KING Charles is unlikely to let Harry back into the royal fold should the pair meet in London this week, a royal expert has claimed.
The Royal Family can’t trust the Duke of Sussex for fear anything they say will be used in his next tell all, historian Hugo Vickers said.
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Harry jetted into the UK yesterday, on the three-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
While Harry visited his grandmother’s grave, the Prince and Princess of Wales were hosting an event in the late Queen’s honour just eight miles away.
And the King is set to return to London from his Scottish break this week while Harry is in the UK – sparking speculation the two could meet.
However, Hugo Vickers – a royal expert and the author of several bestselling royal autobiographies – says Charles should tread carefully.
He says that the Royal Family “doesn’t trust” Harry anymore, after the Prince gave out personal “information” about them in his autobiography Spare.
Faced with the prospect of a second bombshell book, the family remembers how Harry caused “a lot of harm”.
Now, the Royal Family has to “tread very carefully” with the Prince.
Harry made headlines yesterday, when he was heard joking about the “challenging” relationship between siblings at a glitzy charity bash.
When he met Declan Bitmead – the 17-year-old winner of the inspirational young person 15-28 years award – Harry asked the youngster about his brother.
The Prince asked: “Does he drive you mad?
When Declan replied “no, we get on fine” Harry replied “you know what – siblings”.
And when told his brother went to the same school, Harry said: “You’re at the same school, that sometimes makes it more challenging.”
Hugo says that the strained relationship between the Prince and his brother, as well as with his father, can’t be repaired until he makes a big admission.
The expert says that, in order to get back in with the Royals, Harry will need to “apologise”.
Hugo said: “It would be in his, and everybody else’s, interests if somehow he could form some sort of personal reconciliation with his father.
“Because, we know even from Prince Harry’s book that his father said: ‘Don’t make my last years miserable.’
“And if something happens to the King and Prince Harry has not reconciled with him, then he’s going to be bearing more sort of guilt and remorse and things.
“And he’s got enough on his plate already with the death of his mother and the things that he feels about all that.
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“So in order for that to happen, he is the one who has to apologise. He is the one who has to give assurances.”
Harry’s current visit – set to last for four days – will be his longest since Queen Elizabeth II’s death in 2022.
The Prince previously lost his battle with the Home Office over the level of security he will be granted during visits to the UK.
That court battle reportedly cost Harry a staggering £1 million.
During the Prince’s current visit, King Charles III jetted back to London from his Scottish break.
The King had been in Balmoral for a month, with his return fuelling speculation that the pair could reunite after not seeing each other for 19 months.
However, Hugo says that there will always be “suspicion” over Harry’s return trips to the UK.
He said: “I suppose the suspicion is that, if he comes over here, he is sort of almost reestablishing himself as a member of the royal family.”
Hugo added: “But in the days when he was right in the middle of it and doing things, he was a very hardworking and successful member of the family.
“You know, putting in his bit for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and all the things that he does.
“And, he was wearing fine uniforms and he looked like a prince.
“Latterly, of course, he’s just a guy in jeans with a backpack on his back.”
Now, Hugo says Harry can be seen “loitering in the background of one of Meghan Markle’s cooking sprees”.
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