Prince Harry has “no plans” to see King Charles or Prince William while in London, sources have claimed.
This evening, the Duke of Sussex, 40, stepped out to attend the 2024 WellChild Awards ceremony in London, bringing him back to the UK from his California home.
WellChild works to support seriously ill children and their families, and the awards celebrate the inspirational qualities of the young people and their carers.
Prince Harry has been patron of the national charity for 16 years, and the awards are a staple on his annual calendar.
Prince Harry isn’t expected to see his brother or father while in London
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Sources have told People Magazine that the Duke of Sussex has no plans to see the King, 75, or the Prince of Wales, 42, while in London for WellChild.
King Charles and Prince William did not see the Duke of Sussex during Prince Harry’s visit to the UK in May for an anniversary service commemorating 10 years of his Invictus Games.
This was despite Harry extending invitations to his father and brother ahead of the May event.
Harry’s relationship with his father, who is still in Scotland alongside Queen Camilla, remains strained amid the Duke of Sussex’s ongoing battle for security.
Prince Harry photographed at the WellChild Awards this eveningPAThe duke has also had a strained relationship with the Prince of Wales for the last couple of years, ever since Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back as working royals.
The family rift, which first became public in 2020, has been marked by attacks from the Sussexes via Netflix documentaries and autobiographies, and unresolved tensions.
The Duke of Sussex’s spokesperson attributed the lack of interaction between Harry and his father in May to the monarch’s “full schedule”.
Despite a positive meeting in person between the King and Harry in February following Charles’s cancer diagnosis, their communication has since deteriorated.
King Charles and Prince Harry last met each other in FebruaryPAThose close to Harry claim his father no longer takes his son’s calls or responds to his letters.
The rift with Prince William is “very bad,” a royal insider added, but claimed it is not “irreparable”.
Prince Harry and Prince William briefly reunited when they both attended the memorial service for their late maternal uncle, Lord Robert Fellowes, in Norfolk.
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Fellowes was married to Princess Diana’s sister, Lady Jane Spencer, and died in July at age 82.
Prince Harry travelled across the Atlantic to pay his respects at the service on August 29.
During the memorial at St Mary’s Church in Snettisham, the estranged brothers were understood to have avoided each other during the service, each sitting with different groups of their maternal cousins.