Prince Harry secretly returns to UK and meets William as Kate Middleton’s summer plans emerge – latest Royal news

King Charles and Queen Camilla have reportedly organised a picnic with their grandchildren as the royal family enjoys their summer break at Balmoral.

An insider told The Express that the activity will take place by a river on the sprawling Aberdeenshire estate in Scotland.

The Wales children will also be joined by Queen Camilla’s five grandchildren from her previous marriage, who are staying at the estate with her son Tom Parker Bowles and her daughter Laura Hopes.

The pair have not seen each other since February, when the monarch’s cancer diagnosis was announced.

During the Duke of Sussex’s most recent visit to the UK, his father declined to see him, citing his busy schedule.

An insider told the MailOnline: “Faith has always been a part of Charles’s life and something he’s explored, but since becoming King it is playing a more central role.”

They added: “That reliance on faith and quiet contemplation has become a comfort and asset to him and helps him cope with the role as he adapts to being King.”

Meghan Markle lives a relatively “isolated” life in California and keeps her friendship circle small, it has been claimed.

The Duchess of Sussex moved to the state with Prince Harry after stepping down as a working royal in 2020.

Royal expert Kinsey Schofield told Fox News Digitial: “I would describe Meghan’s personal life in California as isolated but structured.

“The qualifications to be her friend are no secret… She typically gravitates towards people that can offer her something, contribute to her personal goals. She also requires trust and privacy.

“Her friend group is small. She is friendly with Montecito locals as you never know someone’s connection or status. Everyone in Montecito has accomplished something significant to be in a position to call it home.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly “keen” to do more unofficial tours after successfully visiting Nigeria and Colombia this year.

Though carried out in their capacity as private citizens, the visits have many of the hallmarks of official royal tours and have been used to promote several charitable causes.

A source told OK! magazine: “Both Meghan and Harry are keen to do more of these tours as that’s what they love doing and what they enjoyed most about royal life.”

Royal expert Kinsey Schofield claims that she particularly regrets accusing unidentified members of the royal family of racism for allegedly speculating about the colour of Prince Archie’s skin ahead of his birth.

“Meghan does regret certain statements that she made,” Schofield told Fox News Digital. “They weren’t received in the way that she had expected and several of her comments have backfired.

“She and Prince Harry deeply regret the royal racist controversy,” Schofield added. “Meghan wanted the takeaway from their Oprah interview [in 2021] to be about her mental health. And I think Meghan regretted sitting down with The Cut [in 2022] because she provided endless commentary for her critics.”

It has been said that Prince Harry and Prince William’s recent reunion at their uncle’s funeral was “not the occasion” for them to sort out their differences.

The brothers reportedly sat at a distance in the Norfolk church as they paid their respect to Lord Robert Fellowes, who died last month at the age of 82.

Royal commentator Claire Pearsall told GB News: “Like most families, you’re always going to have the people you don’t wish to speak with.

“It’s also not the occasion for those two to have some kind of either confrontation argument or great big making up, because you take away from the fact that they were there to celebrate the life of a family member. It wasn’t about them, it was about somebody else.”

A representative for the Maori king Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII confirmed that he passed away at the age of 69 in New Zealand on Friday.

King Charles said in a statement: “I had the greatest pleasure of knowing Kiingi Tuheitia for decades.

“He was deeply committed to forging a strong future for Maori and Aotearoa New Zealand founded upon culture, traditions and healing, which he carried out with wisdom and compassion.

“His death is a particular shock in view of the fact that I had only very recently spoken to Kiingi on the telephone at the beginning of August.”

Lord Robert Fellowes’s funeral is the first time that Harry and William have seen each other since King Charles’s coronation last year.

They are said to have “kept their distance” and “sat apart at the back of St Mary’s Church after arriving very discreetly.”

The pair’s relationship has deteriorated since Harry stepped down as a working royal in 2020 and made a series of damning revelations about his family to the press.

In his 2023 memoir Spare, he claimed that his older brother physically attacked him when they got into an argument about Meghan Markle.

Prince Harry and Prince William have “reunited” for the first time this year after the Duke of Sussex secretly travelled to the UK.

The princes, who last saw each other at King Charles’s coronation, reportedly sat at a distance from each other at their uncle Lord Robert Fellowes’s funeral in Norfolk.

Lord Fellowes was married to Princess Diana’s older sister, Cynthia, and served as Queen Elizabeth II’s private secretary.

He passed away last month at the age of 82.

A royal expert has speculated that Prince Harry’s decision not to add any new material to Spare is not “an olive branch”.

The book is being released in paperback for the first time on 22 October.

Royal historian Tessa Dunlop told the Mirror: “Those who suggest that this paperback release, with no additional material, is an olive branch, are sadly mistaken.

“New material can be conciliatory; Harry might have taken the lead and opened with a different prologue, fore-fronting his regret about how things turned out, and reiterating his good wishes for Kate and the King.”

The memoir was first released in January 2023, notably before King Charles’s coronation and the royal family’s recent health troubles.