Why King Charles & Prince Harry Share ‘No Desire’ for a Warm Family Reunion Right Now

Prince Harry’s fight against the publisher of the Daily Mail is bringing him back to the U.K. at the end of January, but it doesn’t appear that a father-son reunion is in the works.

The BBC confirmed the news that the Duke of Sussex will be strictly focused on his civil case when he returns to his home country, but a face-to-face meeting with King Charles III is not on the agenda. This situation isn’t a one-sided affair either, according to Rob Shuter’s Substack, it seems that the family members aren’t rushing to see each other right now.

“Charles is in complete control. If he wanted a father-son reunion, it would happen. There’s just no desire on either side right now,” a source told Shuter. A second palace insider agreed that it was a “mutual choice” and “a sit-down isn’t in the cards” at this time.

The talk of a reunion likely won’t die down in 2026, though. Per The Sun, King Charles and Queen Camilla are expected to make a visit to see Donald Trump in April in honor of the United States’ 250th birthday. That scheduled trip will probably ignite the reconciliation rumors again, in hopes that the monarch will visit his grandchildren, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, in California.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are expected at the White House celebrations in July as a part of their soft diplomacy mission to “keep Donald Trump sweet,” per The Independent. Even with their visit, royal fans shouldn’t hold their breath for a William-Harry reunion.

Shuter is very clear that there is “zero chance” that the brothers will meet up during Harry’s January visit or the Wales’ July trip to the U.S. There is no relationship there, and neither of them wants to reconcile — at least right now.

Prince Harry is the one who has been pushing for a softening in the feud, telling the BBC in May 2025, “There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore. I don’t know how much longer my father has” in reference to his father’s cancer battle.

He was able to orchestrate a short meeting with his dad in September 2025 while he was in the U.K. for the annual WellChild Awards. Vanity Fair described the meeting as “brief but significant,” and on King Charles’ terms.

“Harry had a meeting in London this morning and then made sure he kept his schedule completely clear so that he could see his father at a moment’s notice,” Charlotte Griffiths, editor at large at The Mail on Sunday, told the media outlet. “It was a last-minute diary plan—it wasn’t in Harry’s diary—but perhaps that’s because he was nervous about leaks. He was prepared to drop everything to see his father, and he let that be known to the palace.”

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