Prince Harry and Meghan,Duke and Duchess of Sussex in June 2022. Harry has confirmed he will travel to the UK alone for his father’s coronation.Credit:AP
Meghan has not returned to the UK since the Queen’s funeral in September last year and media reports have quoted her friends as saying the 41-year-old considers her future to be in the US where the Sussexes based themselves in Montecito,California.
Harry will join his closest family members at Westminster Abbey for the first time since the funeral. He is not expected to stand alongside the family on the palace balcony as he is no longer a working royal.
He was understood to have been holding out for an apology that he asked of his family via several television interviews in January,when he insisted he wanted to reconcile with the King and his brother William,the Prince of Wales.
Both the King and William are said to have felt deeply betrayed by the many personal family revelations the duke made in his memoir and in various interviews.
King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla in their first portrait since his ascension.Credit:Hugo Burnand/BP
It has been reported that Harry has had little or no direct communication with his father since grandmother’s funeral,while relations with his brother,William,are said to be at an even lower ebb.
In his book,Harry said:“I love my mother country and I love my family and I always will. I just wish,in the second-darkest moment of my life,they’d both been there for me.”
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The King was reported to have been too busy to see his son earlier this month when he made a surprise visit to the UK to attend a High Court hearing concerning his claim against the publisher of theDaily Mail.
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