Last year they turned down an invitation from Queen Elizabeth No justified by the then epidemiological situation in the United Kingdom, the fight against the omicron variant, due to which Buckingham Palace canceled the traditional celebrations of Christmas in Sandringham. This year history repeats itself (but without excuses): Harry and Meghan absent from England for the fourth year in a rowwhat seems certain according to the British tabloids will certainly be more evident when the entire royal family is reunited in Norfolk.
As indicated on the website BBC, Charles III will spend his first Christmas as king at Sandringham., returning to the traditional gathering of the royal family in Norfolk. Buckingham Palace has not confirmed who will be attending, but the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, will certainly not be absent. Festivities that include a mass at the local church of St. Mary Magdalene with greetings from the locals, followed by a family dinner with a turkey as the main course. We are looking forward to the first Christmas speech of the king, which will be broadcast at 15:00 on December 25th.during which always reveals BBCthe ruler must “consider the loss of his mother and his legacy as the longest-reigning monarch the country has ever known.”
And the Dukes of Sussex? “Harry and Megan, despite the invitation of Carlo, will not come to Sandringham for Christmas”He wrote Mirror considering among the reasons for the refusal the increasingly tense relationship between father and son. It is on the occasion of the holidays that a documentary series about the dukes is planned to be released on Netflix, in which, according to rumors, there will be new jabs against the Windsors, not to mentionentering Harry’s memoir bookstores which is only with the title, Fire, implies revelations about the life of a “second” in the shadow of his brother William. The headline that rocked the Palazzo and, according to an insider who spoke to Mirror“may mean the end of any attempt at reconciliation.”
Even the Sussexes would have poisoned their teeth: first, depriving Harry of the right to wear his own uniform for 10 days of mourning for the death of the queen, then an invitation, later withdrawn, to a banquet at Buckingham Palace in the presence of heads of state and crowned heads, and finally the idea to deprive little Archie and Lilibet of the status of Royal Highnesses. “The queen’s death means there won’t be as much pressure to bring the whole family together, which is a good thing because it looks like Harry and Meghan won’t be there,” he said. Sun royal biographer Angela Levine: “I’m sure Catherine and William will be there with the king and queen. […] Harry and Meghan won’t be coming, which I think will be a huge relief for the rest of the family who want to have a peaceful first Christmas without Elizabeth.” be at an all-time low, but there is still a month for a possible turnaround.
Source: Elle