Ammon News - Prince Harry returns to Britain this week amid speculation that he might visit his father, King Charles, for the first time in about 20 months in tentative steps towards a family reconciliation.

On Monday, which also happens to be the third anniversary of the death of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, Harry will attend the WellChild Awards, an annual charity event for seriously ill children for which he is a longtime supporter and one of the rare events which bring him back to Britain.

The visit has left media and royal commentators postulating that it will provide an opportunity for the 76-year-old monarch and his son to see each other and start healing their high-profile rift.

"There is talk, growing talk, that he might well meet up with his father," said Simon Perry, who covers the royal family in London for People magazine.

"I think with any time Prince Harry comes close or relatively close to his father, and they can be in the same country, there's going to be talk that they might well get together."

Buckingham Palace says it never discusses private family matters, while Harry's spokesperson likewise declined to comment.

The prince, 40, who last saw his father in February last year shortly after Buckingham Palace revealed the king was undergoing treatment for cancer, has been estranged not just from Charles but the rest of the Windsors since he and his wife Meghan left royal duties in 2020 and moved to California.

Since then, in interviews, TV documentaries and his autobiography "Spare", the couple have been critical of the royal household with Harry delivering particularly barbed comments about his father and elder brother, heir Prince William.

Harry is not expected to see William, with newspapers saying the Prince of Wales was not yet ready to bury the hatchet with his brother.

Reuters