Prince Harry has laid flowers on the grave of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal Family marks three years since her death.
The Duke of Sussex is in the UK to attend the annual WellChild Awards in London and visit a community recording studio in Nottingham tomorrow.
Pictures showed a car carrying Harry arriving this morning at Windsor Castle. The late Queen’s grave is located in St George’s Chapel at the royal residence.
It is understood her grandson left a wreath and flowers and privately paid respects to her.
At the time, the Duke’s brother Prince William was attending an engagement with his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, just seven miles away.
However, the estranged brothers did not cross paths today and it is unclear whether they will meet while Harry is in the UK for his longest visit since shortly after the Queen’s death in 2022.
It is also unknown if Harry will see his father King Charles, who is staying at his Scottish residence in Birkhall near Balmoral, for the first time in 19 months.
Last week, it was reported that the Duke was hoping to lay the groundwork for a longer-term return to his home country with his wife Meghan and children Archie, six, and Lilibet, four.
He is believed to have had a particularly close relationship with his late grandmother.
A new book by former royal butler Paul Burrell claims Harry gave Queen Elizabeth a secret mobile phone after the ‘Megxit’ schism split the Royal Family apart at the beginning of 2020.
The device is said to have been sent over to the monarch surreptitiously without the knowledge of William or Charles, to give the Duke a direct line to ‘Granny’.
Princess Lilibet, Harry and Meghan’s daughter, was named in honour of a family nickname for the late Queen.
Disputing reports the Duke had not consulted his grandmother beforehand, a spokesperson said she was ‘the first family member he called’ and the couple ‘would not have used the name’ if she had not been supportive.
Just weeks before she died at Balmoral, Elizabeth met baby Lilibet.
In his book Spare, Harry wrote about the Queen’s ‘bemused’ reaction to meeting his son and daughter, saying she described them as ‘sweetest children’.