William and Charles Hold Private Balmoral Meeting

Prince William traveled to Balmoral Castle in Scotland late this month to spend private time with his father, King Charles, marking another informal father and son meeting away from official royal engagements, British reports said. The visit, which was not entered on public schedules, comes amid a week of high-profile family activity in London and follows a separate meeting earlier in September between the King and his younger son, Prince Harry.

According to accounts of the Balmoral trip, the Prince of Wales arrived in Aberdeenshire after a joint engagement in England with his wife, the Princess of Wales, and spent a few days at the royal Highland estate where the King traditionally spends part of the summer. This year’s Balmoral visits by father and son have become an annual, private opportunity for the monarch and his heir to confer away from public duties, sources said.

The meeting follows a private tea at Clarence House on September 10 between King Charles and Prince Harry, their first face-to-face meeting in about 19 months. Reports that the encounter felt formal and that the Duke of Sussex left describing it as more like an official visit than a family reunion prompted a...