Prince Harry will attend his father’s coronation next month, Buckingham
Palace said on Wednesday, ending speculation over whether the strained
relations between the Duke of Sussex and other members of the royal family
would stain one of the biggest royal events in a generation.
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Harry’s
wife, Meghan, and their two children will not attend, the palace said. The
coronation of King Charles III will be held May 6 at Westminster Abbey in London.
Since
Harry and Meghan withdrew from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the US, the
Duke of Sussex has attended a few royal events, including the funerals of Queen
Elizabeth II in September and Prince Philip in 2021. But his attendance at the
coronation, and that of his wife and children, has been a subject of constant
speculation after interviews, documentaries, and Harry’s memoir, “Spare”,
portrayed a growing rift in the royal family.
News
of Harry’s brief return to the royal fold comes just a month after he and
Meghan were asked to move out of Frogmore Cottage, their five-bedroom house on
the grounds of Windsor Castle. Elizabeth offered the house to the couple at the
time of their wedding in 2018, and it served as their home base when they visited
Britain after they relocated to Montecito, California.
The
growing riftThe
couple, who negotiated their withdrawal from royal duties in 2020, have been at
the center of multiple media frenzies since they left Britain.
“I love my Mother Country, and I love my family, and I always will. I just wish, at the second-darkest moment of my life, they’d both been there for me.”
Harry’s
memoir followed a series of high-profile interviews and a Netflix series, in
which he and Meghan described ongoing harassment from Britain’s news media. But
it was an extraordinary interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, in which Meghan
said that members of the royal family had raised concerns about the skin color
of the couple’s then-unborn baby, that marked a new era of acrimony for the
usually tight-lipped royal family.
In
his memoir, Harry wrote that he and Meghan hoped to keep up some of their royal
duties and retain the security that came with their titles. Instead, Harry
wrote that, after a meeting that the British news media labeled “the
Sandringham Summit”, they learned that they would no longer represent the queen
and that they would lose their security.
“I
love my Mother Country, and I love my family, and I always will,” Harry writes.
“I just wish, at the second-darkest moment of my life, they’d both been there
for me.”
Still,
Harry was said to have remained close with the queen until her death; the
couple, who named their daughter Lilibet after the queen’s childhood nickname,
paid her a surprise visit last April.
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