The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are set to bring their children to the UK for the first time in four years, according to reports. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will travel from California with Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, to attend celebrations marking the one-year countdown to next year's Invictus Games in Birmingham.
Archie and Lilibet last saw their grandfather, King Charles III, in person during Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. Harry had previously expressed hopes of bringing his children from the US but insisted it was too dangerous amid his legal fight over UK security arrangements. However, the duke has reportedly been assured that adequate security provision will be in place for the trip.
Royal reunion possible
It is not yet known whether the King will meet his youngest grandchildren during their stay. The trip comes after Harry reunited with Charles, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, last September for the first time in 19 months.
When the duke lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the Home Office over his security arrangements in the UK in 2025, he gave a BBC interview expressing hopes of reconciliation with his family. At that time, he revealed that Charles would not speak to him because of his court battle over security, and added he "can't see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK."
Strained family relations
Harry, who stepped down from the working monarchy in 2020, has levelled a barrage of accusations at the King, his stepmother Queen Camilla, brother Prince William, and sister-in-law Princess Kate in his Oprah interview, Netflix documentary, interviews, and autobiography Spare since moving to the US.
Harry previously claimed Charles was jealous of Meghan and Kate, did not hug him when he told him his mother Diana, Princess of Wales had died, and said he believed the King was "never made" for single parenthood, but "to be fair, he tried." Charles, according to the duke, pleaded with his sons during a tense meeting after the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral: "Please, boys. Don't make my final years a misery."
Harry, who claimed in his memoir that William physically attacked him and pushed him into a dog bowl, remains estranged from his brother.
Invictus Games in Birmingham
The Invictus Games, a sporting competition for wounded, injured, and sick service personnel and veterans, will be staged in Birmingham next year from July 10 to 17. The duke's spokesperson has yet to comment on the reported visit.
