THE Duke of Sussex is ending his four-day trip to the UK by paying tribute to his mother Princess Diana.
Harry arrived at the bash in London today just hours after meeting King Charles for their first face-to-face chat in 19 months.
The Duke of Sussex has arrived to take part in a panel discussion on how social action positively impacts mental health[/caption]
Harry has rounded off his four-day visit at an engagement in the capital celebrating the Diana Award[/caption]
The Duke saw his father in Clarence House, London, after the King flew from Balmoral between three official audiences.
And today, the King’s youngest son will round off his four-day visit at an engagement in the capital celebrating the Diana Award.
Prince William was not at the tea party as he was travelling back from an engagement in Wales – and he will not join his brother today.
Harry had not seen Charles since he jetted back for 30 minutes last February, after the King’s cancer announcement.
Yesterday’s bombshell meeting, a “private tea” between the two, lasted 55 minutes – almost double the time Harry got last year.
After arriving late at a glitzy Invictus Games reception hours after the reunion, Harry said of the King, “yes he’s great, thank you”.
Charles, 76, dramatically broke from his Scottish break to see his long-lost son yesterday afternoon.
Charles was pictured boarding a royal jet shortly before 2pm and landing at RAF Northolt an hour later – without the Queen.
The King was seen being driven into Clarence House at around 3.45pm, before he held a meeting with the Privy Council.
He then carried out an investiture with 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg at 4.15pm.
Meanwhile, Harry, 40, was seen in the backseat of his Range Rover being driven into the King’s home through the gates at 5.21pm.
Sources claim the pair chatted and shared tea, before Harry was seen being driven away at 6.14pm.
It means The Duke flew 5,000 miles from Los Angeles to spend just 53 minutes inside his father’s home.
Sources close to the King and Prince Harry have remained tight-lipped about the reunion.
Harry and the King’s spokesman confirmed the pair met for a “private tea” at Clarence House, but refused to comment any further.
Just 15 minutes after Harry left Clarence House, the King held an audience with the premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas.
Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, said the reunion showed the King’s “soft side”.
She told The Sun: “Charles had to see his son at some point.
“He isn’t going to get any younger and he wants to meet his grandchildren as a family man and father.
“For this entire trip, Harry has been trying very hard to get on everyone’s good side with events and donations.
“Part of their meeting must have just been to break the ice. That he is willing to welcome Prince Harry shows Charles’ soft side.
“It’s difficult to have an in depth conversation if you haven’t seen someone for so long… when you haven’t spoken for 19 months.
“It’s still a positive step, but a necessary step.”
Charles is set to return to Balmoral today, meaning Harry only had a small window of opportunity to see his father.
It comes almost two months since Harry’s spin doctors were photographed meeting the King’s communications chief.
Just 20 minutes before Harry arrived at Clarence House, Sophie the Duchess of Edinburgh was seen leaving.
The Duke said of the King ‘Yes he’s great, thank you’[/caption]
Tellingly, Harry and his driver, Barack Obama’s former bodyguard Christopher Sanchez, were made to use the visitor’s entrance.
And they were not driven in through the gate on The Mall, used earlier by the King and Sophie, for members of the Royal Family.
Harry was late to arrive to the Invictus Games bash after getting stuck in traffic after the chat with his father.
The Duke, who stepped down as a senior working royal in 2020, no longer benefits from blue-light police escorts.
He made his guests laugh when he said: “I think this whole thing has been delayed slightly.
“At this point you’re all hammered – which was part of the plan all along, stuck up here at the top of the Gherkin.”
Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales met with the Jac Lewis Foundation in the Welsh capital as he marked World Suicide Prevention Day.
Jac was just 27 years old when he took his own life in February 2019 after five years of struggling with his mental health.
‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’
By Matt Wilkinson, The Sun’s Royal Editor
FOR all of Harry’s multiple appearances in front of the camera this week he only had one Mission:Impossible – to be seen meeting his father.
The Duke has faced every camera possible since landing on Monday and followed the late Queen’s mantra being seen to be believed rather than his post-Megxit stance of being seen to be aggrieved.
Charles gave him only one small window of opportunity as he was due to fly down from Balmoral on Wednesday afternoon for a series of audiences.
And Harry, who had a three-hour gap in the afternoon between events nine miles either side of London during Tube strikes, grabbed it.
It is not important that the meeting between father and son only lasted only 53 minutes – which is almost double the time he got 19 months ago.
It is not even important to know what they spoke about during their ‘private tea’.
What is important for Harry is that he makes the world aware that the King invited him for tea and he accepted.
This is no end of a rift, it isn’t heralding Harry’s return to the UK and is not the King forgiving his son for five years of trashing the Royals.
But Harry has barely paused for breath this week including hugging with sick children, giving a jig at a community centre, making several speeches and even donating £1.1m to Children In Need.
And if he had flown home today without seeing the King it would for Harry the trip would have been a failure and a disaster.
Instead for the California-based royal who has thrown on his family for the past five years he will feel its mission accomplished.
In the wake of his passing, his dad Jesse Lewis and some of his teammates set up The Jac Lewis Foundation later that year.
The foundation, which runs the hub, is backed by the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
At the same time, Harry was pictured chatting outside the Sir Michael Uren Hub in White City, London.
He received an update on the work of the Centre for Injury Studies and its recent focus on paediatric blast and crush injuries.
The Duke was shown the research for child amputees and what is being done to maximise learning for conflict and disaster zones.
The brothers attended similar engagements yesterday and were just eight miles apart as they paid tributes to the late Queen on Monday.
Harry has barely spoken to his family since Megxit in 2020, which saw him and Meghan step down as working royals and move to the US.
The Duke slated the royals in his memoir Spare, including claiming he was knocked to the ground in a fight with William.
He also dumped on his family in a six-part Netflix series and Oprah Winfrey interview.
