Harry, Duke of Sussex, will visit Britain on May 8 and will visit a sick King Charles, but both he and Meghan Markle have lots to do if they hope to make things right with Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales.
"Prince Harry will not be meeting his brother," veteran royal expert Michael Cole dished. "That’s going to take a lot of reconciliation. Harry is going to have to mend a few fences."
"I would say enough fences to encircle the whole 20,000 acres of the Sandringham Estate," he added. "A lot of humble pies have got to be eaten too. Meghan in her Montecito kitchen will have to bake up a humble pie about as tall as a Californian redwood and then eat it. It's going to be a long, long road before the two brothers are on speaking terms, let alone friends again."
"Their relationship remains extremely fractured," an anonymous source spilled. "Harry has privately expressed a wish to sit down with his brother, but now is not the time."
On the flip side, the insider added: "Harry has kept in regular contact with his father on several occasions and made no secret of his desire to see him when he can. He has been especially concerned about him and hopes the King will be well and able to see him as planned."
Although King Charles reportedly has a busy diary of royal duties next week, it is revealed that he will make time, much as he did on February 6, to fit his youngest son in. The pair met for what some reports claimed was only 45 minutes before the fiery-haired prince flew straight back to Montecito. In what has become a trend in the last two years, Meghan stayed behind in California and once again refused to set foot in Britain.
"The King will almost certainly see his younger son when he is in London next week," Cole observed. "The King has made it clear from the outset that his foot is always open to his younger son, who he tends to call 'my darling boy.' Harry is principally here for a thanksgiving service to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his brilliant innovation, the Invictus Games, at St Paul’s Cathedral. Usually, they’re 5,000 miles apart. Now they’re only two miles apart. I’m quite sure they will get together."
The Duke of Sussex and Prince of Wales have reportedly not spoken a single word to one another since Queen Elizabeth II's State Funeral in September 2022.
"It did seem like there was some hope they may reconcile after [Elizabeth II's funeral]," a palace insider spilled. "But only a handful of months later, the Netflix s------- dropped followed by Spare [Harry's memoir] the next month. William was done at that point."
GBN interviewed Cole.