According to a royal expert, King Charles and Prince William might have a lot of trouble with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s rumored summer visit to the UK.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s trip to the UK this summer could see King Charles reunited with his youngest grandchildren for the first time in four years, while also creating a major “dilemma” for the royal family. The couple are rumoured to be visiting Harry’s homeland in July to kick off the countdown to the Invictus Games in 2027, and royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams predicts that by bringing Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, they could pave the way for better royal relations.
A reunion with the grandchildren would be an obvious way to end Charles’ hostility toward the Sussexes, according to Richard. The King may not be involved in anything related to the Games this summer, but I do believe there is a chance he will see Harry and his grandchildren, and that likely includes Meghan.
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A reunion with Archie and Lilibet was long overdue when they last traveled to London for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022. Meghan hasn’t visited the UK since attending Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in September that year, but Richard thinks she’ll be a part of Harry’s passion project.
He says, “It would be unthinkable for Meghan not to appear at Invictus because it would look like she was hiding away, and she will stand by Harry no matter what.” Harry founded the Invictus Games, which honours wounded military personnel and veterans, in 2014, and they have since become his main focus on the world stage. In summer 2024, the organisation revealed that Birmingham would host the 2027 Games – its first time back on UK soil in 13 years.
There is now increasing speculation about whether the Sussexes might reunite with the King – and the Prince and Princess of Wales – this summer, and also whether the King will publicly support next year’s event in his role as Head of the Armed Forces. While he and Harry met briefly last September at Clarence House, William and his brother have reportedly not spoken to one another in more than three years.
Just a few weeks before the Sussexes were set to resign as working royals, Richard recalls them “looking daggers at each other” during the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in 2020. And while William and Kate gathered with Harry and Meghan to view the Queen Elizabeth’s floral arrangements in Windsor following her funeral, royal observers observed a palpable gloom between the two couples.
Because Westminster Abbey was a catastrophic mess, a PR disaster, and the royal family will make sure nothing like that ever happens again, he claims, “The Sussexes have created endless cracks, but we will never see a public showdown.” However, if Harry and Meghan met Catherine and William while they were in the UK, it would be very tense behind closed doors.
Richard asserts that Charles and William may have a “divergence” regarding Harry’s future and how to support his Invictus cause, but that Harry will be “banking on the Windsors putting duty before their personal feelings.”
The Sussexes have created themselves a major dilemma, according to Richard, and the Royals face both. It’s up to Harry to decide what happens with the Invictus Games because he founded them, though perhaps not officially.
“The end of the event clashes with Queen Camilla ’s 80th birthday, but that isn’t a reason for Charles not to open the Games if he intends to, and there is a very good case for him doing so because he is Head of the Armed Forces and it’s a major military charity event.
“At the moment though, it’s completely unclear how the royal family are going to respond, given the Sussexes put three nuclear bombs under Buckingham Palace with Spare, the Oprah Winfrey interview and their Netflix series.”
William was alleged to be angry with his brother because he wrote about Kate following Harry’s release of his memoir Spare in 2023. Harry included details of private text messages between the future sisters-in-law and said he “found Meg on the floor, sobbing” in the “bridesmaid dress drama” where Meghan and Kate allegedly allegedly got into a fight over Princess Charlotte’s gown shortly before his wedding. Kate later apologized, Meghan claimed.
Who would or could be the King’s representative should he choose to open the Games with? It’s very unlikely, in Richard’s opinion, to be the Prince of Wales.
“The Sussexes are probably hoping to change public opinion,” he says, but he doesn’t believe William’s opinion of them and what they have done can change. The King may have a different perspective on Harry than William, but he won’t ever place him in a awkward situation in front of the public.
Source: Mirror
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