King Charles gave Prince Harry tea as they came face to face in London on Wednesday for the first time in 19 months.

The long-awaited reconciliation meeting, which defied expectations, popular opinion, and the wishes of Prince William, happened after Charles jetted to London from Balmoral for his weekly round of cancer treatment. A report in the Daily Telegraph said the meeting lasted 45 minutes.

A friend of the king’s told the Daily Beast that the king would be “delighted” by the encounter and that it suggested that Harry either intended to or already had privately apologized for scathing remarks he made about Camilla Parker Bowles in his memoir and in media interviews, when he called her a “wicked stepmother” and said she was prepared to leave “bodies in the street” in her quest to be

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