{"id":398874,"date":"2025-09-05T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398874\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:59:18","slug":"heartbreaking-reason-king-charles-is-desperate-to-meet-prince-harry-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398874\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking reason King Charles is desperate to meet Prince Harry | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The King and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Queen Camilla\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/queen-camilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen<\/a> have been spending the summer at Balmoral and are <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1955022\/king-Charles-queen-Elizabeth-final-days-Balmoral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected to return there to mark the anniversary<\/a> which falls two days after the upcoming <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Inside the Braemar Gathering as King attends Highlands event loved by Queen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1808621\/inside-braemar-gathering-king-attends-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braemar Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">This carries special significance, as following Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s passing, the King reflected: \u201cMy late mother especially treasured the time spent at Balmoral, and it was there, in the most beloved of places, where she chose to spend her final days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Harry may travel to Scotland, though the King\u2019s regular trips south for cancer treatment and public engagements could also create an opportunity for father and son to meet face to face closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Seward, royal biographer and author of My Mother and I, told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/prince-harry-meeting-king-charles-london-2123757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a> that while a meeting could be on the cards, the responsibility may fall to Harry to make the trip north. She revealed: \u201cMy opinion is that Harry desperately needs the stardust of meeting his father. He needs the glow of being the king\u2019s son to shine on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Harry would be very keen to meet his father and as a parent I would think Charles would probably like to see him. Because Charles isn\u2019t seeing his grandchildren that must be really sad for him and if a meeting can be arranged without too much drama, he will see Harry,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Archie and Lilibet are not expected to travel with their father and are expected to remain in the US with their mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Archie and Lilibet are both at school age, and a meeting between the King and Harry would offer a rare opportunity for them to catch up on family matters away from the media spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Any potential visit to Balmoral, or another royal residence in Scotland, would ultimately hinge on an invitation from the monarch and coordination with his senior aides.<\/p>\n<p>Royal author Ingrid Seward suggested staff may even wish to be present during the encounter, noting: \u201cI don\u2019t think Charles would be against meeting him, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll meet him alone. I would think there would be an aide there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen have been spending the summer at Balmoral and are expected to return there to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19970,77,518,137643,137644,137642,1281,447,137645,519,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-balmoral-castle","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-king-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles-prince-harry-argument","12":"tag-king-charles-prince-harry-meet","13":"tag-king-charles-prince-harry-speaking","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-prince-harry-visit-uk-meet","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149456269077805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398874","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=398874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}