Harry says King is 'great' after they have private tea in first meeting for 19 months

Prince Harry has said the King is "great" after he reunited with his father at Clarence House for a private tea.

It was their first meeting in 19 months and lasted just 54 minutes. The last time the father and son saw each other was in February 2024 when the Duke of Sussex flew to the UK after the monarch announced his cancer diagnosis.

Harry, 40, was driven through the gates of the King's London home on Wednesday, arriving at 5.20pm, and he left at 6.14pm ahead of an engagement with the Invictus Games Foundation later in the evening where he said of his father "Yes he's great, thank you". Earlier, he had an engagement at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London, an institution with which he has close connections.

The duke has been carrying out a string of events since arriving back in Britain on Monday. He began his four-day working stay by leaving flowers at the final resting place of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, to mark the third anniversary of her death.

The King, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, travelled back to London on Wednesday from his Balmoral home, where he has been spending his summer break. The reunion came after Harry publicly expressed hopes in May of a family reconciliation, as he told the BBC the monarch would not speak to him because of his court battle over his security and that he did not know "how much longer my father has".

Since moving to the US with his wife Meghan, Harry, who stepped back as a working royal in 2020, has levelled several accusations at the King, his stepmother the Queen, his brother Prince of Wales and his sister-in-law the Princess of Wales in his Oprah interview, Netflix documentary, interviews and his autobiography Spare. The duke remains estranged from Prince William, 43, who travelled to Cardiff on Wednesday to learn about a mental health hub on World Suicide Prevention Day, with no prospect of the pair meeting.

In February 2024, Harry made the journey from his Californian home to Britain to see his father following his cancer diagnosis. Back then, Harry spent about 45 minutes with the King before the 76-year-old flew to his Sandringham country estate to recuperate from his treatment.

The meeting showed both sides were willing to put their strained relationship on hold. Read more from Sky News:Riot police clash with 'Block Everything' protesters in ParisNew Banksy artwork being removed from wall This summer, senior aides to the King and Harry were pictured in the Mail On Sunday during a meeting in London that was reportedly a step towards restoring the relationship between the duke and the Royal Family..