The Duke of Sussex was invited to join his family on the anniversary of the Queen's death. Photo / Getty Images
The Duke of Sussex was invited to join his family on the anniversary of the Queen's death. Photo / Getty Images
Prince Harry allegedly turned down an invite to spend the anniversary of the Queen’s death at Balmoral with his family, it has been revealed.
The King is said to have extended an offer to his son to join him in Balmoral amid high tensions between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family, reports The Sun.
However, Harry - who was already in the UK to attend the annual WellChild Awards - rejected the olive branch and, instead, spent the morning of September 8 alone before jetting off to Germany for the Invictus Games.
The Sun also has revealed that Charles’ peace offering came after the Duke of Sussex put in a formal request to the King’s office for royal accommodation and security during his one-night stay in the UK.
The outlet further claims that the Prince was told by a senior aide that none of the royal family’s homes in London and Windsor were available as a majority of the staff were in Scotland with the King and Queen.
Instead, Harry was offered the opportunity to join the rest of his family in Balmoral in what would have been their first extended period together since Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. The Sun reports that Harry declined the invitation, citing a busy schedule as the reason.
Britain's King Charles III, from bottom left, Camilla, the Queen Consort, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex watch as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is placed into the hearse following the state funeral service in Westminster Abbey in central London Monday Sept. 19, 2022. Photo / AP
In recent years, Prince Harry has been mostly estranged from the rest of his family, following his revelations regarding the monarchy and public criticisms of them in his memoir Spare and Netflix docu-series. However, it is said that his father still keeps contact with him occasionally, despite being deeply hurt by his son’s actions.
Prince William, on the other hand, is reportedly furious with his brother and has no intention of working things out with him.
Both Charles and William have been devastated by the Sussexes’ blows towards their wives, with Harry dubbing his stepmother Camilla as “dangerous” and a “villain”.
Harry and Meghan’s docuseries on Netflix. Photo / Netflix
Simultaneously, in Netflix’s Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex emphasised Kate Middleton’s coldness towards her and divulged that she had made her cry in the lead-up to her wedding.
“King Charles is due to return to London from Balmoral in the middle of September which ties with the end of Harry’s Invictus Games trip to Dusseldorf,” a royal insider told OK! magazine.
“The King has a rescheduled official visit to France on September 20 so has a few days to spare in London to meet with his son. Staff are trying to finetune the details as we speak.”
King Charles with his son, Prince William, at his Duchy home farm. Photo / Getty Images
However, the speculation was quickly put out by the Daily Beast, with an insider close to the Prince of Wales alleging that he felt “utterly betrayed” by the Duke of Sussex.
“Charles won’t be seeing Harry and nor will William. No chance. He feels utterly betrayed by what Harry wrote about him in the book and said about him on Netflix,” the source told the outlet.
