WHEN HARRY FINALLY MET HIS FATHER AGAIN

Hopes of royal reconciliation rising after the Duke of Sussex visits the King

- By Emily Ferguson Royal Editor

PRINCE Harry met his father last night for the first time in 19 months, boosting reconciliation hopes.

The King hosted a 55-minute private tea for his estranged younger son in his London home. It was the first time that Charles and Harry have met since the Duke of Sussex flew in from California after the monarch’s cancer diagnosis was made public, in February last year. Relations have been fraught following Harry's repeated public attacks on the Royal Family in the five years since he and his wife Meghan stepped down as senior working royals.

Buckingham Palace and the Duke's office both declined to give further details of last night's brief get-together, but Harry said of the King "Yes, he's great, thank you" when he was asked at a later Invictus Games event.

The Prince had been driven to Clarence House at 5.20pm after an engagement at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in Imperial College London. The King, who is still having regular cancer treatment, had earlier returned to the capital from Balmoral for several audiences and yesterday afternoon was the only time Harry had free from engagements in his fourday UK trip.

At 4.15pm the King presented Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, 94, with an MBE.