Harry Just Made His 1st Comment About His Meeting With Charles as Sources Reveal What Really Happened Behind Closed Doors
Prince Harry finally had his highly anticipated meeting with King Charles in the UK. The King and the Duke of Sussex reportedly met for less than an hour on Sept. 10, 2025.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the father and son met in Clarence House for a private tea, which marked their first time seeing each other in person since February 2024. When Harry was leaving the premises, he responded to reporters’ questions about his father, simply saying, “Yes, he’s great.”
The reunion was expected, but very last minute according to royal sources. “The meeting was brief because of the King’s busy diary and Harry having an Invictus engagement in his diary, but it’s very significant that it has happened,” said Charlotte Griffiths, editor at large at The Mail on Sunday to Vanity Fair.
Up until then, the Duke spent the afternoon in White City touring Imperial College London’s Centre for Blast Injury Studies, where he took selfies with students until he had to go because he was “late.” “Harry had a meeting in London this morning and then made sure he kept his schedule completely clear so that he could see his father at a moment’s notice,” Griffiths noted. “It was a last-minute diary plan – it wasn’t in Harry’s diary – but perhaps that’s because he was nervous about leaks. He was prepared to drop everything to see his father and he let that be known to the palace.”
Now that the meeting is done, reports say that the ball is in Harry’s court. “The King has always left the door open for Harry to come back to Britain, Charles genuinely misses him and it pains him that there is a rift, but the ball is in Harry’s court,” a source who knows the King told Vanity Fair. “If details of their meeting are leaked, then it will be a short-lived reconciliation. The issue of trust is very important to the King, and has been breached in the past.
‘Harry has to prove he can keep the conversations between them private if he wants to really have a relationship with his father.”
Harry visited his home country because the Invictus Games Foundation hosted Invictus Horizons at Gherkin in London on Sept. 10, where he met with supporters. After losing his security appeal in May, he talked to the BBC about how he would like to talk to his father again. “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”
Though Harry completed a meeting with Charles, there’s no chance that he will meet up with his brother William. “At the end of the day, as he’s (Harry) no longer a member of the institution, he doesn’t feel bound to de-conflict his diary with the institution,” a source told the Times of London about William’s schedule.
