King Charles III moves in… and takes the opportunity to clean up the royal family! While the entire British monarchy website was reset after he took the throne, some observers may have noticed that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle no longer appear in their usual place, after Prince William and Kate Middleton … but down below, among the queen’s distant cousinsthe Kents and the Gloucesters!
An unsurprising decision: the new sovereign had never hidden the fact that he wanted a “tightened” monarchy around its core members. His youngest son having expressed his desire to leave “senior” members of the royal family and no longer making special commitments, it was therefore logical for him to relegate him to the bottom, behind his brother, but also his uncle and aunt. Anna and Edward. His cousins as a whole (Beatrice and Eugenie from York, Zara and Peter Phillips and Louise and James from Wessex) are however not concerned, since they are not part of the senior members.
Only one exception at his side on the site, his uncle, Prince Andrew, also rejected from the royal clan. But for a completely different reason: accused of having participated in the Epstein affair and of having sexually abused a minor, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II has been ostracized from the family and no longer has any public commitmentsunlike his brothers and sister.
Present for all the ceremonies in tribute to his mother, alongside all the members of the siblings, he had however been prevented from wearing his military uniform, from whom the military functions were all withdrawn. Same treatment for Prince Harry, who had to abandon his finery when leaving the royal family.
Quite angry with his clan since his departure in 2020, he seemed to have found fragile relations with his family after the various ceremonies of the burial of his grandmother, the sovereign who remained on the throne for 70 years. Will this change of order on the website already ruin everything? It’s hard to know, as the whole family has remained silent since the death that marked them so much. But the revelations should be linked in the coming weeks…