King Charles Agreed To Meet Harry, Meghan and Their Children On This One Condition
King Charles III was finally reunited with his son Prince Harry last week, after weeks of something approaching a briefing war between royal staff, Harry’s team, and the press.
Their expected reunion seemed on the brink of falling through right up until the last moment, when Charles and Queen Camilla welcomed Harry, his wife Meghan Markle, and their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to tea at Highgrove, the king’s beloved country home.
It was the first time in four years that Charles saw his grandchildren, and marked only the second time that he has met his granddaughter Lilibet Diana.
However, the royal reunion did not come about without certain conditions being met—and the most important one, according to sources close to Charles, was that Harry and Meghan were not to leak any details about the meeting at Highgrove.
Charles “wanted the meeting but was adamant it must be kept private”, according to the source.
This means no photographs released to the public, or any other information about the get-together. We don’t even know how long the Sussexes hung out at Highgrove.
Meanwhile a source close to the Sussexes said that 7-year-old Archie and 5-year-old Lilibet were “very excited about seeing their grandfather”, but that the meeting did not come about without phone calls from a “rather frantic Harry to his father’s aides, trying to make this happen.”
Harry is currently carrying out a series of engagements in the UK relating to the one year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games.
There’s been no sign of Meghan and the kids, who are keeping on the down-low after Harry learned that taxpayer-funded police protection had been denied to himself and his family by the UK government.
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But it’s possible that Meghan, Archie, and Lilibet accompanied Harry to the late Princess Diana’s ancestral home of Althorp House after accepting an invitation extended by Diana’s brother Earl Spencer.
Harry was seeing leaving the 13,000 acre estate on Friday, raising the possibility that he was joined there by his wife and children.
It was previously reported that Harry and Meghan were planning on bringing Archie and Lilibet to visit Diana’s grave, which is located on an island island at the centre of an ornamental lake in the depths of the estate.
The late Princess of Wales would have been 65 on July 1.
Harry was a guest on an episode of the Joe Marler Will See You Now podcast yesterday, during which he opened up about his relationship with Archie and Lilibet.
“Kids remind you not to take yourself too seriously,” he said, adding that the “resilience” of children is “amazing.”
“The way that they view life is so incredibly refreshing,” he said. “If a day is hard, one thing I will do is always squeeze my kids […] extra tight.”
A few days before appearing on the podcast, Harry attended a charity event in support of Scotty’s Little Soldiers.
He was asked by 9-year-old Poppy what makes him laugh on a difficult day.
“You know what, sometimes it’s just a difficult day,” the 41-year-old duke said. “It’s not always possible to laugh.
“But my dog makes me laugh, my children make me laugh. And if I need to laugh, I’ll probably put something really funny on the television.”
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This story was originally published by Parade on Jul 14, 2026, where it first appeared in the Celebs section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.