Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have not received an invitation from the royal family to join them at Sandringham in Norfolk for their annual Christmas holiday, according to a report.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to spend Christmas in the United States, where they are living again this year, after an invitation to Sandringham failed to materialize. People magazine reports thisciting a source.
The report comes just as Kate Middleton posted an emotional Christmas message on her Instagram, writing that a “special letter, reflecting on the importance of love, empathy and how much we need each other in the most difficult of times” will be sent to the guests will be sent. invited to her second Together at Christmas Carol Service at Westminster Abbey next month” and the “fifteen Community Carol Services across the country, thanking those who attend for all they do for others.”
The Sussexes have not spent Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family since 2018 – the same year they got married.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have not received an invitation from the royal family to join them at Sandringham in Norfolk for their annual Christmas holiday, according to a report. (Jozua Sammer/Getty Images)
The couple left England in 2020 and eventually settled in California.
They remain one fraught relationship with the senior royals following Harry’s tell-all memoir “Spare,” their equally controversial 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and their Netflix series “Harry & Meghan,” which was highly critical of the royal family as an institution.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton, as well as their children, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, are expected to head to Sandringham before Christmas and stay until New Year’s.
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The Sussexes have not spent Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family since 2018 – the same year they got married. (Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)
The Princess of Wales held her first Together at a carol service last year before she was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
Christmas Day at Church of St. Mary Magdalene the estate last year marked the princess’s last public engagement for months before she revealed her diagnosis.
In September she announced that she had done so has completed her round of preventive chemotherapy.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton walked to church on the Sandringham estate with their children last year. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Charles was also diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer this year and is still undergoing treatment.
The royal family’s stay at Sandringham is a centuries-old tradition, with the late Queen Elizabeth usually retreating to the estate from December to February – when her father, King George VI, died.
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King Charles III speaks earlier this month with Canon Dr. Paul Williams in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
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“It will be just like any other Christmas, aimed at the young family,” Grant Harrold, Charles’ former personal butler, told the New York Post this week about the royal family’s planned holiday this year. “They are very family oriented, as was the late Queen, so that will be their focus.”
