King Charles & Prince Harry SECRET PEACE TALKS!

AFTER YEARS OF ESTRANGEMENT, FATHER AND SON TAKE A TENTATIVE FIRST STEP TOWARD A TRUCE - WHILE PRINCE WILLIAM AND MEGHAN MARKLE FUME ON THE SIDELINES.

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FIRST THAW

“Charles used to call Harry his ‘darling boy. He would like to again,” says a source, noting that Harry doesn’t want to lose his cancer-stricken father “without feeling some sense of peace between them.”

IT APPEARED innocuous enough: Late on a Wednesday afternoon, a trio of professionals in business attire chatted over drinks while sitting outside at London’s Royal Over-Seas League. After 10 minutes at a table on the private members club’s first-floor garden terrace, the group headed inside to continue their discussions. But the trio’s identities made it clear this was no insignificant get-together, it was a royal summit. Representing King Charles III was Tobyn Andreae, the monarch's communications secretary. And there on behalf of Charles’ long-estranged son, Prince Harry, was Meredith Maines, the U.S.-based chief communications officer for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as well as Liam Maguire, who runs the couple’s public relations team in the U.K.

Following a report describing the al fresco July 9 meeting as “a secret peace summit” in a “rapprochement process,” a source confirms to Star that it was indeed a first step toward rebuilding Charles and Harry’s strained and, for the last two years, practically nonexistent relationship amid a royal family feud that’s only intensified since Harry, 40, and his American wife, Meghan Markle, 43, fled Britain for California in 2020. “It’s early stages,” says the source, “but both sides are looking at this meeting between reps as a start, a breaking of the ice.”

According to a July 14 report from