 19 months.
Harry was driven through the gates of Clarence House in London at around 5.20pm yesterday, around 90 minutes after the monarch arrived from Scotland.
A palace source later told The Telegraph that the king enjoyed a private tea with his son.
It was not known if Charles would find time in his diary to meet his youngest son after a series of intensely personal revelations left the royal family feeling deeply betrayed.
The meeting was their first since February last year, when Harry flew to London for a 30-minute reunion shortly after the king’s cancer diagnosis was made public.
Harry arrived in England on Monday for a four-day visit focused solely on his charities. He was due to attend an engagement for supporters of the Invictus Games at 6pm, leaving only a very small window to see his father, and is set to fly back to California today.
Since his flying visit to the UK in February last year, Prince Harry has made multiple visits to the UK but has not been granted another audience with the king, despite requests.
However, there has been a recent thawing in relations between the two sides, with senior aides for both the prince and king meeting in August.
Crucially, Harry’s High Court claim over his security, which pitted him directly against the UK’s Home Office, ended in May when he lost his appeal, drawing a line under the spectacle.
Harry, dressed smartly in a dark suit and tie, was photographed seated in the back of his vehicle as he arrived at his father’s London residence.
Both Buckingham Palace and Sussex aides have taken a vow of silence over the meeting.
Harry, who stepped down from the working monarchy in 2020, has levelled a barrage of accusations at the king, Queen Camilla and Prince Willima and his wife Kate in his Oprah interview, Netflix documentary, interviews and his autobiography Spare since moving to the US. He remains estranged from his brother William.
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