{"id":261161,"date":"2025-07-13T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261161\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:53:11","slug":"prince-harry-and-king-charles-top-aides-hold-secret-meeting-amid-royal-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261161\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and King Charles&#8217; top aides hold &#8216;secret meeting&#8217; amid royal rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hush-hush meeting was held at a private members&#8217; club in London, not far from Clarence House<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752396791_203_0_BRITAIN-ROYALS-QUEEN-DEATH.jpg\" alt=\"Britain's King Charles III (L) walks with his son Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex as they arrive at St George's Chapel inside Windsor Castle on September 19, 2022\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>King Charles and Prince Harry(Image: POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There&#8217;s a chance a bitter royal rift may soon come to an end after secret meetings were held between King Charles and Prince Harry&#8217;s top aides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The hush-hush meeting was held at a private members&#8217; club in London, not far from Clarence House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Insiders believe this could be a &#8220;rapprochement process&#8221; between the Sussexes and the rest of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/royal-family\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a>, the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/king-charles-prince-harrys-top-35546315\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/senior-bin-dispute-officer-living-32046660\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior bin dispute officer living in award-winning &#8216;clean&#8217; city as Birmingham deals with &#8216;rats and squalor&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The meeting, which was believed to have taken place last week, saw Harry&#8217;s right-hand woman, Meredith Maines, fly in from California to meet Tobyn Andreae, the King&#8217;s communications chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Liam Maguire, who heads up the Sussexes&#8217; UK PR team, was also said to be at the &#8220;informal drinks&#8221;, which were held on the Royal Over-Seas League&#8217;s garden terrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A source told <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14899657\/King-Charles-Prince-Harry-aides-meet-London-secret-peace-summit.html?ito=push-notification&amp;ci=wUMDPbgD_P&amp;cri=MRnSBR_Lyq&amp;si=s_vG45t4KwEa&amp;xi=1d8b7de6-58fc-4654-8d5e-62643ce33184&amp;ai=14899657\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">MailOnline<\/a>: &#8220;There was no formal agenda. But both sides came to the table ready to talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;It&#8217;s the first real channel of communication we&#8217;ve seen in years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Maines, who was dressed in a cream jacket, heels, and clutching a black Louis Vuitton bag, was said to have jetted back to the Sussexes&#8217; Montecito mansion following the talks, where she&#8217;s thought to have given Harry a full briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No comment has been issued by Buckingham Palace or Team Sussex regarding the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The meeting comes just two months after Harry&#8217;s bombshell <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/bbc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> interview, where he claimed his father wouldn&#8217;t speak to him &#8220;because of this security stuff,&#8221; referring to the removal of his police protection in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The prince accused the Palace of orchestrating an &#8220;old-fashioned establishment stitch-up,&#8221; and heavily implied his father could have stepped in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But despite what has been said in the past, it seems King Charles could be ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Mail on Sunday previously reported that Harry had invited the Royal Family to the 2027 Invictus Games in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, which was also seen as an olive branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hush-hush meeting was held at a private members&#8217; club in London, not far from Clarence HouseKing Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[518,447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-261161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-king-charles-iii","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845083493585383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}