{"id":2027507,"date":"2025-09-16T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2027507"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:55:21","slug":"prince-harry-king-charles-meeting-was-massive-step-in-right-direction-amid-royal-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-king-charles-meeting-was-massive-step-in-right-direction-amid-royal-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry, King Charles meeting was \u2018massive step in right direction\u2019 amid royal rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/09\/10\/king-charles-prince-harry-first-meeting-since-cancer-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Prince Harry\u2019s nearly hour-long visit with King Charles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Prince Harry\u2019s nearly hour-long visit with King Charles<\/a> last week \u2014 their first face-to-face since early 2024 \u2014 appears to done some good amid the royal family\u2019s enduring rift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ailsa Anderson, a former spokeswoman for the late Queen Elizabeth II, told People that the 53-minute meeting last Wednesday was \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/prince-harry-massive-step-king-charles-reunion-without-queen-camilla-exclusive-11809836\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a building of trust\u201d and therefore, \u201ca massive step in the right direction.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a building of trust\u201d and therefore, \u201ca massive step in the right direction.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another royal insider, connected both to estranged brothers Harry and William, regarded the reunion as \u201ca good starting point\u201d that \u201cshows the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Duke of Sussex and the 76-year-old monarch last came together in February 2024, on the heels of Charles making public his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/02\/05\/king-charles-diagnosed-with-cancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:diagnosis with cancer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">diagnosis with cancer<\/a>. His daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton, announced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/03\/22\/catherine-princess-of-wales-cancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:her own diagnosis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">her own diagnosis<\/a> weeks later, though she has now confirmed she\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/01\/14\/kate-middleton-cancer-remission-annoucement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in remission;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in remission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After leaving last week\u2019s meeting, Harry told a reporter that his father was \u201cgreat, thank you,\u201d but declined to offer any other details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Robert Hardman, who wrote \u201cThe Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy,\u201d told People that Harry\u2019s continued silence on the meeting would be what would ensure another. Harry publicly discussing it, however, would mean \u201cit will be a very long time\u201d before another one occurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queen Camilla was present for the February 2024 meeting but sat out of last week\u2019s, which royal author Sally Bedell Smith said signified that Harry \u201ccould be trusted one-on-one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harry \u2014 who described the issue of security as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c1mevvrll27o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cthe sticking point\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cthe sticking point\u201d<\/a> in the royal family drama \u2014 told The Guardian the past week <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/14\/my-conscience-is-clear-prince-harry-on-ukraine-his-family-and-the-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201chas definitely brought\u201d him \u201ccloser\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201chas definitely brought\u201d him \u201ccloser\u201d<\/a> to bringing his and Meghan Markle\u2019s young family to the U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the next year, Harry said, \u201cThe focus really has to be on my dad.\u201d He also defended his 2023 memoir \u201cSpare,\u201d explaining that his \u201cconscience is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry\u2019s nearly hour-long visit with King Charles last week \u2014 their first face-to-face since early 2024 \u2014 appears to done some good amid the royal family\u2019s enduring rift. Ailsa Anderson, a former spokeswoman for the late Queen Elizabeth II, told People that the 53-minute meeting last Wednesday was \u201ca building of trust\u201d and therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[341543,348893,23651,183315,22730,24515],"class_list":["post-2027507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-ailsa-anderson","tag-harry-and-william","tag-kate-middleton","tag-king-charles","tag-prince-harry","tag-the-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Prince-Harry-King-Charles-meeting-was-\u2018massive-step-in-right.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}