King Charles III, Prince Harry meet in-person amid family tensions
Prince Harry and his father King Charles III met in London on Wednesday, according to Buckingham Palace.
Harry was seen arriving at Clarence House by car after Charles returned home to London from Balmoral, Scotland, earlier on Wednesday.
The king and his son had a private tea, a royal source told ABC News.
The meeting -- the first between the father and son in over one year -- took place as Harry was visiting the United Kingdom from his home in California for a series of engagements, including attending the Well Child Awards and meeting with young people and wounded veterans.
The last time Harry and Charles met in-person was in February 2024, when Harry flew to London to see Charles after it was announced that the king had been diagnosed with cancer.
Prior to that meeting, which lasted less than one hour, Harry had not seen his father in nearly one year: The last time the two had been seen together previously was at the king's coronation in May 2024 at Westminster Abbey.
Harry did not participate in his father's coronation ceremony and was not seen interacting publicly during that trip with either Charles or his older brother Prince William, the heir to the throne.
Harry has had a distant relationship with his father and brother -- his only sibling -- since at least 2020, when Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped away from their senior royal roles and moved to California, where they now live with their two children, the king's grandchildren.
Harry is not known to have seen William in-person since the coronation.
The last time the public saw the two brothers -- the only children of Charles and the late Princess Diana -- physically and closely together was in 2022, at the funeral for their beloved grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. At the funeral, Harry and William, along with other royal family members, were part of the procession that followed behind the queen's coffin.
Harry wrote about the rift between himself and William in his 2023 memoir "Spare," in which he refers to William as his "beloved brother and arch nemesis" and recalls verbal and even physical disputes between them.
Neither Kensington Palace -- William and Kate's office -- nor Buckingham Palace, the office of Charles and Queen Camilla, have commented on the claims Harry made in "Spare."
During Harry's visit to the U.K. this week, the brothers again kept their distance.
On Monday, three years after Elizabeth's death, Harry privately paid tribute to the late queen at Windsor Castle, just a short distance from where William lives with his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, and their three children.
On Tuesday, William and Harry each took part in separate engagements at roughly the same time, both remaining silent about the ongoing family rift.
