Prince Harry + Duchess Meghan
After bitter disappointments: will the Queen invite you to Christmas?
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan
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Christmas will be again in around three months. A celebration of family and love. This also applies to the British royals. But will Queen Elizabeth be able to jump over her shadow this year and invite her estranged grandson Prince Harry along with his wife and children under the Christmas tree at home? The palace still seems undecided.
Whether Prince Harry, 36, and Duchess Meghan, 40, together with their children Archie, 2, and Lilibeth will unwrap their gifts on December 25, 2021 in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, 95, is still in the stars. Too many times the couple have disappointed their British relatives. On the one hand, because it has turned down the invitation to Christmas in the past two years. On the other hand, quite obviously, because the fronts between the Sussexes and the vast majority of the rest of the royal family have hardened.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan: Palace employees are surprised at their plans
The couple who emigrated to the USA are apparently currently planning an early visit to the British monarch. After all, the queen should finally get to know the great-granddaughter named after her personally. A wish of the 95-year-olds that her grandson can hardly refuse. “The Queen still loves Harry very much and would like to see Lilibet and her brother Archie,” a source said to “The Sun”. But with some employees: inside the palace, the Sussexes’ plan evidently met with suspicion. “The courtiers are surprised by this decision, especially Meghan, after all that has happened.”
So are the Sussexes hoping for a conciliatory reunion with the whole family for Christmas? Possible. But it has not yet been leaked when the alleged visit of the small family in England will take place. The fact is that the holidays in particular have become a sore point in the couple’s relationship with their relatives.
The Sussexes have disappointed Queen Elizabeth several times
As early as 2019, the newlyweds preferred to spend Christmas away from their families in Canada. Last year, the corona pandemic thwarted a festive visit by the Americans, Harry and Meghan, to Windsor Castle.
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Her alleged intentions, of all things, after her explosive revelations about the royals, to celebrate the party with the harshly criticized clan, are said to have shocked senior employees of the palace. They apparently haven’t forgiven the Sussexes for their sensational interview with Oprah Winfrey, 67, and the tricky chats that followed.
Reconciliation under the Christmas tree?
In the case of Queen Elizabeth, however, things should look different. According to insider reports, she is said to have been deeply “angry” about the attacks on her grandson and his wife, but peace talks seem to be taking place repeatedly behind the scenes. Harry only returned to Great Britain in April 2021 to bid farewell to his late grandfather Prince Philip, † 99. As part of the sad occasion, the 36-year-old is said to have met his grandmother twice for a private conversation during his stay of several days, as the author of the Sussexes biography “Finding Freedom”, Omid Scobie, claims.
Harry used another visit on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of Princess Diana, † 36, in the following July to smooth things over with his father Prince Charles, 72, and his brother Prince William, 39.
Could Christmas now bring lasting peace? For the queen it would probably be her lovely present. “It’s hard for her to turn down her beloved grandson, no matter how badly he behaved,” suspects Royal expert Angela Levin, but remains skeptical as to whether an invitation from the Sussexes to the party is the Queen’s best idea: “You I’m sure you have another agenda up your sleeve and whatever she decides, she could lose. “
Source used: thesun.co.uk