Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, recently admitted that any ordinary father would expect to see their son when he visits from abroad, but Charles is not an ordinary father.
As King, he has a jam-packed schedule with appointments every 20 minutes, 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, and being King is not a part-time job.
Although being a father is not a part-time job either, Charles may not be too interested in confronting Harry after his disloyalty to the family in his book Spare. Perhaps Harry also had no desire to see his father.
When Harry arrived in the UK, Charles and Camilla were supposed to be out of the country, and Harry would never have expected a politically sensitive state visit to be postponed.
Despite making noise about wanting a discussion, Harry may not have been as brave as he seemed, as being ushered into Clarence House to meet an irate and disappointed father was likely not on his agenda.
