Huge Prince Harry update as he arranges peace summit with King Charles ‘within weeks' – but has no plans to meet William

The Sun

13 hours ago

PRINCE Harry is ready to talk to his dad the King after approving a peace summit between their aides last week.
Harry is said to have 'given his blessing' for the talks involving two of his team plus the King and Queen's director of communications.
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They spoke about potential ways to end the conflict, though a proposal for Harry to make a royal return was not on the agenda.
Adding intrigue to the developments, Prince William's team were not involved in the London summit.
California-based Harry is next due to visit the UK in September for the annual WellChild events.
It opens up the prospect of meeting his father for the first time in 18 months.
In September the King should still be on holiday at his Balmoral retreat, ahead of hosting US President Donald Trump in the middle of the month.
Yesterday Charles, 76 — whose cancer treatment continues — was pictured leaving a church service in the West Country.
In May Harry appeared to have torpedoed reconciliation efforts during a catastrophic and ill- advised interview with the BBC in which he moaned 'the King won't speak to me'.
But photos published at the weekend showed the King and Queen's director of communications Tobyn Andreae with Meredith Maines, chief communications officer for Harry's charity Archewell, and its UK and Europe communications manager Liam Maguire.
They met on the balcony of the members-only Royal Over-Seas League club a short walk from Buckingham Palace before continuing inside.
It is understood the face-to-face meeting was held to discuss avoiding media clashes and conflicts around calendar dates.
I know the exact moment Prince Harry had second thoughts about how he's treated the king
Discussions were not held about Prince Harry returning to any more formal royal role.
A source claimed: 'The meeting was with Harry's blessing.'
Buckingham Palace had also ­supported the proposals to 'open a channel of communication' — having agreed to them within the past two weeks, it has been claimed.
There was no contact between Harry's team and that working for William and Kate — or any invitation for face-to-face meetings.
Yesterday the Prince and Princess of Wales watched the Wimbledon men's singles final from the Royal Box with eldest children George, 11, and Charlotte, ten.
In September Kate and William will be returning from their summer break with a string of major engagements.
There have also been claims Harry will invite members of his estranged family to the Invictus Games when it is held in Birmingham in two years' time.
Just two months ago Harry hit out at his father in a BBC interview.
It came just hours after he lost a High Court case asking for taxpayer-funded gun cops despite not being a working royal.
Before the interview was aired royal sources told The Sun the King had been 'frustrated' by Harry's behaviour and 'an improvement in relations remains to be seen'.
The sources added: 'The King is at heart a loving and generous man.
'That love has been sorely tested by this case and so many other issues over recent times.
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'But there is now a chance for his son to move forwards rather than dwell on past grievances.
'From his father's perspective, the door has been shut by necessity while this painful issue played out through the proper judicial channels — but it has not been locked for ever nor the key thrown away."
The Palace was stunned when before the sentiment was made public Harry launched his TV attack branding the ruling an 'old-fashioned establishment stitch up'.
He resorted to speaking about his dad again saying: 'I don't know how much longer my father has — he won't speak to me because of this security stuff but it would be nice to reconcile.'
In a potential reference to Prince William, he added 'some members of my family will never forgive me' for writing his tell-all memoir Spare, published in January 2023.
I miss parts of the UK, and I think that it's really quite sad that I won't be able to show my children my homeland
Harry to the BBC in 2020
Harry went on to say: 'It would be nice to have that reconciliation part now.
'If they don't want that, that's entirely up to them.'
And Harry said: 'There is no point in continuing to fight anymore, life is precious.'
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Any prospect of a return to the UK for him Meghan and their children Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, was impossible given the ­security ruling, he said.
Harry, who moved to the US in 2020, told the BBC he 'can't see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back at this point'.
He added: 'I miss parts of the UK, and I think that it's really quite sad that I won't be able to show my children my homeland.'
The King and his youngest son have barely spoken for years after Harry trashed his family with an Oprah Winfrey interview, six-part Netflix show and the memoir.
Harry flew to the UK 18 months ago after Charles's cancer diagnosis, but was given just 30 minutes with his dad then was not allowed to join him at Sandringham.
Last summer the Palace was stunned when Harry's team announced the King was too busy to see him when he flew over for an Invictus Games event.
This May, just days after the gun cops ruling, Harry was spotted on a doorbell camera knocking at wrong doors as he searched for a pal's West London home.
Last week there were claims in the US that Harry and Meghan were struggling for money.
Sources close to the Sussexes are said to be frustrated by details of last week's meeting emerging, and deny leaking them.
There is said to be a 'weary disappointment' in the Palace over the photos and leaking of the talks.
Buckingham Palace and Archewell declined to comment.
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Wills must beware of bid for rift
By Matt Wilkinson
WHILE all eyes were on Harry and the King's spin doctors together having fun in the sun, it was more revealing to see who wasn't there.
The King's communications chief Tobyn Andreae turned up with a bottle as a gift for Sussex aides Meredith Maines and Liam Maguire.
But there was not a seat at the members' club balcony for anyone from Team William.
The Sussexes appear to be offering the hand of friendship — but are they trying to force a wedge between the King and future King?
William is right to stick to his guns as he is in a better head space now, is no longer seething and has moved on — but is still waiting for Harry to apologise.
While Harry love-bombs his dad — who has not locked the door or thrown away the key to reconciliation — let's not forget it has been his older brother who has consistently made big gestures.
It was William who kindly took himself and Kate out of the procession at Harry and Meghan's last royal engagement, the 2020 Commonwealth Day ceremony, after learning the Sussexes had been removed.
It was William who stood shoulder to shoulder with Harry to unveil a statue of their mum Diana at Kensington Palace months after the Oprah Winfrey interview.
It was William who agreed to wear a morning suit at Prince Philip's funeral instead of military uniform to spare Harry's blushes.
It was William who invited the Sussexes to join him to look at Windsor flowers for the late Queen Elizabeth II.
William has never publicly trashed his family.
The King and William should hopefully see through any attempt to divide them and they must stick together.