Prince Harry heads to Heathrow after simply 24 hours within the UK

Prince Harry is making his approach again to California after a transatlantic sprint to see his father King Charles III in London following the monarch’s shock most cancers prognosis. 

The Duke of Sussex returned to Heathrow this afternoon, having been escorted to Clarence House in a police escort from the identical airport yesterday.

Harry flew into London on a ten-hour flight from Los Angeles and arrived on the royal residence at 2.42pm yesterday earlier than spending round 45 minutes with Charles.

They had a ‘transient assembly’ earlier than the King and Camilla have been pushed to Buckingham Palace the place a helicopter was ready to take them again to Sandringham in Norfolk.

Harry, 39, had flown greater than 5,000 miles yesterday from Los Angeles to London after his father knowledgeable him of his devastating prognosis. It was their first formal assembly in particular person because the late Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral in September 2022.

The Duke did attend Charles’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in May final 12 months however was not seen interacting with the newly-crowned King and Queen.

A palace supply indicated to The Times that Harry and the King’s assembly was transient as a result of Charles was drained from a process on Monday. 

But they stated the King, 75, and Queen, 76, have been ‘coping magnificently’, including: ‘If you did not know what was the matter, you would not have any concept that he had any situation in any respect.’  

While their could have been a thaw between father and son, Harry’s journey didn’t embrace a reunion along with his brother Prince William. 

There had been hopes that it might have been an opportunity for the brothers to salvage their strained relationship.

William, 41, has remained targeted on tending to his spouse Kate, who’s recovering from her stomach surgical procedure and is taking prolonged go away from public duties till after Easter.

But the Prince of Wales returned to public work as we speak, finishing up an investiture at Windsor Castle within the morning earlier than later attending a gala for the London Air Ambulance Service within the night. 

William is predicted to talk about his father’s charity prognosis for the primary time. 

Last evening, it was claimed that Harry ‘would have gladly accepted’ a reunion along with his brother William however as a substitute has ‘spent an evening in a London lodge’.

Harry, who was pictured being pushed into Clarence House yesterday, didn’t spend the evening in any royal residence, with him being successfully homeless on UK soil since his eviction from Frogmore Cottage final 12 months.

It is assumed he could have as a substitute stayed in a luxurious lodge.

The duke is now making his approach again to his Montecito residence in California, the place he can be reunited along with his spouse Meghan Markle and two kids Archie, 4, and Lilibet, two, following his pit cease in London. 

Harry is ready to affix Meghan in Canada subsequent week for an occasion to commemorate a 12 months till the Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler.

Although Harry and the Prince of Wales didn’t meet in the course of the Duke’s keep, it’s understood mutual buddy Mark Dyer – who was a mentor to the princes after the dying of Diana – may act as bridge between the siblings.

A supply instructed The Times former Welsh Guards officer Mr Dyer, who not too long ago recovered from abdomen most cancers, has been providing Harry help lately.

‘Mark can at all times be relied upon to speak sense into Harry and can be a stoic under-the-radar help for Harry in what has the propensity to be a stress-inducing time for him, the supply stated.

Those near Harry stated he would have embraced the chance to fulfill along with his brother, with an insider including: ‘The Duke’s main purpose to journey to the UK is to go to his father. If the chance have been to come up to see the Prince of Wales then the Duke would have gladly accepted it.’

It was hoped Harry’s return to Britain may assist heal wounds with King Charles and an opportunity to succeed in out to his brother Prince William amid years of strained relations.

Harry and Meghan deserted royal duties in early 2020 to dwell within the US. The duke has been important of his household in TV interviews and his e-book, Spare, which was revealed final 12 months.

The bombshell e-book featured staggering insights into the prince’s relationship along with his father and brother. 

Harry has barely spoken along with his father because the dying of Queen Elizabeth II and it’s reported there was no contact when he celebrated his thirty ninth birthday in September.

Charles had known as him personally to inform him the devastating information and the Duke of Sussex instantly jumped on a aircraft so he may get to the UK as quickly as doable.

A luxurious Range Rover believed to be carrying the British royal was seen arriving at LAX’s VIP terminal on Monday evening and he boarded the earliest flight so he may very well be in London by lunchtime on Tuesday.

Harry was accompanied by police safety regardless of his ongoing row with the Home Office.

In Spare, Harry had revealed that Charles had urged his warring sons: ‘Please boys, do not make my remaining years a distress.’ And his journey could have been motivated by that plea.

Daily Mail Diary editor Richard Eden stated yesterday that Harry and Charles held a ‘transient assembly’ earlier than the King returned to Sandringham.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams additionally stated: ‘I’m certain Harry will put apart the previous proper now for this severe difficulty. The Royal household – together with the Sussexes – it is so vital that everybody is pulling in the appropriate course’.

Kristina Kyriacou, the King’s former press secretary, added: ‘Charles adores Harry. He did not need any of this estrangement. If out of unhealthy information, some excellent news comes and Harry and the King and the Queen and his brother are reunited – how fantastic.’

The King had been taken to London from Sandringham by helicopter on Monday to start outpatient most cancers remedy.

He then spent Monday evening at residence in London – as household and mates revealed that the monarch stays ‘vastly constructive’ following his bombshell prognosis. 

But he could miss public duties for various months, it has been claimed.

The King and Camilla landed again at Sandringham in Norfolk at round 4.20pm yesterday, having left London instantly after the monarch met his son, Harry. 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated yesterday that he was ‘shocked and unhappy’ to listen to in regards to the King’s most cancers prognosis however revealed: ‘Thankfully this has been caught early’.

The King contacted each the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales personally to inform them of his most cancers prognosis earlier than it was introduced by Buckingham Palace at 6pm on Monday.

The Palace stated medical doctors found the most cancers throughout a medical process for an enlarged prostate final month. Sources have steered that the most cancers is in a unique a part of the King’s physique however was found in the course of the surgical procedure final week. 

Buckingham Palace stated in an announcement: ‘During The King’s latest hospital process for benign prostate enlargement, a separate difficulty of concern was famous. Subsequent diagnostic exams have recognized a type of most cancers.

‘His Majesty has as we speak commenced a schedule of standard therapies, throughout which period he has been suggested by medical doctors to postpone public-facing duties. Throughout this era, His Majesty will proceed to undertake State enterprise and official paperwork as regular.

‘The King is grateful to his medical staff for his or her swift intervention, which was made doable because of his latest hospital process. He stays wholly constructive about his remedy and appears ahead to returning to full public responsibility as quickly as doable.

‘His Majesty has chosen to share his prognosis to forestall hypothesis and within the hope it might help public understanding for all these around the globe who’re affected by most cancers.’

The palace stated the King ‘seems to be ahead to returning to full public responsibility as quickly as doable’, however it’s not but recognized whether or not it would have an effect on his attendance at occasions similar to these marking the eightieth anniversary of D-Day in June.

It is known he’ll proceed to obtain crimson packing containers and course of state paperwork throughout remedy and there are not any plans to nominate Counsellors of State.

A palace spokesman stated: ‘Regrettably, various the King’s forthcoming public engagements should be rearranged or postponed.

‘His Majesty want to apologise to all those that could also be disillusioned or inconvenienced as a consequence.’

Despite the key issues over Charles’ well being, MP Chris Bryant, who had surgical procedure for pores and skin most cancers in March 2019, instructed Sky News:  ‘I feel we must always all settle down [about the King]. Cancer will not be a dying sentence.

‘The worst day was that first evening. It does get higher.

‘With my remedy they lower a piece out of the again of my head as you already know. It was all very horrifying and I’m nonetheless right here.’

Charles has postponed all public-facing duties, however is constant with behind-the-scenes work on his crimson packing containers of state papers.

The affirmation of William’s return to official engagements can be seen as an try and sign stability throughout the monarchy regardless of the tough instances dealing with the royals.

William, the Queen and the Princess Royal would be the key royals holding the fort, together with the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

The prince carried out an investiture at Windsor Castle this morning – which is one among his personal common duties – the place former England footballer Ellen White was amongst these receiving honours.

William, who’s president of the Football Association, will make the record-scoring Lioness an MBE for companies to soccer.

Other recipients due on the ceremony embrace David Shreeve – who co-founded an environmental motion group with TV botanist David Bellamy – and Francis Dickinson – who solved an 80-year-old maritime thriller by finding the wreck of a submarine which was misplaced at sea in the course of the Second World War.

In the night, William will attend the gala fundraising dinner for London’s Air Ambulance Charity in central London in his function because the organisation’s patron.

The gala dinner is elevating funds for London’s Air Ambulance Charity’s Up Against Time enchantment, which is searching for £15 million to exchange the service’s helicopter fleet by the autumn.

William is a former air ambulance pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance and in the course of the occasion will meet crew members, former sufferers and supporters earlier than delivering a brief speech.

Anne held the fort on the royal engagements entrance yesterday, finishing up an investiture on behalf of the King at Windsor Castle earlier than visiting family-run GH Hurt & Son in Nottingham which has offered shawls for royal newborns for greater than 70 years.

She can be again out as we speak visiting the Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training Regiment at St George’s Barracks in Bicester. The Princess Royal is Colonel in Chief of The Royal Logistical Corps.