Prince Harry planned a secret dinner with his father Prince Charles after a year of acrimony, according to a royal source.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly arranged to meet his father while he was in the UK for the unveiling of a statue of his late mother, Princess Diana, in Kensington Gardens.
Relations have been strained between Harry and his father after a series of explosive TV interviews.
Harry accused his father of letting him “suffer” when he was growing up, and has accused the royal family of neglect and racism during media attacks.
A one-on-one dinner in London was planned between father and son, according to the Daily Mail.
Prince Charles was reportedly in Scotland when the statue ceremony took place on July 1st, but a royal source told Mail that he planned to travel back to London.
The point of the dinner was reportedly to “thrash things out” after a difficult year in their relationship.
Charles was said to be “dreading” the meeting in case he said the wrong thing.
However, it is not clear whether the dinner went ahead as planned, and an aide to Charles declined to answer questions about it last night.
Harry has had a tense relationship with his family since stepping back from his royal duties last year and moving to the United States with his wife Meghan Markle, who has just given birth to their second child, Lilibet.
In an interview with US host Oprah Winfrey in May, Harry said: "My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, 'Well it was like that for me so it's going to be like that for you'", Harry said.
"That doesn't make sense. Just because you suffered doesn't mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite.
"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", he added.
Harry and Meghan's second child, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who is now five weeks old, takes her first name from the childhood nickname of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.
The name was seen as a gesture of love and respect towards the Queen, though whether the Sussexes told the Queen about the name before it was announced to the public has been disputed.
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