By Katherine Tinsley
6:19pm PDT, Sep 10, 2025
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Prince Harry finally reunited with his estranged father,
King Charles III, in England following weeks of questions about whether or not a path to reconciliation was possible. In the lead-up to the eagerly anticipated get-together, one expert shared what the Duke of Sussex would need to do to get back in his father's good graces…
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Royal expert
Hugo Vickers told
The Sun that
Prince Harry would need to apologize to King Charles III if he hoped to move forward in their relationship. "It would be in his, and everybody else's, [best] interests if somehow he could form some sort of personal reconciliation with his father," Vickers said.
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When King Charles III was first diagnosed with cancer,
Prince Harry traveled to London to meet with him, but the duo didn't reunite again until 20 months later. Hugo Vickers pointed out that in his memoir,
Spare, Harry said that his father told him, "Don't make my last years miserable." Explained the royalist, "If something happens to the King and
Prince Harry has not reconciled with him, then he's going to be bearing more sort of guilt and remorse and things."
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Hugo Vickers continued of
Prince Harry, "He's got enough on his plate already with the death of his mother [Princess Diana] and the things that he feels about all that." The royalist added of a reconciliation between the Duke of Sussex and his father, King Charles III, "In order for that to happen, he is the one who has to apologize. He is the one who has to give assurances."
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Reconciling with King Charles III could open the door for
Prince Harry to officially return to the royal fold. "I suppose the suspicion is that, if he comes over here, he is sort of almost reestablishing himself as a member of the royal family," Hugo Vickers said, adding that "in the days when he was right in the middle of it and doing things, he was a very hardworking and successful member of the family."
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Hugo Vickers noted that during his trip to the U.K.,
Prince Harry "was wearing fine uniforms" and "looked like a prince." At his new home base in California, however, the Duke of Sussex is "just a guy in jeans with a backpack on his back … loitering in the background of one of
Meghan Markle's cooking sprees," according to the royalist.
