It was said that King Charles told Prince Harry not to bring his wife Meghan Markle to Balmoral Castle as he and other senior royals rushed to the bedside of the dying Queen.
Amid the personal family tragedy on Thursday, when the Queen passed away at the age of 96, a small household drama was playing out concerning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
It was a fortuitous coincidence of sorts that Harry and Meghan were in the country when the prince’s grandmother passed away, sparing him an emotional and undoubtedly traumatic transatlantic dash as the Queen’s health failed.
Despite the hostility of the past few years, no one would begrudge him the opportunity to grieve his dear Granny, with whom he’d always enjoyed a warm and fun-loving relationship, but as the royal household was engulfed in concern for the ailing monarch, the Sussexes provoked an unprecedented flurry behind the scenes by announcing that Harry and Meghan would both be travelling to Balmoral.
According to a newspaper outlet, Prince Harry was at Frogmore Cottage when he received a call from his father asking him not to bring Meghan, and that Charles told Harry that it wasn’t right or appropriate for Meghan to be in Balmoral at such an extremely sad time, a source told the newspaper, and it was pointed out to him that Kate wasn’t going and that the numbers should be restricted to extremely close family, and that Charles made it extremely clear that Meghan would not be welcome.
Meanwhile, a newspaper outlet said that Harry wasn’t initially called when senior royals made their way up to Balmoral, like his brother Prince William was, due to constitutional reasons.
A royal insider also said that it was rather difficult to spend too much time with someone you know is about to publish a tell-all book about you, and another added that they believed the general response to Harry and Meghan’s behaviour had been one of disbelief.
News of their plans came via a small group of media the Sussexes consider it appropriate to deal with and it was tweeted out by a journalist at 1.53 pm.
The statement read, from a spokesperson that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be travelling to Scotland. This was, of course, news to the Palace and it didn’t go down well with many behind royal walls who were really unbelieving.
And whilst one understands that Meghan Markle would have wanted to support her husband, it was best on this occasion that she supported her husband from a distance.
We shouldn’t dislike Meghan Markle, but she did marry into a Royal Family that she didn’t truly understand, and that’s why Royals should only marry other Royals because it’s an establishment that dates back a long long time.
I’m not a King Charles III fanatic. I also don’t believe that he will make a strong King, but nevertheless, he is the King now, and I’m sure he will do the best that he can, in the brief time that he will reign, and I’m sure that when Harry and Meghan’s next book comes out it will be dicey and delicious, and it will prick up some ears, and we definitely shouldn’t be making this moment about Harry and Meghan. Harry and Meghan are the least of our concerns and the first and foremost should be the mourning of Her Majesty and sending positive thoughts to the family.
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