Harry visits King with Meghan and children for first time in four years
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited King Charles and Queen Camilla with their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday evening that the King and Queen hosted the family at Highgrove House in the afternoon.
The palace described the meeting, held at the King’s private home in Gloucestershire, as a “private family event”.
The King is seeing his grandchildren, seven-year-old Archie and five-year-old Lilibet, in person for the first time in more than four years.
Prince Harry and Meghan, Queen Elizabeth II They have not been in the UK together since 2022, when they attended Elizabeth’s funeral.
Prince Harry has attended a number of events in the UK this week, but it was confirmed on Thursday that Meghan and her two children will not accompany him to any public events during the final two days of his visit.
It is unknown where the family stayed during their stay.
The meeting is a significant development in family relations, which have been strained since Prince Harry and Meghan left Britain and became royals in 2020.
Sources said father and son wanted to meet this week and the King was willing to make time to see his two young grandchildren.
The prince has been traveling to the country alone since 2022 and met his father on a trip last September.
While Prince Harry and his family were at Highgrove, his brother, the Prince of Wales, was playing in a charity polo match in Windsor.
The brothers’ relationship remains soured and there are no plans for Harry and Meghan to meet while they are in the UK.
In the early hours of Friday, Prince Harry was in Birmingham and counting down to the next Invictus Games for wounded soldiers and women, an event in which he has been closely involved for several years.
He was warmly applauded by the participants and fans of the games and tried his hand at pickleball and wheelchair rugby.
The prince’s visit to England was initially overshadowed. Court defeat against Associated Newspapers and confusion over whether Meghan and her children would come to the country.
Prince Harry throws himself into the action during the Invictus Games event in Birmingham [PA Media]
In the first details of the trip, it was stated that Meghan would attend events in London and Birmingham. Following a dispute over security levels, it was later confirmed that this would not be the case.
And last week, before the prince left for the trip, there was confusion about: Whether he will stay at Buckingham Palace.
His team had announced that he had accepted an invitation to stay at the Palace, but the offer was quickly rejected by the Palace, which said Prince Harry had already been told he would not be allowed to stay there.
The King met Tim Peake as part of his visits to Oxfordshire earlier on Friday [Reuters]
The King attended events in Oxfordshire ahead of Friday’s family meeting.
He opened a building at Oxford University before meeting astronaut Tim Peake at the launch of a space venture.
Earlier in the week, the Queen accompanied him on his visit to London Zoo; photographed here during sweltering temperatures as much of the UK experienced a heatwave.
