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EXCLUSIVE: Kate Middleton and Prince Harry are rebuilding their relationship despite the ongoing family drama

''When it was just him and Kate chatting away, it felt like old times.''
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No matter how tense things became between princes William and Harry, one thing remained true: the Duchess of Cambridge only ever wanted the royal brothers to find peace.

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After all, no one was more welcoming toward Kate when she joined the Mountbatten-Windsor fold as an outsider than her surrogate โ€œlittle brotherโ€ Harry.

So when Harry and his family jetted in to London late last week, Kate, 40, knew this was her big chance to help heal the brothersโ€™ rift โ€“ and get her old partner in crime back.

Harry considered Kate the sister he never had.

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โ€œKate misses Harry terribly,โ€ says a source. โ€œHe was always such fun when he was living with them at Kensington Palace.

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โ€œHe was a regular at their dinner table for pizza nights and Sunday lunch and was forever leaving her in stitches of laughter. She finds thatโ€™s what sheโ€™s missed the most ever since the boys fell out.โ€

Harry, 37, meanwhile, has long described Kate as โ€œthe sister I never hadโ€.

โ€œKate misses Harry terribly.โ€

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Itโ€™s believed that Kate has tried valiantly to keep their friendship alive even after the family relations became fractured and Harry moved with his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 40, and son Archie, now three, to the US.

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โ€œKate wrote, sent gifts for Archie and again for little Lilibet when she was born,โ€ says a source. โ€œHarry always appreciated that. He also appreciated Kate keeping him company at Prince Philipโ€™s funeral last year when the rest of the family wouldnโ€™t go near him. When it was just him and Kate chatting away, it felt like old times.โ€

Kate will meet Lilibet while Harry and his family are in the UK for the Queenโ€™s Jubilee.

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Harry, Meghan, Archie and Lilibet arrived in the UK on a private jet on Wednesday afternoon local time, ahead of a festive weekend celebrating the Queenโ€™s Platinum Jubilee.

The California-based family, who had previously complained they couldnโ€™t return to the UK due to security concerns, were at the time of going to press expected to attend the Trooping the Colour parade, a service at St Paulโ€™s Cathedral and a concert in Harryโ€™s grandmotherโ€™s honour.

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Privately, it was expected that the Sussexes would introduce Lilibet, who turned one on Saturday, to her British relatives โ€“ including the Queen and Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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โ€œThereโ€™s no way Kate would miss meeting Harryโ€™s baby girl,โ€ says a source. โ€œIโ€™m sure there were a few nerves ahead of Kate catching up with the Sussexes, especially since Meghanโ€™s comments in the press about the royals left Kate fairly churned up, but thereโ€™s nothing she loves more than a baby, so she would have set everything aside for Lili and Harry.

โ€œKate and Harry were close for more than 10 years โ€“ that sort of friendship doesnโ€™t just vaporise and Iโ€™m sure as soon as they saw each other, just like at Prince Philipโ€™s funeral, all of the tension wouldโ€™ve fallen away.โ€

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