King Charles hasn’t had ‘a single conversation’ with Prince Harry since their reunion: ‘It was a first step, not a miracle cure,’ sources say

The long-awaited reunion might have opened the door — but it hasn’t kept the conversation going.

Weeks after King Charles III reunited with Prince Harry during a private family visit at the monarch’s Highgrove estate, father and son have yet to speak again, according to multiple sources who talked to author Rob Shuter for his Naughty But Nice Substack.

No contact after Highgrove

The private meeting on July 10 — which was confirmed by Buckingham Palace — was the first time Harry, Meghan Markle and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, had seen Charles and Queen Camilla face to face as a family in more than four years, raising hopes that their fractured relationship might finally be turning a corner.

Those expectations, however, could already be fading.

“The reunion ended, Harry flew back to California, and that was it,” a palace insider told Naughty But Nice on July 30. “There hasn’t been a single conversation since. People wanted this to be the start of something bigger, but right now there’s nothing else on the calendar.”

As Shuter wrote, “there have been no phone calls, no text messages, and no plans for another face-to-face meeting” since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their children said goodbye.

‘A first step, not a miracle cure’

A second royal source told Shuter no one involved expected years of family tension to disappear after a single visit.

“It was an important first step, not a miracle cure,” the second source said. “Everyone left feeling the meeting was worthwhile, but nobody walked away believing everything had suddenly been fixed.”

Harry traveled to the U.K. in July primarily for events marking one year to go until the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham, England.

Meghan later joined him with Archie and Lili, though she and the kids remained behind the scenes and did not step out publicly.

During their visit to Britain, the Sussexes also spent time at Althorp — Princess Diana‘s childhood home — where they visited members of Harry’s late mother’s family before returning to the U.S.

Questions remain about what comes next

While the reunion was overwhelmingly seen as a positive development for Harry and Charles more than six years after the Sussexes left Britain for America, another source warned that trust takes time to rebuild.

“The door hasn’t been slammed shut,” a third source told Shuter. “But it hasn’t been thrown wide open either. Until someone makes the next move, the relationship is standing completely still.”

But when — or whether — that next step comes anytime soon remains unclear.

Harry has long said he wants to heal the rift. “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” he told the BBC in 2025, a year after Charles started treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer.

“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has,” Harry said at the time.

Queen Camilla’s role in the reconciliation

Questions about the future of the relationship come in the wake of a report alleging Camilla remains cautious about a reconciliation.

A source told Closer in July that Harry has tried to keep communication moving through aides while hoping for an invitation to spend Christmas at Sandringham. The source also claimed, however, that “none of it is going anywhere unless Camilla signs off on it first.”

The same source alleged Camilla believes Meghan has significant influence over Harry, which concerns the queen. “The fact is, Charles relies very heavily on Camilla these days. Any decision he makes, especially when it comes to personal matters, involves her, and the fact that she doesn’t trust Meghan’s intentions is going to heavily influence how Charles proceeds — there’s no way around it,” the source said.

Royal authors have echoed similar sentiments about Camilla’s feelings toward Meghan. In 2026’s Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family, Tom Bower wrote that the queen privately told a friend Meghan had “brainwashed” Harry.

More recently, author Catherine Mayer, who wrote 2026’s Divide and Rule: Royal Women and Their Battles, said that Camilla has become indispensable to Charles, saying, “[Camilla] is a non-negotiable part of Charles’ life. There is no reconciliation with him without her.”