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ATTEMPTS TO BRIDGE THE ROYAL DIVIDE HAVE BROUGHT PRINCE HARRY BACK INTO CONTACT WITH PRINCESS KATE AND KING CHARLES III — AND CLOSER TO CONFLICT WITH MEGHAN.

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DURING his September visit to Ukraine with the Invictus Games Foundation, Prince Harry met with wounded soldiers and shared words of encouragement that underscored the importance of family. Just two days earlier, the Duke of Sussex had reunited face-to-face with his father, King Charles III — their first meeting since Harry learned of the monarch’s cancer diagnosis more than 18 months earlier — lending his remarks an added significance. “You will feel lost at times, like you lack purpose, but however dark those days are, there is light at the end of the tunnel,” Harry told the vets.

“You just need to look for it, because there will always be someone — a mother, father, sibling, friend or comrade — there to pick you up.”

His wife, Meghan, 44, and their children, Archie, 6, and Lili, 4, have certainly been there for Harry amid the Sussexes’ estrangement from senior members of Harry’s family, including Charles, 76, and brother Prince William, 43, in the wake of their shocking move to California nearly six years ago. But Star has learned they aren’t the only ones who have his interests at heart. “Harry has been back in touch with Kate for a while now, and it’s very much a two-way street,” says a source — making the stunning revelation that the 40-year-old duke and his once-close sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, 43, have secretly been texting, emailing and “chatting on the phone every so often.”

HOW IT STARTED

It began when Kate faced a life-altering health crisis last year, says the source. Harry and Meghan caused a lot of hurt when, in a series of interviews, a Netflix docuseries and his 2023 memoir,