‘The presence of Harry and Meghan at any family gathering now would make it feel like more of a funeral than a celebration,’ writes Eden, in the latest edition of his Palace Confidential newsletter.Things were very different in 2018 when, as Eden points out, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle delayed their honeymoon as a mark of respect.
That decision had allowed them attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in honour of the then Prince of Wales’s 70th birthday and the charities and patronages to which he’d dedicated his adult life.‘Their delay was seen as a gesture of thanks by Meghan to her new father-in-law, who walked her up the aisle at St George’s Chapel, in the absence of her own father, Thomas Markle,’ writes Eden.
‘When King Charles turns 75 next Tuesday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will, however, be week, a spokesman for Harry and Meghan made a point of denying a line buried in a Sunday Times story that he had been invited to a party to celebrate his father’s birthday and that he had rejected the invitation.
