After a trying 2021 year, let’s wish the Queen a relatively pleasant holiday. On the other hand, she will have – for the third consecutive year – to open her packages without Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their two children, Archie and Lilibet (2 years and 5 months). In any case, this is what several sources of Page Six : the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have indeed been invited to the traditional royal Christmas at Sandringham, but the couple have no intention of making the trip from California.
“There are a lot of things that go into the logistics and planning of a Family Christmas, so of course the staff know Harry and Meghan won’t be coming., commented a source, quoted on November 17, 2021. If so, they would have already communicated it to their family. “We could have hoped for a full family reunion since it is the very first Christmas for Elizabeth II since the death of her husband Prince Philip, which occurred last April. In addition, the state of health of the sovereign, aged 95, has not failed to worry across the Channel in recent weeks …
The Sussexes would have chosen to spend the holiday season in the United States to avoid a new media storm around their return to the UK. It must be said that the reunion of the couple with the rest of the royal family is desperately awaited, after long months of tension. Since they left the monarchy with a bang at the start of 2020 and started a new life in California, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have never returned to England together.
The Duke of Sussex has admittedly returned twice, in April for Prince Philip’s funeral and in early July to unveil Diana’s new statue in Kensington, but his wife has not set foot in the country for almost two years. The royal family has therefore not seen little Archie since his departure for Canada in the fall of 2019 and the clan has not yet met little Lilibet. Fortunately, Elizabeth II will be able to count on her ten other great-grandchildren, including George, Charlotte and Louis (8, 6 and 3 years old, the children of William and Kate Middleton) to keep her entertained …