King Charles III visited with his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet for the first time in four years.
Buckingham Palace officials confirmed to The Times of London on Friday, July 10, that Charles, 77, and wife Queen Camilla hosted the king’s son Prince Harry and his family at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, England.
The outlet reported that the meeting was a “private family occasion.” Us Weekly has reached out for comment.
Harry, 41, and his wife, Meghan Markle, recently traveled across the pond from their home in California with Archie, 7, and Lili, 5, in tow as the Duke of Sussex celebrated the countdown to the next Invictus Games.
Harry and Meghan, 44, welcomed Archie in London in 2019, one year before the couple stepped down from their duties as senior working royals and moved abroad to California. The duo welcomed Lilibet in 2021.
Harry and Meghan’s move soon fostered a rift with Charles and his eldest son, Prince William, further fueled by the 2023 release of Harry’s memoir, Spare, which detailed their strained relationship.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry told the BBC in May 2025 after losing his latest court appeal for security on any visits to England. “There have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family.”
The duke last visited Charles in February 2024 after the monarch was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer.
“I love my family,” Harry told Good Morning America that month. “The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go and see him and spend any time with him, I’m grateful for that. I jumped on a plane and went to go see him as soon as I could.”
He added at the time, “I’ve got other trip plans that will take me through the U.K., or back to the U.K. So, I’ll stop in and see my family as much as I can.”
A spokesperson for Prince Harry has clarified the nature of his recent reunion with his estranged father, King Charles III. Harry’s rep told People in a Saturday, September 27, statement that it is “categorically false” that the king, 76, treated his youngest son like an “official visitor” during their meeting at Clarence House earlier this […]
While Harry traveled to London on multiple occasions since then, Meghan often remained in her native California with Archie and Lili.
“It’s a dream, but I also know that being part of a community means you put effort into it,” the former Suits star told People in March 2025 of her life in Montecito. “Once you know us, I think you want us to have the same normalcy as parents and for our children as they do, despite however unique our situation is. … We go to a lot of dinners, and not just in people’s homes or private rooms; we just go into the restaurant. I really love that we can just have fun.”
Meghan and the children are not expected to make any official engagements with Harry on his summer trip.
