Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have released their 2024 Christmas card following reports that the Sussexes did not receive an invitation of the Royal Family to join them at Sandringham in Norfolk for their annual Christmas holiday.
On December 16, Harry and Markle released their Christmas card, which featured a grid of six photos. The message on the bottom read: “On behalf of the Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Productions and Archewell Foundation, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Joyful New Year.”
Those six photos showed a rare glimpse of the couple’s children, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3. The family photo shows Harry leaning over to greet his daughter with a hug, while Markle did the same does with Archie.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have released their 2024 Christmas card. (Archewell)
The photo also shows the family’s three dogs.
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According to a source, this Christmas card was for public use only and Harry and Markle’s friends and family received a separate card. This is not shared with the public.
Markle and Harry aren’t the only members of the royal family not to celebrate Christmas with King Charles, as Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson turned down the monarch’s invitation to celebrate Christmas together.
Prince Andrew will not attend Christmas services with the royal family. (Steve Parsons/Getty Images)
The Duke and Duchess of York and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will not attend morning church services or lunch with the royal family at Sandringham House. People reported.
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, will also not attend the royal Christmas services this year. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis)
The news comes as it was revealed that Prince Andrew had recently had contact with an alleged Chinese spy. Sky News reports this. His office released a statement on Friday saying he had severed ties with the Chinese businessman based on “advice” from officials, but that the pair had never discussed anything of a “sensitive nature.”
According to reports, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not travel to Britain this holiday season. (Karwai Tang)
Harry and Meghan have not celebrated Christmas in Britain since 2018 – the same year they got married. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for W+P)
As for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they are expected to spend Christmas in the United States, where they are living again this year. People signed upciting a source.
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The Sussexes have not spent Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family since 2018, the same year they got married.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are expected to continue the tradition and celebrate Christmas at Sandringham. (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.
Kate Middleton looked happy and healthy at the fourth annual Together at Christmas carol service. (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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Charles was also diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer this year and is still undergoing treatment.
King Charles III had his own health problems this year. (Getty Images)
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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“It will be just like any other Christmas, aimed at the young family,” Grant Harrol, Charles’ former personal butler, told the newspaper. New York Post in November of the royal family’s planned holiday this year. “They are very family oriented, as was the late Queen, so that will be their focus.”
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
