'Secret peace summit': King Charles and Prince Harry's senior aides meet to discuss possible reconciliation

King Charles and Prince Harry's senior aides have met to discuss a possible reconciliation, days before the Duke of Sussex's Invictus Games returns to the UK.

At the secret meeting last week, Charles, 76, was represented by his Communications Secretary, Tobyn Andreae, and Harry, 40, sent his Chief Communications Officer Meredith Maines, according to Mail On Sunday.

The group, which also included Harry and Meghan's head of PR Liam Maguire, were photographed by the publication at a London private members' club called Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL), located near Clarence House which is King Charles' London residence.

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It isn't known which party initiated the meeting, although Harry has recently stated he hopes to reconcile with his family during a recent BBC interview.

He is also bringing his Invictus Games back to the UK in 2027, where it first launched in 2016.

The Invictus Games will take place in Birmingham from July 10-17. Prince Harry normally visits the location a year before the opening ceremony to promote the event.

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This would mean a return to his homeland as early as 2026, where he recently lost a fight for full-time security following a lengthy legal process.

Harry stated he would not bring his family, wife Meghan and their children Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four, back to the UK without security, and he claimed his father could have intervened to ensure he could access this for his family.

In May, the royal lost his final appeal against the ruling, and sat down with the BBC shortly after for a candid interview, which is understood to have been organised by Maines.

Harry said he was fully aware of the "consequences of continuing to do interviews" and "speaking out" during the BBC interview, with the royal household reportedly only found out about 30 minutes before it aired.

He called the decision to remove his automatic police protection on UK soil as "a good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up".

Harry said his father no longer speaks to him and admitted "some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book".

"Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things.

"But, you know... I would love reconciliation with my family. There's no point in continuing to fight anymore."

The royal household did not respond to the BBC interview and either the party has commented on this latest development.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex resigned as senior working royals in January 2020, relocating to the UK where there launched their own private endeavours.

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Their sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 confirmed a rift between the Sussexes and the British Royal Family, with Harry and Meghan alleging mistreatment during their time as senior working royals and making claims of racism due to a discussion about the possible skin colour of their son Archie.

In July that year Prince Harry and Prince William reunited in the UK in July to unveil a statue of their mother Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

Harry and Meghan continued to speak negatively of their time as working royals in their Netflix series Harry & Meghan which was released in 2022.

Tensions continued to simmer until Harry released his memoir Spare in 2023 and it then that the rift widened even further, with the Duke of Sussex detailing his conflicts with his brother and members of the royal family, in stark and unprecedented detail.

Members of the British royal family attended Prince Harry's first Invictus Games in London in 2014, including King Charles and Prince William.

Harry and Meghan debuted their relationship at the Invictus Games in Toronto in 2016.

With the games headed to the UK, some royal followers would love nothing more than to see Harry reunite with father and brother, and bring his family back to the UK.

At the time of the Invictus Games in 2027, Prince Archie will be eight and Princess Lilibet will be six.

The last time the Duchess of Sussex was in the UK was for Queen Elizabeth's funeral in 2022.

A source told Mail on Sunday there is a "long road ahead" when it comes to a possible reconciliation between Prince Harry and the royal family.

With King Charles still battling cancer and Harry telling the BBC he doesn't know how much longer his father has left, there is an added sense of urgency in addition to the upcoming Invictus Games.

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Following Harry's BBC interview, royal commentator Victoria Arbiter told Today there are growing calls for Harry and Meghan's royal titles to be stripped.

"So I think people have sort of reached breaking point when it comes to the Sussexes' 'woe is me' narrative," Arbiter said.

"Any time they have spoken to Harry, that conversation has ended up on a US news program with a friendly journalist. I just don't think they can trust him."

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