{"id":681065,"date":"2026-07-08T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:58:08","slug":"king-charles-meeting-with-harry-grandchildren-up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681065\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles\u2019 meeting with Harry, grandchildren up in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry\u2019s much-anticipated meeting with King Charles <\/a>is up in the air \u2014 and time is running out for the father and son to catch up.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis only real opportunities [to meet Charles] were yesterday and today,\u201d a royal insider said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But there is one factor that could help make a visit happen.<\/p>\n

Harry arrived at a meeting in London Tuesday, minutes after finding out he had lost his court battle against Associated Newspapers. Tayfun Salci\/Zuma \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Meghan comes \u2026 with the kids, then it\u2019s more of a possibility,\u201d said the insider of Markle.<\/p>\n

As Page Six previously reported, Harry, 41, would love for Markle and the kids to come over \u2014 even if for one day \u2014 they are believed to be on a family vacation in Portugal, if they can sort out security.<\/p>\n

Markle was originally set to join her husband in Birmingham, England, for Invictus Games events, and the couple previously announced they were bringing their children<\/a>, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, over to the UK to see Charles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Harry, who arrived in London on Monday, axed this plan <\/a>over his heavily publicized security dispute. The duke previously lost a legal challenge over his ability to have armed security while in his homeland.<\/p>\n

Harry spent Wednesday in private meetings at London\u2019s Royal Hospital Chelsea, related to the Invictus Games Foundation.<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan Markle announced plans to bring their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, over to the UK this week \u2014 but that changed over security fears. meghan\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex heads to Birmingham Thursday, where, in his capacity as Patron of WellChild, he will visit the city\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Harry will be at Birmingham\u2019s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) \u2014 the primary venue for the 2027 Invictus Games \u2014 where he\u2019ll join competitors from previous games in a series of events.\u00a0 On Saturday, he will attend a charity event in nearby\u00a0Warwickshire.<\/p>\n

Another source said the duke, and perhaps his children, could see Charles late Saturday or Sunday \u2014\u00a0but added that Tuesday\u2019s disastrous court ruling<\/a>, which saw Harry lose his case against Associated Newspapers Ltd., will make things even more awkward.<\/p>\n

King Charles has had a busy week \u2014 and was seen riding a tank during an event in Dorset, England, on Monday. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

Harry raged against the decision, calling it a \u201cwhite wash.\u201d<\/a> The renegade royal had accused journalists of hacking his communications, as well as that of his ex-girlfriend Chelsea Davy, alongside other unlawful gathering.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see [a meeting] happening now after the ruling,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n

Harry last saw Charles, 77, who has been battling cancer, last September <\/a>when he was last in London and the pair had tea. The king is mainly based between London and Windsor.<\/p>\n

Harry, seen with King Charles and his estranged brother Prince William in 2014, has not seen his father since last September. Getty Images<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s visit turned into a farce, as Harry\u2019s rep announced Monday he was staying at Buckingham Palace \u2014 only for the palace to deny this minutes later<\/a>, saying he had missed a deadline to RSVP to their invitation. <\/p>\n

Sources later railed against that move,<\/a> saying it would have been easy to find a room for the king\u2019s son to stay.<\/p>\n

Harry continues to insist that he wants to reconcile with his family after the fallout spurred by his constant revelations about life within palace walls, including in his memoir \u201cSpare,\u201d the \u201cHarry & Meghan\u201d Netflix docu-series, and his and Markle\u2019s bombshell 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n

Harry met with photographer friend Misan Harriman (second from right) Monday night at the London premiere of \u201cShoot the People,\u201d a documentary about Harriman. Also pictured: director Andy Mundy-Castle and journalist Afua Hirsch. Jed Cullen\/Dave Benett\/WireImage<\/p>\n

In an emotional interview with the BBC last May, he said\u00a0the king \u201cwon\u2019t speak to me because of this security stuff,\u201d adding that he did not want to fight any more and did \u201cnot know how much longer my father has \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love reconciliation with my family. There\u2019s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious,\u201d said Harry, who said the dispute over his security had \u201calways been the sticking point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry\u2019s much-anticipated meeting with King Charles is up in the air \u2014 and time is running out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[62173,33685,6491,96,661,984,62174,100,983,223,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-lilibet-diana-mountbatten-windsor","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}