Fordwich noted that, according to palace insiders, the king “has expressed being ‘cautious and wary’ regarding fearing further unsavory leaks, [especially] private royal family gatherings being publicized yet again.”

Prince Harry told the BBC in May his father wouldn’t speak to him. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

“Also, overall doubt still prevails in Prince William’s camp,” Fordwich claimed. “He considers any reconciliation at all as a ‘grave mistake.’ His senior royal courtiers are understood to be just as wary and immensely protective of the future monarch. They only see [a reconciliation] as creating more bombshells, as well as instability.”

According to the outlet, Harry’s proposal will allow transparency, avoiding conflicts between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s public outings and the British royal family’s engagements. This will also attempt to quash rumors the Sussexes are trying to overshadow the royal family.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 at Merkur Spiel-Arena Sept. 16, 2023, in Düsseldorf, Germany.  (Joshua Sammer/Getty Images)

It’s noted that Harry’s recent visit to Angola honoring his late mother, Princess Diana, eclipsed stories about Queen Camilla’s 78th birthday.

Britain’s King Charles III attends a reception at Scrabster Harbour in Thurso, northern Scotland, July 28, 2025. (Aaron Chown/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The outlet also revealed that Harry sharing his diary would potentially spark conversations about when father and son can meet in person again. Harry and Charles were last together for a brief meeting in February 2024 after Buckingham Palace announced the 76-year-old’s cancer diagnosis.

Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital he’s optimistic about Harry’s latest move.

King Charles III was diagnosed with cancer in 2024. (Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images)

“This represents a gesture of goodwill,” he said. “The Sussexes should always respect the royal calendar, where natural care is taken to avoid clashes whenever possible. … This is a practical move that will be appreciated. It appears the Sussexes are getting some good advice.”

Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner agreed.

“This is a very significant departure and development for Harry as he attempts to find a peaceful way forward,” he told Fox News Digital. “In my opinion, this should be construed as a way forward and one which the royal family should accept and move forward to a peaceful conclusion for the future.”

Meghan Markle, an American actress, became a member of the British royal family in 2018 when she married Britain’s Prince Harry. (Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped back as senior royals in 2020, citing unbearable intrusions of the British media and a lack of support from the palace. They moved to California that same year.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to California in 2020. (Chris Jackson/Pool/Getty Images)

After their royal exit, the couple aired their grievances in interviews and documentaries. Harry’s 2023 memoir, “Spare,” which detailed embarrassing revelations about the House of Windsor, only worsened tensions with his family.

In televised interviews to promote the book, Harry accused his stepmother, Queen Camilla, of leaking private conversations to the media in an attempt to gain favorable tabloid coverage. He singled out Camilla’s efforts to rehabilitate her image with the public after her longtime affair with his father.

Queen Camilla attends King George Day at Ascot Racecourse July 26, 2025, in Ascot, England. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Sources close to Harry previously told People magazine the king wouldn’t respond to his letters or phone calls. Several royal experts told Fox News Digital William and Harry aren’t on speaking terms.

Sources close to Prince Harry previously told People magazine King Charles III wouldn’t respond to his son’s calls and letters. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

In May, Harry told the BBC he wanted to reconcile with his family, but his father wouldn’t speak to him.

“I would love reconciliation with my family,” he said. “There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore. I don’t know how much longer my father has.”

Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare” was published in January 2023. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

The Daily Mail reported that Harry’s aides had a private meeting July 9 with the king’s communications secretary in London.

Aides for the Prince and Princess of Wales (pictured here) weren’t at the so-called peace summit in London. (Thomas Schreyer/VCG via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital learned that Meredith Maines, the Duke of Sussex’s chief of staff and communications director, had traveled across the pond to meet with the U.K.-based communications team, media, stakeholders and senior figures connected to the prince’s patronages. The visit was entirely routine and part of ongoing planning and engagement.

Representatives for Buckingham Palace and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment at the time.

Still, an insider told People magazine “it was a good first step.”

Royal experts told Fox News Digital that Prince Harry and Prince William (pictured) are not on speaking terms. (Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images)

“It is always better to be talking,” the source said. “It’s a positive step. There’s optimism that it can be taken forever.”

William and wife Kate Middleton were reportedly unaware of the meeting. People magazine noted that the strain between the brothers continues.

“It’s no coincidence that William and Catherine did not have a representative [at the meeting],” a friend told the Daily Mail.

Britain’s Prince Harry walks outside Westminster Abbey after King Charles’ coronation ceremony in London May 6, 2023.  (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)

“They were not asked to send anyone and will be treating the talks with extreme caution. The fact that it ended up in the newspapers tells you all you need to know.”

Fordwich said it would take a lot more work for Harry to win back his family’s trust again.

Several senior royals reportedly don’t trust the Sussexes. (Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

“If there is to be any proper reconciliation, the royal family has absolutely no need to move at anything other than a glacial pace,” she explained. “As for the calendar gesture, it’s not important to the royal family. They share their calendars with the British government and other foreign governments. … It’s up to Harry to plan properly around the royals, not the other way around.”

Prince Harry told the BBC in May he’s ready to reconcile with his family. “There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” he said. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

“This is … a desperate move on Harry’s part,” Fordwich claimed. “This supposed willingness to now coordinate schedules doesn’t equate to true contrition nor a genuine commitment to royal values.

“The only way for Harry to ever have any chance of repairing this ghastly rift is by his actions,” Fordwich insisted. “Harry would have to show discretion for many years to demonstrate any respect at all for protocol, privacy, as well as the family institution.”

Prince Harry still calls California home. (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex live in the wealthy, coastal city of Montecito with their son, Prince Archie, and daughter, Princess Lilibet.

Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

King Charles felt ‘unbearable emptiness’ after Princess Diana’s death

The Princess of Wales, 36, was killed on Aug 31, 1997 in Paris

King Charles was “shattered” when he learned that his ex-wife, Princess Diana, had died in a car accident.

The glamorous Princess of Wales passed away on Aug. 31, 1997. At the time, the 36-year-old was being chased by paparazzi in Paris. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur, Henri Paul, also perished in the crash.

“When he was first told over the phone that Diana had died, Charles, according to an eyewitness, “howled like a wounded animal,’’ Christopher Andersen, author of “The Day Diana Died,” told Fox News Digital.

“Later, after he rushed from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to Paris to bring her back to England, Charles nearly passed out when he first viewed her body,” he shared. “A nurse who was standing in the room told me he reeled back and looked as if he had been ‘struck by an unseen force.’ Considering how epic their marital battles had been, people were surprised at Charles’ reaction. He was devastated by Diana’s death, perhaps to a degree that surprised even him.”

“Charles was shattered,” Andersen added.

Andersen’s statements came shortly after a letter written by the former Prince Charles to his friend was sold at auction for $2,000. In it, Charles detailed the “unbearable emptiness” he felt four months after Diana’s death, the U.K.’s DailyMail reported.

“When he was first told over the phone that Diana had died, Charles, according to an eyewitness, ‘howled like a wounded animal.'”

— Christopher Andersen, author of “The Day Diana Died.”

In a letter that recently sold at auction, King Charles wrote about the “unbearable emptiness” he felt four months after Princess Diana’s death. (Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)

Andersen noted that in Diana’s final months, the exes finally put aside their differences for the sake of their sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.

“In the months before Diana’s death, she and Charles decided to put their bitterness behind them and become, in her words, ‘very best friends,’” Andersen explained. “A close confidant of Diana’s told me that ‘her love for Charles never really died.’ Diana even grudgingly admitted that the love and devotion Charles and [his mistress] Camilla had was something to be admired.”

During the final months of Princess Diana’s life, she developed a warm friendship with her ex-husband for the sake of their two sons. (Getty Images)

“Charles and Diana wrote, surprisingly, affectionate notes to each other,” said Andersen. “On the eve of Diana’s death, Charles dashed one off to her that began ‘My dearest Diana’ and ended with ‘Lots of love, Charles.’”

She never received it.

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997. She was 36. Her companion Dodi Fayed and chauffeur Henri Paul also died. (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

Behind palace doors, Charles was “swept up in a whirlwind of emotion” after learning what happened to Diana.

“The mother of his two young sons had been killed in a horrific car crash,” said Andersen. “She also happened to be the most idolized woman in the world. Charles had to battle his mother, the queen, and the entire establishment of the monarchy to ensure that Diana was given the kind of funeral she deserved.”

Diana received a ceremonial funeral that was attended by 2,000 people. It was watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

From left to right, Prince William, Prince Harry and the former Prince Charles stand outside Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Diana, the Princess of Wales, on Sept. 6, 1997. (Anwar Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

As Charles grieved, Diana’s rival Camilla Parker Bowles became “the target of death threats.”

“She had to go into hiding until things calmed down,” said Andersen. “[And] as loving a father as Charles – and even though he was heartbroken over Diana’s tragic death – he took the time-honored stiff upper lip approach. Diana’s boys were never given grief counseling of any kind. William and Harry were famously forced to walk behind their mother’s coffin through the streets of London teeming with a million weeping spectators – what their uncle Earl Spencer later described as ‘a tunnel of grief.’”

“Both William and Harry have never fully come to terms with their mother’s death,” Andersen shared. “And in a sense, they have yet to emerge from that tunnel of grief.”

Christopher Andersen said Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles’ mistress, went into hiding after receiving death threats following Princess Diana’s passing. (Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

After Diana was laid to rest, Charles would still be haunted by the memories – and legacy -of his ex-wife.

“It seemed to Charles that now he would never be able to marry his longtime mistress,” said Andersen. “At every turn, it seemed that Charles was thwarted by the memory of Diana. After Diana’s death, it took eight years for Charles to convince Queen Elizabeth II to allow him to marry Camilla – and then only after he promised that Camilla would never be known as queen. In the minds of millions, this was the title that rightfully would have gone to Diana had Camilla not wrecked Diana’s marriage to Charles.”

“Of course, Charles broke that promise… and crowned Camilla queen,” said Andersen.

King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned on May 6, 2023, in London. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Charles ascended to the throne upon the death of his mother. England’s longest-reigning monarch died in 2022 at age 96. Charles and Camilla married in 2005 and were crowned in May 2023.

“Charles may have confessed to feelings of ‘unbearable emptiness’ four months after Diana’s death, but it wasn’t that long before he began to resent the persistent shadow she cast over everything he did,” Andersen claimed. “After a quarter-century, Charles and Camilla still must endure comparison with the incomparable Princess Diana.”

Today, the king is battling an undisclosed form of cancer. Andersen claimed that his illness had put the 75-year-old “in a reflective mood.”

King Charles is battling an undisclosed form of cancer. (Jonathan Brady – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

“I’m sure his memories of Diana – both the positive and the negative – are always there, lurking in the background,” said Andersen. “She was a larger-than-life figure who grew even larger in death. King Charles spent years shadowboxing with the ghost of Diana.”

Andersen previously told Fox News Digital it is likely that Charles has had regrets about his marriage to Diana over the years.

“To understand just how heartbreaking Diana’s marriage to Charles was, you have to go back to the beginning,” Andersen explained. “Just as Kate Middleton and millions of other girls put pinups of William on their bedroom walls and dreamed of marrying the handsome prince, Diana and her generation fantasized about marrying [the former] Prince Charles. Diana was only 19 when she got engaged to Charles, and even then it was pretty clear that she was in love with him, but that he was still in love with Camilla.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer pose for photographers at Buckingham Palace after the announcement of their engagement. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

“During the TV interview right after the engagement, Charles uttered his famous ‘whatever in love means’ when asked if he loved Diana. Diana, on the other hand, didn’t hesitate to say she loved him. There may have been moments when Charles wrote tender words to his Diana, but their marriage was pretty much a nightmare for both from day one.”

“There was one brief time during Diana’s second pregnancy when they became truly close,” Andersen continued. “Diana would say it was the closest they had ever been or ever would be – but that all blew up as soon as Harry was born. Charles, who had hoped for a girl, blurted out ‘Oh, God, it’s a boy. And he even has red hair.’ Diana said ‘at that moment something inside me closed off.’

Prince Charles and Princess Diana married in 1981. Their divorce was finalized in 1996. (Getty Images)

“Charles undoubtedly regrets that he ever allowed himself to be bullied by his father Prince Philip into marrying Diana – although that would, of course, have meant that William and Harry never would have existed. The sad truth is, Camilla was the love of Charles’ life all along, and Diana knew it.”