Harry was kept away from Charles by palace officials. Harry came to visit his father expecting to meet him at Sandringham.
Instead he was asked to come to Clarence House, Charles and Camilla's home in the capital and to limit his stay to 30 minutes. The relationship between father and son was considered to be broken since Prince Harry had vented in his memoirs “Spare” and had also left his family in hot water, but there had been initial rapprochements on the Regent's birthday.