Speculation is mounting that King Charles could be reunited with his youngest grandchildren, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were offered royal accommodation for their upcoming UK visit.
Such an arrangement, with Harry and Meghan staying at a palace with their children, would signal a major thawing in the relationship between the King and his son, offering Charles a chance to reconnect with the young royals.
Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, last saw their grandfather during Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
The Sussexes are expected to travel from California in July for events surrounding the one-year countdown to Harry’s Invictus Games in Birmingham.
The duke will also attend engagements for the charities WellChild and Scotty’s Little Soldiers.
Harry has faced a protracted legal battle with the Home Office over the security arrangements for him and his family when in the UK, after his level of protection changed when he stepped down as a working royal in 2020.
He has cited security worries as a reason he could not bring them to the UK but it appears his concerns have been mitigated, with reports claiming that the Sussexes were given assurances.
But sources have stressed all matters of security are issues for the Home Office to decide, and the King does not play a role in the process and has not made any private undertakings.
Harry and Meghan do not have a permanent UK home after they were asked to vacate their Windsor residence Frogmore Cottage, a gift from the late Queen, in 2023 just weeks after the duke’s damning memoir Spare was released.
It is understood the duke and his family have been offered accommodation on the royal estate for their up-coming visit, but have yet to respond. Buckingham Palace was suggested as a place they could use during previous potential trips but the gesture was not taken up.
The trip comes after Harry met Charles, who is still undergoing treatment for cancer, last September for the first time for 19 months.
When the duke lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the Home Office in 2025, over his UK security arrangements, he gave a BBC interview in which he expressed hopes of a reconciliation with his family, revealing Charles would not speak to him because of his court battle over his security.
Harry added he “can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK”.
But he later wrote to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and submitted a formal request for a risk assessment to the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec), a body overseen by the Home Office which originally changed the degree of his UK protection.
A report by the Sun followed, stating the duke’s security arrangements were being reviewed.
The duke, who stepped down from the working monarchy in 2020, has levelled a barrage of accusations at the King, his stepmother the Queen, brother the Prince of Wales and sister-in-law the Princess of Wales in his Oprah interview, Netflix documentary, interviews and his autobiography Spare since moving to the US.
Harry previously claimed Charles was jealous of Meghan and Kate, did not hug him when he told him his mother Diana, Princess of Wales had died, and said he believed the King was “never made” for single parenthood, but “to be fair, he tried”.
Charles, according to the duke, pleaded with his sons during a tense meeting after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral: “Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery.”
Harry, who claimed in his memoir that William physically attacked him and pushed him into a dog bowl, remains estranged from his brother.
The duke’s spokesperson and Buckingham Palace have yet to comment.
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