The royal family reunion may not have gone as planned for Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne gets the sense that, from Meghan\u2019s perspective, the reunion with Charles and Camilla wasn\u2019t entirely warm and fuzzy,\u201d royal author Christopher Andersen told Page Six earlier this week.<\/p>\n
However, a palace source questioned how Andersen would be privy to what had been a \u201cprivate family-only meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Prince Harry, 41, and Meghan Markle, 44, along with their children<\/a> \u2014 Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 \u2014 reunited with King Charles and Queen Camilla for the first time in four years<\/a> and the first since the monarch\u2019s announcement that he has cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n A royal author said that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry\u2019s recent visit to see King Charles didn\u2019t go smoothly. Shutterstock<\/p>\n The couple brought along their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. meghan\/Instagram<\/p>\n Buckingham Palace confirmed that the reunion took place at Highgrove House, the monarch\u2019s private country residence in Gloucestershire, England. Photos of the meeting are not expected to be released.<\/p>\n The last time Charles, 77, reunited with his grandkids was in 2022, when they attended Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s Platinum Jubilee.<\/a><\/p>\n The visit has not been without hiccups.<\/p>\n The children, seen here in 2026, had not seen their grandfather in four years. Instagram\/@meghan<\/p>\n Royal author Christopher Andersen said that the couple\u2019s visit was not \u201centirely warm and fuzzy.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n Page Six exclusively reported that the Sussexes were denied taxpayer-funded security<\/a> and that Buckingham Palace withdrew its offer<\/a> to let the couple stay at the royal residence, leaving Harry by himself for most of the trip.<\/p>\n A source told People that the jaunt \u201cturned into a nightmare\u201d for Markle<\/a> as she was forced to leave earlier than planned with the children.<\/p>\n Prince Harry has gone to court numerous times in an attempt to gain security for his family when they visit the UK, but has been denied repeatedly.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Prince Harry was in the UK to promote the Invictus Games and took time out to visit a children\u2019s hospital on July 9. REUTERS<\/p>\n He also attended a \u201cOne Year to Go\u201d event ahead of the Invictus Games on July 10. BACKGRID<\/p>\n Andersen, whose most recent book is called \u201cKate!: The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen,\u201d<\/a> claims that \u201cit\u2019s fairly clear that Markle feels more secure in [her home] in Montecito, and doesn\u2019t want to give the impression that she will be any part of a return to royal life.\u201d<\/p>\n Page Six exclusively reported that Prince Harry was overheard telling guests<\/a> at the TIME 100 Sports Gala that Markle and the children are \u201chappy\u201d to be home in California after their brief visit to the UK.<\/p>\n The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were leaving their senior royal positions in 2020<\/a> and have since settled in California, where they have embarked on a number of ventures including podcasts, Netflix series <\/a>and a homewares line.<\/a><\/p>\n Neither a spokesperson for the Sussexes nor Buckingham Palace replied to Page Six when asked for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The royal family reunion may not have gone as planned for Meghan Markle. \u201cOne gets the sense that,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,1302,61,60,7426,7425,7424,4639],"class_list":["post-556707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}