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Prince Harry meets with his dad King Charles during U.K. visit for the first time in 19 months
London — Prince Harry made a rare trip back to the United Kingdom this week, and while most of the visit was filled with public events at charities the Duke of Sussex supports, he also met with his father, King Charles III, for the first time since February 2024.
Harry has said previously that he wants to rebuild his relationship with his family, which has been strained since he and his wife Meghan formally stepped down from their roles as working royals and moved to California.
This meeting was at Buckingham Palace, the monarch’s official residence in London. CBS News has been told they met privately, for tea, but that all other details of the encounter were private.
Speaking to reporters at an event later, Prince Harry said only that his father was “doing great” amid his ongoing treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.
While Harry hasn’t been a “working royal” for a couple years, he seemed keen to show on this visit to his home nation that he is still prince charming.
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The four-day visit was a clear effort to show he hasn’t lost any love for the causes he holds dear, including supporting sick children and wounded military veterans.
Absent on this trip were Harry’s wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their children, Archie and Lilibet.
In an interview with CBS News’ partner network BBC News in May, Harry said he couldn’t envision bringing them all back to the U.K. with him since he has lost a legal bid to have his downgraded state security detail restored.
Harry said his battle with the U.K. government to get full state-security restored for himself and his family during visits back to Britain caused a rift between himself and his father.
“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile,” he told the BBC.
That reconciliation may have begun on Wednesday. Harry arrived at Buckingham Palace in the afternoon and was seen leaving less than an hour later.
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The father and son relationship is not the only bond that has been strained by the circumstances of Harry and Meghan’s departure — and the prince’s tell-all book “Spare,” and their interviews, and a documentary, in which they were highly critical of their treatment at the hands of the royal family.
It has been even longer since Harry met with his brother, Prince William, who is next in line to sit on the British throne.
This week, Prince William and Harry appeared at charity events at the same time, only about 10 miles from each other. But those who follow the royal family say they remain far apart.
“William and Harry haven’t seen each other in person since 2022, since the late queen’s funeral. And I believe they haven’t spoken personally for the same period. So, there’s been no contact,” Roya Nikkhah, the royal editor for the Sunday Times newspaper, told CBS News on Tuesday. “There’s no chance that William and Harry are going to meet up anytime soon… There is no desire on either side to do that. You know, the brothers haven’t seen each other for such a long time and relations are as bad as they’ve ever been — non-existent.”
Reba McEntire fought back tears as she remembered stepson Brandon Blackstock on The Voice.
For those unaware, Brandon, a talent manager, succumbed to melanoma at the age of 48 on August 7, 2025. He was the son of Narvel Blackstock, the ex-husband of Reba.
Brandon left behind his four children, Savannah and Seth, whom he welcomed with his ex-wife Melissa Ashworth and River and Remy with Kelly Clarkson before getting divorced in 2022.
On Monday, October 27 episode of the NBC singing competition show The Voice season 28, the 70-year-old American singer and actress became emotional when a contestant from her team, Aubrey Nicole, beautifully sang I’m Gonna Love You Through It, a song by Martina McBride.
Notably, the song chronicles the story of a couple who faces life after a cancer diagnosis and Aubrey dedicated the song to her father, who was previously diagnosed with the disease but is now in remission.
Commenting on her performance, coach Snoop Dogg quipped he was not aware of the song but his eyes teared up, to which Reba said, “I do know this song. Martina’s — I’ll need it, thank you, Snoop,” as Snoop gave her a tissue to wipe her eyes.
“Martina’s a good friend of mine. I lost my oldest son because he did not win with cancer. That was a real reminder that life goes on, and we sing songs about it so we can remember the ones around us that we love so much, that we lean on at times like this. You did a great job,” the Happy’s Place star added, referring to Brandon.
Fans believe that Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers in Stranger Things, has a crush on his on-screen friend Mike Wheeler, portrayed by Finn Wolfhard.
Now, ahead of the final season, viewers have been asking the actor whether the possible on-screen romance will happen. But the 21-year-old says he is playing coy about it.
In a post on TikTok, he says, “You guys love saying this,” and adds, “And I never listen.”
He adds, “It’s probably the most commented comment in all my late-night videos. And, I always ignore it.”
Despite not revealing anything, Noah has been teasing fans about the possibility of ‘Byler,’ which is ‘By’ from Byers and ‘ler’ from Wheeler.
“This song will be in season 5…I wonder why,” he shared in a previous post on social media, referring to Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now.
Stranger Things season five will be out on Netflix in three parts. Volume 1 will drop on November 26, Volume 2 on Christmas, and the finale will air on Christmas.
- Minister Khalid urges PIF to make way for the private sector.
- PIF chairman said last year fund would focus on domestic projects.
- Project sits at heart of Vision 2030 with $900 billion in assets.
Saudi Arabia’s investment minister on Tuesday urged the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) to ease its spending on domestic projects and make way for more investments from the private sector, as the fund prepares to draft a new strategic plan.
“It is time for us to maybe scale back on this government or PIF spend to prove and to seed some of these value chains and clusters and let the private sector start investing,” Khalid al-Falih said on Tuesday as financial titans gathered in Riyadh for the country’s flagship investment conference.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 economic plan has led to hundreds of billions in spending on projects that are designed to transform the kingdom’s economy away from its dependence on hydrocarbons.
At last year’s edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, PIF chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan said the fund would tap more of its resources to fund plans domestically to wean the economy off oil and said the fund planned to cut its overseas investments.
But many of the plan’s flagship projects have been delayed amid low oil prices and a budget deficit that has forced Saudi Arabia to prioritise and downsize.
Saudi Arabia’s PIF, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds with more than $900 billion in assets, sits at the heart of Vision 2030. The fund’s initial strategy for 2021-2025 ends this year, and it is due to announce an updated strategy.
Foreign investment into the country has grown 24% in 2024 to $31.7 billion, Rumayyan said earlier on Tuesday as he opened the event, where attendees include Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Blackrock’s Larry Fink, JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, and Citi’s Jane Fraser.
Falih later added that 90% of that foreign direct investment was into Saudi Arabia’s non-oil sector, without mentioning specifics.
“We just did a transaction here in the kingdom, and we had five times more demand than we could provide. It was for a pipeline in Jafurah, and the amount of money that was interested in investing here in the kingdom was at a record level,” Fink said on a panel.
“To me, this is just an indication of the transformation here in the kingdom, but more importantly, in the whole region, and I do believe we’re seeing more and more, as the GCC, becoming one of the major destinations for capital.”
That Jafurah deal, which raised $11 billion for Saudi state oil giant Aramco upfront in exchange for payments over 20 years to the investors, is in the exact sector the kingdom is trying to reduce its reliance on.
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