The Sun is one of several papers leading on Prince Harry’s meeting with King Charles on Wednesday. The paper reports that the pair met at Clarence House and had a “private tea” that lasted less than an hour.”When Harry met his father again” reads the Express, picturing Prince Harry arriving at his meeting with the King yesterday. According to the paper, the meeting is their first in 19 months and has sparked “hopes of Royal reconciliation”. The Daily Star has also pictured Prince Harry en route to Clarence House, pairing it with the headline “When Harry met Charlie”. The paper is quick to point out that Prince William is in Cardiff, and has not been pictured at the “55-minute tea”. “Hello papa” says the Mirror, also leading on potential reconciliation between the two royals.Prince Harry is pictured on the front page of the Telegraph, but the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Lord Mandelson is the main story for the paper. It reports that now-US ambassador advised the late Epstein to fight for an early release from prison, after he was convicted of child sex offences in 2008. Lord Mandelson told the BBC: “I relied on assurances of his innocence that turned out later to be horrendously false.””Starmer refuses to sack Mandelson as US envoy”, says the headline in the Times, reporting that the prime minister is “resisting pressure” despite “further revelations” about the US ambassador’s relationship with Epstein. The paper also reports that officials blocked the release of a secret memo from Mandelson in 2002, in which he allegedly urged then-prime minister Tony Blair to meet with Epstein. The Daily Mail has taken a firmer stance, and says “Mandelson must be fired”. The paper says there is “cross-party fury” after more emails between Lord Mandelson and Epstein were released, and reported that “even Labour MPs demanded Britain’s ambassador to Washington be sacked”. “Mandelson on brink over leaked emails with Epstein” declares the i Paper, quoting an interview between the Sun’s Harry Cole and the ambassador on Wednesday, which saw the Labour grandee admit it was “very embarrassing” to see “the words he wrote 20 years ago published”. News of the shooting of Trump ally Charlie Kirk at a Utah college came in too late for many of the papers, but the Guardian managed to slip a photograph of the conservative activist onto its front page. The 31-year-old was shot dead at a campus event on Wednesday. The main story for the paper is the Russian drones that crossed into Polish airspace on Wednesday morning. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that the nation is “closer to military conflict than at any time since the Second World War”.”Reckless Putin is testing West” says the Metro, also leading on what it calls the “deliberate” drone strike on Poland. The paper says the incident was the first time Russian drones have been downed over Nato territory. The Financial Times says US drugmaker Merck has “scrapped a £1bn London research centre, in a “fresh blow” to Labour’s growth drive. Merck is expected to lay off more that 100 scientific staff, and will move the research to existing sites, which are primarily in the US.
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‘Harry’s tea with the King’ and ‘Mandelson on brink’
