{"id":4600,"date":"2026-07-15T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:38:43","slug":"prince-william-remains-no-contact-with-brother-harry-during-uk-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"Prince William remains \u2018no contact\u2019 with brother Harry during UK visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>As last week\u2019s meeting between Prince Harry and King Charles III approached, royal watchers wondered whether the family reunion would at some point include Prince William.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4598\">Tips: What to do if your boat capsizes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer was \u2014 and appears to remain \u2014 a resounding No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0King reunites with his grandchildren but denies Harry and Meghan their photo op<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so broken,\u201d a royal insider told People in an interview, regarding the brothers\u2019 relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it would have perhaps eased a little bit by now, to be honest,\u201d a separate source, who knows both brothers, told the outlet. \u201cBut there has been no movement, especially on William\u2019s side. There is no contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted Harry, wife Meghan Markle and their children, 7-year-old Prince Archie and 5-year-old Princess Lilibet, last Friday at Highgrove House. It was the first time the monarch had seen his grandchildren in four years, and it took lengthy haggling over Harry\u2019s security concerns to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William was reportedly irritated that his father had met with his estranged brother and doubled down on their rift. While Harry and family were sipping tea with the King and Queen at their private residence in Gloucestershire west of London, William played in a charity polo match in Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4596\">Google Search AI poses \u2018unacceptable risk\u2019 to kids, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two princes have spent their lifetimes under public scrutiny that intensified after their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997 while evading paparazzi. William was 15 and Harry was 12. They had reportedly been inseparable throughout their childhood.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two grew apart as adults, especially after Harry and Meghan opted out of royal life and duties in 2020 and decamped to California. The rift between Harry and his family grew wider after the couple aired a lot of royal dirty laundry in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, followed by the release of Harry\u2019s memoir, \u201cSpare,\u201d in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0Kate Middleton probably didn\u2019t prepare her kids to be booed by protesters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles, who is still undergoing cancer treatment following his February 2024 diagnosis with an undisclosed form of the disease, has been anxious to heal the family rift. While Harry flew to London when his father was first diagnosed, they did not meet again for 19 months, in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>By default the rift is multigenerational, since William and Princess of Wales Kate Middleton\u2019s three kids have \u201cno relationship\u201d with their first cousins, royal author Simon Vigar told People, noting that especially in light of her sons\u2019 onetime closeness, \u201cDiana would be devastated that it has turned out like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4594\">Sen. Warren calls for probe into Fed\u2019s outside review of Silicon Valley Bank failure<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princes Harry and William have had &#8216;no contact&#8217; even after King Charles met with Harry, wife Meghan Markle and their young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, last Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prince William remains \u2018no contact\u2019 with brother Harry during UK visit - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4600\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prince William remains \u2018no contact\u2019 with brother Harry during UK visit - 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