Prince Harry and Meghan’s call to King Charles and Kate revealed

Just weeks after a royal race row – triggered by the US-based couple – identified King Charles and Kate, they’ve quietly gotten in touch.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly sent a message to the Princess of Wales.

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have reached out to King Charles and Kate, Princess of Wales in the wake of their health issues.

The US-based couple, who have been estranged from the royal family in recent years, reportedly called the Palace last week to pass on their well-wishes after hearing that both Harry’s father and sister-in-law were undergoing surgery.

“The King and Princess of Wales have received support from Prince Harry and Meghan regarding their health”, a royal insider told the UK’s Mirror.

“The Duke and Duchess contacted both parties in different ways to pass on their concerns and best wishes.”

Harry and Meghan reportedly put in a call to the palace. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

According to multiple reports, Buckingham Palace had privately alerted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to the news before it broke publicly last Thursday.

In the first unexpected royal health announcement, it was revealed that Kate had been taken to hospital in London to undergo a “successful” abdominal surgery and would remain there for up to 14 days before recovering at home until after Easter.

Just 90 minutes later, it was also announced that the King was also preparing to undergo surgery in order to treat an enlarged prostate.

The back-to-back news meant that, with Prince William taking time off to care for his wife, three of the four most senior royals are now effectively out of action.

Kate has undergone abdominal surgery. Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage

While King Charles is receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate. Picture: Chris Jackson/Pool/AFP

Meanwhile, Harry’s decision to contact his family amid their rift marks the second time in a matter of months that he has extended an olive branch.

Relations between he and his wife and the rest of his family had been extremely frosty in the wake of their myriad of warts-and-all interviews about their issues with royal life, culminating in Harry’s explosive memoir, Spare.

But in November last year, the Sussexes reportedly made a “friendly” call to Charles to wish him a “happy birthday”, in which they also showed him videos of their two young children, Prince Archie, 4, and Princess Lilibet, 2.

Guards watch over the entry at the London Clinic, where Kate is currently recovering. Picture: Henry Nicholls/AFP

The Sun reported at the time that while a Sussex source described the interaction as a “turning point”, a palace insider pointed out that there was still a “long way to go” in repairing the damaged relationship.

“There is still a long way to go to mend the rift created over many years — and the deeper issues caused by allegations in the Netflix series and Spare are not healed with a phone call,” the source said.

A further strain on the Sussexes’ fledgling relationship with the royal family came shortly afterwards, when Charles and Kate were publicly named in an alleged race row over Archie’s skin colour in December.

The identities of those at the centre of allegations that there were “concerns and conversations” about “how dark” their then-unborn child would be – first made by Meghan during the couple’s 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview – had remained a mystery up until that point.

However, in an apparent publishing error, Charles and Kate’s names were included in the Dutch edition of high-profile a royal book, Endgame, written by Omid Scobie – a royal journalist considered very sympathetic to the Sussexes.

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