Prince Harry reunited with King Charles in London on September 10, their first meeting in more than a year. According to a palace official, father and son shared a private tea at Clarence House that lasted 55 minutes, longer than their last brief encounter in February 2024, shortly after the King’s cancer diagnosis.
The reunion came as relations between father and son remain complicated, which Harry has spoken about publicly. In a BBC interview in May, he expressed: “I would love a reconciliation with my family.” While Harry has made several trips to the UK for other reasons, this is the first time he has seen his father since last year.
Now that he's a father and completely financially independent from the royal family, it's fascinating to trace how Prince Harry got to this point, particularly as a royal with a notably irresponsible past. While his days as a wild child are over, he's proven that he still has a whole lot of rebel in him—how else do you explain stepping down from royal duties? Plus, he's just 40, so there's still plenty of time for more scandalous moves!
With this in mind, let's take a walk down memory lane and explore the long road from British enfant terrible, to respectable father, to rebel ex-royal.