Prince Harry meeting up with King Charles on his surprise trip to the UK was "almost certainly not" on his agenda, a royal expert has claimed.
The Duke of Sussex is on an unexpected visit to London and for the past two days has been at the High Court to attend a hearing in his latest legal row.
His surprise return also comes nearly three months after he laid bare his troubled relationship with his father and brother Prince William in his controversial autobiography Spare.
Harry is not expected to meet up with his father while in the UK - even though the King was informed of his visit - as the monarch is "busy".
Buckingham Palace said the King was not in Windsor or London and would be leaving for a state visit to Germany on Wednesday morning.
And according to biographer and editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine Ingrid Seward, Charles is not an "ordinary father" and Harry is "not as brave as he makes out".
She explained to the Mirror: "Any ordinary father would expect to see their son when he paid a rare visit to the UK from abroad.
"But Charles is not an ordinary father. He is King and as such has appointments every 20 minutes of his day. In between, he has letters to sign, state documents to read and meetings to attend.
"When the state visit to France was cancelled his diary was immediately filled with urgent pending issues. Being King is not a part-time post.
"Neither is being a father, but Charles has little reason to want a confrontation with Harry after his disloyalty to his family in his book Spare. Maybe Harry had no desire to see his father either.
"Charles and Camilla were due to be out of the country when he arrived in the UK. Harry would have never envisaged something as politically sensitive as a state visit being postponed.
"Harry is not quite as brave as he makes out he is. However much noise he might have made about wanting a discussion, being ushered into Clarence House to meet with an irate and disappointed father was almost certainly not on his agenda."
Meanwhile, Ingrid says it is little surprise that no meeting is expected between Harry and estranged brother William - who will not want his precious family time "spoiled".
She added: "Of all the members of the family William comes in for the worst criticism in Spare.
"There is no reason for him to want to see the brother who trashed him. It is the children's half term and a rare opportunity for them all to be together in their Norfolk home.
"They kept Anmer Hall for just such occasions. The children have their ponies and pets there and they have the freedom to have fun on the King's Norfolk estate.
"It will be their last opportunity to have proper family time before the coronation. They don’t need Harry to spoil things yet again."
