{"id":2057751,"date":"2025-09-29T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2057751"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:12:13","slug":"king-charles-saddened-and-perplexed-by-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-saddened-and-perplexed-by-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles &#8216;saddened and perplexed&#8217; by Prince\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div locked=\"\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/videos\/UXDQ34lk-FleFhhS9.mp4\" data-embed-id=\"gKZgaDul\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King<\/a> Charles has been left \u201csaddened and perplexed\u201d by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>\u2019s claim that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/buckingham-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buckingham Palace<\/a> is \u201csabotaging\u201d any hope of reconciliation, it has been claimed. <\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex, 41, appeared to accuse royal aides \u201cin grey suits\u201d of leaking information to the press following a meeting with his father, 76, in London earlier this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Speaking to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15140591\/Prince-Harry-Men-grey-suits-sabotaging-reunion-father.html\">The Mail on Sunday<\/a>, a source close to the estranged royal added that the pair\u2019s bond \u201cis a matter for the two of them and the two of them only\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The news has been met with disappointment by those close to His Majesty, with one saying officials \u201chave been working behind the scenes to improve what is a delicate but important private family relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two met for tea at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/clarence-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence House<\/a> on September 10 \u2014 their first face-to-face meeting since February 2024, when Charles was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Charles and Harry during the Invictus Games in 2014 (PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-affiliate=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=45843X1573846&amp;articleId=b1250288&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.co.uk%2Froyals%2F36845968%2Finside-harry-meeting-king-charles%2F&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/royals\/king-perplexed-harry-sabotaging-reconciliation-b1250288.html\">The Sun<\/a> claimed their 50-minute conversation had been \u201cdistinctly formal\u201d, with the duke reportedly describing the meeting as \u201clike an official visit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts were also exchanged, including a framed photograph, which included an image of the couple\u2019s with their children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, four<\/p>\n<p>But Harry\u2019s office said some of the claims were \u201ccategorically false\u201d and the quotes attributed to him were \u201cpure invention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A palace spokesman told <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2025\/09\/28\/king-saddened-prince-harry-sabotage-accusation-aides\/\">The Sunday Telegraph<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s very sad, especially because everyone has been working hard behind the scenes to make the private relationship work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry and his wife Meghan, 43, fled the UK for the United States in 2020 after stepping down as working royals.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.standard.co.uk\/2025\/08\/26\/14\/c727867dfa7e69f7a28bc341a001abcdY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU2MzAxOTE2-2.36590096.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption>Harry and Meghan on their wedding day in 2018 (PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, Harry claims that courtiers have conspired against him and, previously, against his late mother Princess Diana.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2022 autobiography <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/lifestyle\/prince-harry-s-memoir-spare-review-b1051977.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spare<\/a>, he suggested three middle-aged white men \u201cmanaged to consolidate power through a series of bold Machiavellian manoeuvres\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The King has made clear to his youngest son that he cannot have a part-time role within the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>An insider said that Harry and Meghan want \u201cfriendly relations with the King and to be in a position to move between Britain and the States regularly with no fears for their security.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\">\n      <\/script><\/p>\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 www.inkl.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles has been left \u201csaddened and perplexed\u201d by Prince Harry\u2019s claim that Buckingham Palace is \u201csabotaging\u201d any hope of reconciliation, it has been claimed. The Duke of Sussex, 41, appeared to accuse royal aides \u201cin grey suits\u201d of leaking information to the press following a meeting with his father, 76, in London earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2057752,"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":[22188,360324,360328,360322,21738,360325,360323,360326,360327,22814],"class_list":["post-2057751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/King-Charles-saddened-and-perplexed-by-Prince\u2026-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057751","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=2057751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}