Where Prince Harry Stands With King Charles & Prince William Amid Feud

Prince Harry's Rep Reacts After Offer to Stay at Buckingham Palace Is “Withdrawn at the Last Moment"

Prince Harry will not be crashing at his grandmother's old house during his next visit to the U.K. after all.

The 41-year-old had accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace when he traveled to England to attend an event for the Invictus Games Foundation. But, according to his rep, "the offer has now been withdrawn," citing the imminent High Court judgment expected July 7 in Harry's privacy case against Associated Limited Newspapers.

Harry previously decided not to bring Meghan Markle and their children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, with him on this trip, presumably due to the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) decision to deny official taxpayer-funded security for Harry and his family.

If the plan had gone accordingly, it would have been one more step in the gradual thawing of the ice between Harry and the monarchy. Instead, the Duke of Sussex's rep noted, since he made "alternative security arrangements," it remains "unclear why, having formally accepted the accommodation offer, it has now been withdrawn at the last moment."

And though King Charles III's primary residence remains Clarence House, a hop-skip from Buckingham Palace, presumably he has a say in who stays at the various royal abodes.

Harry's relationship with his father, who hosted him for a not-quite-hour-long tea last September at Clarence House, their first in-person visit in 19 months, had seemingly improved since 2020, when the king stopped taking his calls as he and Meghan were determining how to step back from royal life.

"I would love reconciliation with my family," Harry told the BBC in May 2025. "There's no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious."

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After the tea, the younger of the two sons Charles had with first wife Princess Diana said only that his father was doing "great."

But that typically terse recounting of what occurs between members of the royal family behind closed doors did seem to signal that Harry and Charles were at least working on repairing their bond.

Whether Prince William is also hankering to reconcile remains to be seen. While Harry's meeting with Charles prompted speculation as to whether a face-to-face with his older brother could be next, by all accounts Harry left Britain without seeing him and it's been almost two years since they were anywhere near each other.

Not that their lack of contact was a surprise after years of estrangement. Harry acknowledged to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes in January 2023 that he and William, 44, weren't speaking, though he looked forward to them "being able to find peace."

And, theoretically, anything is possible, considering Harry said his father wasn't speaking to him just months before their Clarence House têta-à-tête.

Harry went to see Charles right away after the monarch shared in February 2024 that he was undergoing treatment for cancer.

But by May 2025, a remaining "sticking point" between them, Harry explained, was his ongoing battle to get the U.K. government to provide his family with security when they were in the prince's home country.

"I never asked him to intervene," Harry told the BBC after he lost his appeal in the matter. "I asked him to step out of the way and let the experts do their jobs."

At the same time, said the California-based royal, "I don't know how much longer my father has."

Photos published by the Mail on Sunday in July 2025 showed members of the Duke of Sussex's team meeting with Charles' communications secretary, an indication that some sort of dialogue was happening, sparking hopes for an imminent reunion.

And a reunion between father and son was in the cards.

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In town to attend the WellChild Awards, Harry arrived in the U.K. on Sept. 8 and his first stop was Windsor to lay flowers at Queen Elizabeth II's gravesite on what was the third anniversary of her death.

Charles was at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with Queen Camilla earlier in the week, but they returned to London on Sept. 10. In addition to hosting Harry at Clarence House, the 77-year-old presided over an investiture ceremony and met with his privy council, amid other official business on his schedule.

William, meanwhile, left town the same day, going to Cardiff, Wales, to visit a new mental health hub at Principality Stadium.

All told, "Harry obviously loved being back in the UK," a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex told Page Six the day after his tea with the king, "catching up with old friends, colleagues, and just generally being able to support the incredible work of the causes that mean so much to him."

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As Harry detailed in his 2023 memoir Spare and indicated in numerous interviews, his bond with William started to fray long before he and Meghan decided in 2020 to relinquish their senior royal status and move to America.

"The majority of the stuff is created out of nothing," Harry noted in the 2019 ITV special Harry and Meghan: An African Journey, "but as brothers, you know, you have good days, you have bad days."

And not least because William is first in line to the throne, he has said nothing publicly about where his relationship with Harry stands.

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The last time they publicly interacted was during the queen's Sept. 19, 2022, funeral, where they were both part of the procession. Harry attended but didn't play a role in Charles' May, 6, 2023, coronation, and he did not join his family afterward at Buckingham Palace for their group photo on the balcony.

The brothers were both at St. Mary's Church in Norfolk for their uncle Lord Robert Fellowes' funeral in August 2024, wanting to pay their respects to their late mother Diana's brother-in-law, but they did not openly interact.

While they have their respective rituals, William and Harry also haven't honored their mother together since July 1, 2021, when they unveiled a statue of Diana in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace on what would have been her 60th birthday.

"There is no doubt Diana would have tried to act as a peacemaker between them," royal biographer Andrew Morton told People in August. "If she had been around, they would have worked things out in a different way.”

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(Originally published Sept. 15, 2025, at 12 a.m. PT)