Prince Harry just saw King Charles for the first time in 19 months. Here’s a timeline of his and Meghan Markle’s strained relationship with the royals.

Prince Harry and King Charles have reunited.

On Wednesday, Harry had tea with the monarch during a visit to the UK. The visit is believed to be the pair’s first in-person meeting in 19 months.

It’s not yet clear what the meeting may indicate about the future of the Duke of Sussex’s strained relationship with the royal family, which was tense even before he and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back as senior royals in January 2020.

Here’s a timeline of Harry and Meghan’s relationship with the royal family.

Prince Harry appeared close to his brother growing up, though his relationship with his father was more complicated.

Prince Harry and Prince William appeared to be close in photos from their childhood.

When Princess Diana died after a run-in with the paparazzi in August 1997, the brothers seemed to grow tighter than ever, sticking to each other’s sides in the years following her death.

William said he and Harry were “uniquely bonded because of what we’ve been through” in a video released by Kensington Palace in 2017.

Charles became Harry and William’s primary parent after their mother’s death, but according to royal reporter Katie Nicholl’s book, “The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown,” he was often too “busy” to spend time with his children.

“With a busy work schedule and Camilla now very much a priority in his private diary, Charles placed too much trust in William and Harry to look after themselves,” Nicholl wrote of the king’s approach to parenting his teenage sons, which led them to get into trouble.

In their adulthood, Harry served as the best man in William and Kate Middleton’s 2011 wedding, and the trio often attended royal events together, seeming to have a close relationship. Harry once called Kate “the big sister I never had,” according to Marie Claire.

Harry and Meghan Markle started dating in July 2016.

A mutual friend brought Harry and Meghan together in 2016, and they became a couple almost immediately.

Harry confirmed his relationship with Meghan on November 8, 2016, via a statement through his spokesperson because “his girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment.”

It went on to say Markle had been subjected to harassment in news articles, comment sections of articles, and in person as people tried to gain access to her home.

Following the release of the statement, reports surfaced that William did not approve of Harry going public with his relationship. He then disputed those claims in a statement issued by Kensington Palace, according to The Telegraph.

“The Duke of Cambridge absolutely understands the situation concerning privacy and supports the need for Prince Harry to support those closest to him,” the statement said.

Harry and Meghan announced they were engaged a year later.

Harry and Meghan got married on May 19, 2018, at Windsor Castle.

At the time, Harry and Meghan’s wedding seemed to be a joyous, family affair.

Charles walked Meghan down the aisle, Prince William was Harry’s best man, and Princess Charlotte and Prince George were among the bridesmaids and page boys.

However, there was controversy in the weeks leading up to the wedding because of Meghan’s family.

Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, and half-sister, Samantha Markle, repeatedly spoke to tabloids about Meghan, and Thomas posed for staged paparazzi photos in exchange for money, according to the Daily Mail.

The Sussexes moved out of the property they shared with Prince William and Kate Middleton in November 2018.

In the early months of their marriage, Meghan and Harry lived in Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where William and Kate lived with their children.

However, shortly after Kensington Palace announced Meghan was pregnant with her first child, the Sussexes shared that they would be moving to Frogmore Cottage — 18 miles away from Kensington Palace on the grounds of Windsor Castle — on November 18, 2018.

Meghan gave birth to Prince Archie in May 2019.

In March 2019, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex split their office with the Cambridges.

Until the spring of 2019, Harry and Meghan shared a royal office with William and Kate.

In March of that year, Buckingham Palace announced that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been appointed their own royal household.

Soon after the palace announced that the couple would have their own household, The Times reported that Harry and Meghan had originally requested “entire independence” from Buckingham Palace, which the Queen had denied.

The Sussexes cut ties with the Waleses’ charity in June 2019.

Although their offices had already been split, Meghan and Harry further separated themselves from William and Kate by resigning from The Royal Foundation, which Harry and William had founded together in 2009.

Buckingham Palace confirmed the separation in a statement in June 2019.

“Later this year, The Royal Foundation will become the principal charitable and philanthropic vehicle for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,” the palace’s statement said. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will establish their own new charitable foundation with transitional operating support from The Royal Foundation.”

“In addition, both couples will continue to work together on projects in the future, including on The Foundation’s mental health programme, Heads Together,” the statement added.

In October 2019, Meghan hinted in an interview that she was unhappy, and Harry seemed to confirm his rift with William.

In the ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan: An African Journey,” Harry said he and William were “on different paths at the moment,” which appeared to confirm their rift. 

“We don’t see each other as much as we used to because we’re so busy, but I love him dearly. The majority of this stuff is created out of nothing, but as brothers, you know, you have good days, you have bad days,” he said.

In the same documentary, Meghan became emotional when interviewer Tom Bradby asked how media attention was affecting her mental and physical health, particularly after she gave birth to Archie.

“Look, any woman, especially when they’re pregnant, you’re really vulnerable, and so that was made really challenging,” she said. “And especially as a woman, it’s really — it’s a lot.”

“Also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK,” she said to Bradby. “But it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.”

Meghan and Harry announced they were stepping back as senior royals on January 8, 2020.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were stepping back from royal life in a statement on Instagram.

“After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,” the statement said. “We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.”

The BBC reported via X that the royal family was not informed of Meghan and Harry’s decision before they posted the news on social media.

Meghan and Harry also announced on their website that they would no longer participate in the royal rota system.

In response to the duke and duchess’ announcement, the royal family said there were “complicated issues that will take time to work through” in a statement from the royal communications office obtained by Business Insider.

On January 13, 2020, William and Harry released a joint statement addressing allegations that Harry and Meghan had been “bullied” out of the family.

The brothers released a statement to royal reporter Rebecca English in response to an article from the Times of London that said Harry and Meghan had been “bullied” out of the royal family.

“Despite clear denials, a false story ran in a UK newspaper today speculating about the relationship between The Duke of Sussex and The Duke of Cambridge,” a statement from a spokesperson for the princes said. “For brothers who care so deeply about the issues surrounding mental health, the use of inflammatory language in this way is offensive and potentially harmful.”

“It’s clear from my conversations this morning that BOTH brothers are deeply, deeply unhappy about suggestions that Harry feels he has been ‘bullied’ out of the Royal Family by William,” English added in an X post.

On January 18, 2020, Queen Elizabeth said she supported the Sussexes’ “wish for a more independent life.”

“Following many months of conversations and more recent discussions, I am pleased that together we have found a constructive and supportive way forward for my grandson and his family,” a statement from the Queen said.

“Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved members of my family,” the Queen continued. “I recognise the challenges they have experienced as a result of intense scrutiny over the last two years and support their wish for a more independent life.”

“I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealth and beyond, and am particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickly become one of the family,” the statement read. “It is my whole family’s hope that today’s agreement allows them to start building a happy and peaceful new life.”

In addition to the Queen’s personal statement, Buckingham Palace shared a statement clarifying that Harry and Meghan would be completely stepping back from their royal duties beginning in the spring of 2020. It also said they would no longer be receiving public funds, and they planned to pay back the Sovereign Grant for their Frogmore Cottage renovations.

The statement said Buckingham Palace would not comment on the details of the Sussexes’ security arrangements. “There are well established independent processes to determine the need for publicly-funded security,” it said.

Meghan and Harry didn’t speak to William and Kate at their final engagement as working royals on March 9, 2020.

Meghan and Harry attended a Commonwealth Day event alongside Charles, William, and Kate Middleton.

The Sussexes and Cambridges were near each other throughout the event, but they did not speak and barely made eye contact.

The pairs typically chatted at royal events, and Meghan and Kate even hugged at the 2019 Commonwealth Day ceremony.

Harry and Meghan moved to California shortly after the event, and they bought their first home in Montecito in July 2020. They became fully financially independent from the royal family in September 2020 when they paid back $3 million of taxpayer money they had used to renovate Frogmore Cottage.

Meghan’s legal team said she was “unprotected by the Institution” in court documents in July 2020.

At the time, Meghan was suing the Mail on Sunday over the misuse of private information, infringement of copyright, and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018 after it published a letter she wrote to her father following her wedding in 2018.

In July 2020, Meghan’s legal team filed a court document that said she felt “unprotected by the Institution.”

“The Claimant had become the subject of a large number of false and damaging articles by the UK tabloid media, specifically by the Defendant, which caused tremendous emotional distress and damage to her mental health,” a legal spokesperson for the duchess said in the document obtained by Business Insider.

“As her friends had never seen her in this state before, they were rightly concerned for her welfare, specifically as she was pregnant, unprotected by the Institution, and prohibited from defending herself,” they added.

Days before Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was set to air, reports surfaced that Buckingham Palace was investigating claims Meghan bullied palace staff.

Four days before the Sussexes’ interview with Winfrey aired on CBS, Buckingham Palace announced it was investigating allegations that Meghan bullied two senior royal staff members, which was first reported by The Times of London.

Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex denied the allegations through a spokesperson in a statement to The Times and said it was “no coincidence” the palace announced it was investigating the allegations ahead of the couple’s interview with Winfrey.

“Let’s just call this what it is — a calculated smear campaign based on misleading and harmful misinformation,” the spokesperson said in a statement obtained by The Times, adding that Meghan was “saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself.”

Harry and Meghan’s interview with Winfrey aired on March 7, 2021, and they made multiple bombshell allegations about the royal family.

During their tell-all interview with Winfrey, the duke and duchess opened up about their experience in the royal family.

In the interview, Harry and Meghan said members of the royal family made racist remarks about Archie’s skin tone before he was born. Harry later clarified that his grandparents didn’t make the comments.

They also said the firm disregarded Meghan’s mental health issues, with Meghan saying she had suicidal thoughts and that when she asked a senior member of the institution for help, the staffer told her she could not seek help because it would not look good for the monarchy.

In addition, Meghan said that Kate made her cry during the week of her wedding over a disagreement about Princess Charlotte’s dress, disputing reports that Meghan made Kate cry.

Prince Harry also said his father stopped taking his phone calls before he and Meghan stepped back.

Buckingham Palace issued a statement about the interview two days after it aired.

“The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan,” the statement from Buckingham Palace said.

“The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning,” it went on to say. “While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.”

“Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members,” the statement added.

On March 11, Prince William told Sky News North of England correspondent Inzamam Rashid that he hadn’t spoken to Prince Harry following the interview but that he would.

“And can you just let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir?” Rashid responded.

“We’re very much not a racist family,” William said.

Prince Harry and Prince William spoke briefly at Prince Philip’s funeral on April 17, 2021.

Harry reunited with his family after Prince Philip died on April 9, 2021.

He attended the funeral at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on April 17, 2021, though he and William did not walk next to each other during the processional. Instead, their cousin, Peter Philips, walked between them.

Harry was also spotted briefly walking and speaking with William and Kate after the ceremony, but according to royal historian Robert Lacey’s book, “Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult,” the couple didn’t speak to Harry after the funeral because they feared the conversation would be “leaked.”

According to royal biographer Katie Nicholl’s book “The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown,” William and Kate also didn’t attend an impromptu wake with Harry and other royals, including Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, and Zara and Mike Tindall.

Prince Harry revealed new details about his and his wife’s mental health struggles when “The Me You Can’t See” premiered on May 21, 2021.

In the third episode of the Apple TV+ series, which premiered on May 21, 2021, Harry spoke candidly about his relationship with his father, revealing that Charles often told him and Prince William when they were children, “Well, it was like that for me, so it’s going to be like that for you.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” Harry said of his father’s refrain. “Just because you suffered doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer.”

“In fact, quite the opposite,” he went on to say. “If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids.”

In episode five, Harry shared that he woke up to Meghan crying before their interview with Winfrey aired because of a “smear campaign” from British tabloids and the firm, the institution that supports the monarchy.

“Before the interview, because of their headlines and that combined effort of the firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying in her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much,” Harry said of Meghan.

“That’s heartbreaking,” he added. “I held her. We talked. She cried, and she cried, and she cried.”

Members of the royal family congratulated Harry and Meghan on their daughter’s birth in June 2021.

Meghan and Harry welcomed their daughter in June 2021. She was named Lilibet Diana after her grandmother and great-grandmother; Lilibet was Queen Elizabeth’s family nickname.

Members of the royal family offered their congratulations online.

“Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the birth of Lilibet Diana!” the royal family wrote on its official Instagram on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, her son, Camilla, and William and Kate.

Charles and Camilla, as well as William and Kate, also congratulated the Sussexes in their own Instagram post, in which they didn’t use Meghan and Harry’s royal titles.

Prince William and Prince Harry reunited to unveil a statue for Princess Diana on July 1, 2021.

For Princess Diana’s 60th birthday, William and Harry came together at Kensington Palace to unveil a statue made in their mother’s honor.

The brothers released a rare joint statement for the occasion.

“Today, on what would have been our mother’s 60th birthday, we remember her love, strength, and character — qualities that made her a force for good around the world, changing countless lives for the better,” the brothers said. “Every day, we wish she were still with us, and our hope is that this statue will be seen forever as a symbol of her life and her legacy.”

Harry and William attended the event without any royal family members, including their wives, though they were joined by Diana’s siblings, Charles Spencer, Sarah McCorquodale, and Jane Fellowes.

A spokesperson for Charles said he did not speculate on Archie’s skin color in November 2021.

In November 2021, Christopher Andersen published “Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan.”

In the book, Andersen wrote that a well-placed palace source told him that Harry’s father speculated on Archie’s skin tone.

According to the source, on Meghan and Harry’s wedding day, Charles asked Camilla, “I wonder what the children will look like?”

Camilla was “somewhat taken aback” by the question and responded that they would be, “Well, absolutely gorgeous, I’m certain,” the source told Andersen.

“I mean, what do you think their children’s complexion might be?” Charles responded, according to the unnamed source who spoke to Andersen.

When Page Six reported on the claim, a representative for Charles said: “This is fiction and not worth further comment.”

The palace also consulted lawyers about the allegation, royal writer Omid Scobie wrote on X at the time.

Charles said he was proud of Harry in January 2022.

In a personal essay about the climate crisis published by Newsweek on January 4, 2022, Charles honored William and Harry’s conservation efforts.

“As a father, I am proud that my sons have recognized this threat,” he wrote. “And my younger son, Harry, has passionately highlighted the impact of climate change, especially in relation to Africa, and committed his charity to being net zero.”

Nigel Cawthorne, the royal biographer who wrote “Prince Philip: I Know I Am Rude,” told Business Insider that Charles’ comments about Harry indicated he was working toward a resolution.

“Charles is clearly realizing that he has to take on the conciliatory role of the grown-up that Prince Philip used to have,” Cawthorne told Business Insider at the time.

“Like his father, he is realizing that letting emotions fester will be the downfall of the Windsors. Prince Philip used what the Queen called his ‘cheeky humor’ to unruffle feathers, even with Harry and William’s mother, Diana,” Cawthorne said. “Charles will have to find his own way in keeping the family together rather than let it grow apart over quibbles.”

Harry and Meghan privately visited Queen Elizabeth during a trip to Europe on April 14, 2022.

A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed to Business Insider that Harry and Meghan visited the Queen in April 2022 while they were in Europe for the Invictus Games, a competition for injured service personnel founded by Harry.

Katie Nicholl’s “New Royals” revealed that the Duke of Sussex also saw Charles and Camilla during the visit.

“Harry went in with hugs and the best of intentions and said he wanted to clear the air,” a friend of the royal family told Nicholl of the prince’s approach to his meeting with his father and stepmother.

“He actually suggested that they use a mediator to try and sort things out, which had Charles somewhat bemused and Camilla spluttering into her tea,” the friend told Nicholl.

“She told Harry it was ridiculous and that they were a family and would sort it out between themselves,” the same friend said, according to Nicholl.

After the visit, Harry said he wanted to ensure the Queen was “protected” and avoided a question about his brother.

On April 20, 2022, Harry discussed his visit with his grandmother during an interview with NBC for the “Today” show.

“Being with her, it was great, it was just so nice to see her,” Harry said of the Queen. “She’s on great form. She’s always got a great sense of humor with me, and I’m just making sure that she’s, you know, protected, and got the right people around her.”

“We have a really special relationship, we talk about things she can’t talk about with anyone else,” he added.

In the same interview, Hoda Kotb asked Harry if he missed his father and brother since moving to the US, and Harry seemed to avoid the question by talking about the Invictus Games.

“For me, in the moment, I’m here, focused on these guys and these families and giving everything that I can — 120% — to them to make sure they have the experience of a lifetime,” Harry responded.

In June 2022, the Sussexes attended the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, reuniting them with the royal family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew to the UK with their children for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

On June 3, 2022, they made their first joint appearance at a royal event since 2020 for the Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral in honor of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.

Although they attended the service, they didn’t attend a luncheon for the royals after the event. Charles and Camilla also met Princess Lilibet during the trip.

Prince Harry reunited with the royal family after Queen Elizabeth died on September 8, 2022.

Queen Elizabeth died on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. Buckingham Palace said she “died peacefully at Balmoral” in Scotland.

Members of the royal family, including Harry, rushed to Balmoral after the Queen’s doctors said they were concerned about her.

Harry was unable to see the Queen before she died. The palace announced she died at 6:30 p.m. local time, and Harry’s flight did not arrive in Scotland until 6:46 p.m., according to flight-tracking data published by The Daily Beast and Mail Online.

The Duke of Sussex was reunited with the new King Charles, Prince William, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, at Balmoral.

Meghan and Harry stayed in the UK for the Queen’s funeral events.

King Charles voiced his love for Meghan and Harry in his first address as monarch on September 9, 2022.

King Charles gave his first address to the UK as monarch the day after his mother’s death.

In the speech, he paid tribute to his mother, bestowed the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales on William and Kate, and expressed his love for Harry and Meghan.

“I want to also express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas,” Charles said after announcing William was taking over his title.

Harry and Meghan made a surprise appearance with Kate and William on September 10, 2022, their first in over two years.

On September 10, Meghan and Harry joined William and Kate for an impromptu walkabout at Windsor Castle to greet well-wishers.

A spokesperson for the new Prince of Wales told The Times of London that William personally invited Harry and Meghan to join the walk, which marked their first joint appearance as couples in years.

Royal expert Marlene Koenig told Business Insider the moment of unity likely wasn’t a sign of a permanently mended relationship.

“I don’t think there’s been a reconciliation,” Koenig said. “I’m sure it was insanely uncomfortable for all of them.”

Meghan and Harry were later spotted with King Charles at Buckingham Palace.

King Charles granted Harry an exception to wear his military regalia to stand vigil for his grandmother on September 16, 2022.

In the days after the Queen’s death, a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex told Business Insider that Prince Harry would wear a morning suit to all funeral services for his grandmother, not military attire, since he is no longer a working royal.

“Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex will wear a morning suit throughout events honouring his grandmother,” the spokesperson said. “His decade of military service is not determined by the uniform he wears, and we respectfully ask that focus remain on the life and legacy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”

On September 12, The Telegraph reported that only working members of the royal family would be permitted to wear military attire to the Queen’s funeral events. However, an exception had been made for Prince Andrew, who would get to wear military dress at a final vigil held at Westminster Hall despite being stripped of his military titles earlier that year.

Then, on September 16, ahead of a vigil at Westminster Hall attended by Queen Elizabeth’s eight grandchildren, royal reporter Rebecca English said that both William and Harry would wear their military attire to the service “at the King’s request.”

The stunning reversal seemed like an indication that the royal family was making amends in the wake of the Queen’s death, but Roya Nikkah reported for The Sunday Times on September 18, 2022, that Harry’s uniform was missing an “ER” pin, Queen Elizabeth’s initials.

The missing pin meant that Harry was initially not meant to wear his uniform for the ceremony, despite serving for over 10 years in the British military.

An unnamed friend of Harry told Nikkah that the prince was “heartbroken” that the pin was left off the uniform, and he considered not wearing it at all out of “humiliation” since the absence of the pin seemed “intentional.”

When “Harry & Meghan” premiered on Netflix on December 8, 2022, the streaming company and unnamed royal sources disagreed about its production.

The Netflix docuseries premiered in two volumes, with three episodes dropping on December 8 and three dropping on December 15.

At the beginning of episode one, two screen cards appeared with disclaimers about the production.

“This is a first-hand account of Harry & Meghan’s story, told with never before seen personal archive,” the first card read. “All interviews were completed by August 2022,” a month before Queen Elizabeth’s death.

A second disclaimer then appeared: “Members of the Royal Family declined to comment on the content within this series.” The disclaimer did not note which royal family members were contacted before the show’s release.

After the premiere, multiple outlets, such as People, The Independent, and Page Six, reported that unnamed sources said Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace were not asked for comment on the series’ contents. The palaces did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on the matter.

An anonymous royal source said to People that the two palaces’ offices received an email from an unnamed third-party production company, but “the substance of the email did not address the entire series.” The source went on to tell People that the palaces then contacted Archewell and Netflix about the email, but they got no response to their inquiry.

A Netflix source told Business Insider that Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace were contacted specifically about the show and given the opportunity to comment on its content.

In the series, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed they had been trying to leave the UK since 2018.

Harry and Meghan moved away from the UK in March 2020 after stepping back as senior royals.

However, in episode five of “Harry & Meghan,” they shared that they had considered moving to three Commonwealth countries to continue working for the Queen outside the UK.

Harry and Meghan said they presented the royal family with a plan for them to move to New Zealand in 2018, South Africa in the spring of 2019, and, finally, Canada at the end of 2019.

“The family and their people knew that we were trying to find a different way of working for a minimum of two years,” Harry said.

Harry said the Queen’s, Charles’, and Prince William’s offices approved their plan to move to South Africa, and each office signed off on an “internal document” regarding the move.

However, Harry said the document was leaked to The Times in April 2019, so the move was canceled.

“Then that whole plan was then scrapped because it’s now become a public debate,” Harry said. “Once plans like that become public debates, nine times out of 10, it’s gonna fail.”

The plan to move to Canada was also leaked in January 2020, which frustrated Harry because he had asked his father if he could avoid putting the plan in writing. Charles said he couldn’t make the move happen without it being written down.

Harry sent his father details about the move on January 1, 2, and 3, 2020, and The Sun published a story about it by January 7. Harry and Meghan stepped back as senior royals the next day.

Harry also said he had nothing to do with a joint statement released by the palace with his and William’s names on it after he and Meghan stepped back as senior royals.

In episode five, Harry addressed the “joint” statement a Kensington Palace representative gave Rebecca English about allegations that William had bullied the Sussexes out of the royal family.

Harry said no one asked his permission to add his name to the statement, and he was shocked to hear about it.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said, adding that he called Meghan to tell her about the statement after he heard about it.

“She burst into floods of tears,” the prince said of Meghan’s reaction. “Within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother, and yet for three years, they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.”

Harry said William yelled at him during the Sandringham Summit in January 2020.

After Harry and Meghan announced their step back on social media, senior members of the royal family gathered at Sandringham House in January 2020 to discuss what Meghan and Harry’s futures as members of the royal family would be.

In episode five of “Harry & Meghan,” Harry said the conversations were not productive, particularly because of William’s reaction.

“It became very clear very quickly that that goal was not up for discussion or debate,” Harry said. “It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me.”

“I mean, the saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother so that he’s now on the institution’s side,” he said. “And part of that, I get. I understand, right? That’s his inheritance.”

“So, to some extent, it’s already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and the continuation of this institution,” he added.

In January 2023, Harry released his memoir “Spare,” which included intimate details about his relationship with his father and brother.

Penguin Random House published Harry’s memoir “Spare” on January 10, 2023, and it became the publisher’s fastest-selling nonfiction book to date.

In the memoir, Harry shared intimate details of his life and relationship with other royals. For instance, he shared that Charles didn’t hug him after Princess Diana died and that he and William tried to convince their father not to marry Camilla.

His recollections of his relationship with William were particularly shocking, as Harry described him as his “beloved brother” and “arch nemesis.” Harry also wrote that William physically attacked him during an argument in 2019 and that they barely spoke at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.

Harry attended Charles’ coronation without Meghan on May 6, 2023.

King Charles III’s coronation took place at Westminster Abbey, and both Harry and Meghan were invited.

However, Harry came on behalf of the Sussexes, while Meghan stayed with their children in California, which royal experts told Business Insider was a “brilliant” PR strategy.

The Duke of Sussex was only in London for 28 hours, and although he was not seen interacting with the king or Prince William, he chatted with his cousins and aunt, Princess Anne.

Harry visited his father briefly after King Charles announced he had been diagnosed with cancer.

King Charles announced he had been diagnosed with cancer on February 5, 2024.

The following day, Harry visited the king for 45 minutes at Clarence House, seemingly the first time they had seen each other since Charles’ coronation in May 2023.

“The fact that I was able to get on a plane and go and see him and spend any time with him, I’m grateful for that,” Harry told Good Morning America of the visit on February 16.

Harry also said that the king told him about his cancer directly.

Harry said he wanted “reconciliation” with the royal family in May 2025.

On May 2, Harry lost his legal challenge requesting automatic security for his family when they visit the UK.

In a statement shared with Business Insider, Harry said “this legal action has been a last resort, but one that has uncovered shocking truths,” pointing to the role the royal household plays in decisions made by the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC). He also said he, Meghan, and their children continue to be the subject of “neo-Nazi and extremist threats,” putting them in danger without ample security.

“The UK is my birthplace and will always be part of who I am,” he said. “It is a place I love, and the country where my son was born. I’ve only ever wanted to continue my charitable work in supporting the causes and people that mean so much to me, and for my children to know the beauty of my homeland.”

Harry also discussed the ruling and how his security issues have affected his relationship with the royals in an interview with BBC News, saying he “can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point.”

He added that he “would love a reconciliation” with the royal family but that his battle for security in the UK is “the sticking point” in their relationship.

“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. They will never forgive me for lots of things,” he said, adding that King Charles isn’t speaking to him “because of this security stuff.”

“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has,” he said.

Charles and Harry reunited for the first time in 19 months at Clarence House on September 10, 2025.

Four months after Harry said King Charles wasn’t speaking to him, the pair reunited. Their last publicly known meeting was in February 2024, marking 19 months since the father and son had last seen each other.

Harry was photographed arriving in an SUV at Clarence House on September 10, 2025, where he apparently had tea with his father. People reported that the duke was inside Clarence House for just under an hour.

Neither Buckingham Palace nor representatives for the Duke of Sussex have shared information about what went on between Harry and the king during the meeting.

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