PRINCE Harry has reportedly landed back in Britain for a quick trip to the UK before a rumored meeting with King Charles.
The Duke of Sussex traveled from California for a service at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games.
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Harry flew to the UK alone, without Meghan or their children Archie and Lilibet.
But Meghan will join Harry on his visit to Nigeria later this week, it’s clear.
He was able to see his father, King Charles, after they gathered at Clarence House in February for their first face-to-face meeting in 16 months.
It is understood Harry will not see his brother Prince William – but is “looking forward” to seeing his father during the visit.
Charles, 75, resumed public duties last week for the first time since beginning cancer treatment.
He is now expected to attend Buckingham Palace’s first garden party of the year.
Both events will end around 6pm, paving the way for the first meeting since Harry’s trip in early February.
A royal source told The Sun: “Harry is normally 5,000 miles away in California.
“But by a happy coincidence on Wednesday they will be just two miles away.
“It is clear he is looking forward to seeing his father as he continues his recovery and most people are hoping for another type of reunion next week.”
The possible meeting is unlikely to include Prince William, who was hit by his brother’s attacks.
The brothers haven’t spoken since Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
It turns out Wills is about to award the mother of one of Harry’s friends an MBE.
Henry van Straubenzee died in a car accident in 2002 – he was the Duke’s best friend at school.
Wills will now pay tribute to Claire van Straubenzee at Windsor Castle in recognition of her services to early childhood education in Uganda.
Henry, known as Henners, died in a car crash near Ludgrove Prep school in Berkshire, where he worked during his gap year.
Prince Harry wrote affectionately about Henry in his memoir Spare.
The Duke said: “Slim, muscleless and with hair standing on end in permanent surrender, Henners was all heart.
“Whenever he smiled, people melted.”
The duke said he was the only boy who asked him about his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, after she was killed.
In 2007, Claire and her family created the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund to support children in Uganda.
It was initially at the school where Henry was supposed to teach before his tragic death.
Meghan Markle paid tribute to Henry at a Christmas ceremony in 2018.
A timeline of Prince Harry and William’s ‘rivalry’: Brothers ‘at war’
In 2018, The Sun told how the “simmering tension” began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghan’s engagement.
The first signs of friction emerged after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a sibling chat.
He knew Harry was already crazy about her, but it was claimed he advised him to take it slow.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take the advice very well, with a royal source saying he “went crazy.”
Then, in June 2019, Harry and Meghan officially split from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be split between the Sussexes and the Cambridges, while the couples focus on their own separate charitable efforts.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009, before Kate joined two years later, shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio often appeared together at events and the Foundation has had huge success with projects such as the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the Heads Together mental health campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made after completing a review of its structure – but added that the two couples would continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg lived near Kate and Wills on the Kensington Palace estate, but moved to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further fueled rumors of a fallout.
Harry, 39, also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
It came after Prince Philip called Meghan “DOW”, after the Duchess of Windsor – the American divorcee who led Edward VIII to abdicate.
And he warned the late queen to be “cautious” with Harry’s then-fiancée, claims a royal author.
Ingrid Seward revealed in new book My Mother And I that Prince Philip felt it was “strange… how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor”.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan gave their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, where Harry accused his father of holding him back financially.
Harry then flew back to the UK to join William in unveiling a statue of his mother, Princess Diana, in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources said William did not want to attend the memorial amid the fallout.
In 2022, shortly before the death of her grandmother, the Queen, sources claimed that Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the siblings.
Last year, Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the ground” during an argument about Meghan.
In his book Spare, Harry said William called Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a fight.
Harry claimed that William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and…knocked me to the ground.”
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back after the 2019 argument at Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he lived at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew to be with Charles following the shock of the monarch’s cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the next day – without seeing Wills.
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