rince Harry has met his father King Charles at Clarence House in London on Wednesday for their first face to face meeting since February 2024.

The clues have been scattered all over the place in recent months.

In his BBC interview in May, there was a distinct shift in tone from the prince.

After the years of raw, emotional media appearances, the Netflix documentary series, the searing criticism of the royal family in his memoir Spare, this was a different Prince Harry in front of the cameras.

“I would love a reconciliation with my family,” he said. “There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore. Life is precious.”

Prince Harry had made his position clear. He wanted to see his father but was the King feeling the same way?

A photograph in the Mail on Sunday in July showed the media communications team representing Prince Harry meeting in London with the King’s communications director. Two rival camps coming together and the image finding its way onto the front page of a national newspaper.

Both sides denied leaking the photo but what it did was show there was a dialogue. A channel of communication between both camps had opened.

And there has been a unified silence from both sides in recent days that has also been telling.

Neither side would be drawn on a date or time of any reunion.

We were making educated guesses on when father and son might meet based on gaps in their diaries and who was planning to be where geographically.

In a family fallout riddled with mistrust and rancour, the two camps stayed very tight lipped about the possibility of a meeting.

Their mutual silence held.