Kate's New Mission: REUNITING HARRY & CHARLES

Can the Princess of Wales finally fix the family rift between father and son?

Open to Talks "I don't know how staying silent is ever going to make things better," Harry said in 2023 after expressing his hope that his family would sit down with him to discuss everything that's happened.

Princess Kate admits that learning she had cancer in early 2024 was "scary." When doctors delivered the shocking diagnosis, which she publicly announced in March, the Princess of Wales suddenly found herself "face to face" with her own mortality, she further confessed in September after completing chemotherapy, which led her to form "a new perspective on everything."

That includes a new outlook on the deep rift that's divided Britain's royal family for years. When Prince Harry, 40, and Meghan Markle, 43, stepped down as senior working royals and moved to California in early 2020 amid increasing tensions with his relatives-whom he's accused of leaking negative stories about him and his wife to the U.K. press in exchange for favorable media coverage for themselves - it set in motion a series of heartbreaking decisions that pushed the Duke of Sussex even further from his father, King Charles III, and brother, Prince William, 42.

But with the 76-yearold monarch still undergoing treatment nearly a year after he, too, was diagnosed with cancer, "Kate wants the family to reconcile," a source tells Life & Style.

"With the king's health continuing to decline, there's only so much time for that to happen. Kate is on a mission to bring Harry home."

RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK

A lot has changed in recent months. "Kate doesn't like waiting around for things to happen anymore. She's learned life is too precious.

She fears time is running out," explains the source.