Last minute slam of the door: Buckingham says Prince Harry will not stay at the palace

Prince Harry will arrive in Great Britain this Monday without his family, who are spending the summer at their seaside home in Portugal. The RAVEC, which analyzes together with the Palace the police custody for the prince and the VIPs who arrive in the kingdom, He refused to protect them. He does not consider them in danger, even though he is the son of the king, there are threats on the networks and he is an Afghanistan veteran of the British Army.

Harry was furious because, in a direct conversation with his father, the king, they had agreed that the Sussexes would live in a royal residence, where security would be guaranteedto travel to London and Birmingham for ceremonies a year before the opening of Invictus, Harry’s charity for the wounded and crippled of war.

Until Saturday, that was the program. They were planning to visit Princess Diana’s grave with her two sons at Althorp, which is now owned by Earl Spencer.

The reason is simple. This Tuesday the sentence of the trial that Prince Harry, together with Elton John and her husband, Lady Lawrence and Liz Hurley, presented, will be known. against the Daily Mail and his publisher for invasion of privacy. The king’s private secretaries do not want the monarch to be affected by this sentence, with Harry in a royal residencenor to intervene in the RAVEC decision in favor of Harry.

As announced by the Palace this Monday, Prince Harry will not stay at Buckingham Palace during his visit to the United Kingdomsince the accommodation “is no longer available.” The courtiers assured that “he had missed the deadline to accept the king’s invitation.”

A little more than 24 hours before the start of Prince Harry’s trip, it seemed to have occurred a breakdown in communication between him and his father.

The BBC reported on Monday morning that a spokesperson for Harry had confirmed that the duke had “formally accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace during part of his visit to London this week.” However, sources close to the king stated that this information It was not true. The Duke of Sussex’s team claimed that he had accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace during part of his trip to the United Kingdom, until the Palace He withdrew the invitation.

The Duke of Sussex will visit the UK this week, starting today, to attend events marking the one-year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games, hosted by Harry in Birmingham.

The king had offered him his house at Highgrove, with its magnificent gardens in Gloucestershire, near Birmingham, and Windsor Palace, where there is security. All these invitations are cancelled.

Family internal relations are fierce among the Windsors. His brother, Prince William, He already behaves like a monarch in the face of cancer and his father’s weakness and opposes Harry’s arrival, as does his wife, Princess Catherine. Their fight is irreconcilable. Camilla, the queen, does not forgive Harry for what he wrote about her in his memoirs and persuades the king not to receive it. Except one, two of the king’s three private secretaries are against Harry.

The king wants to meet his grandchildren, move beyond his constant telephone dialogues with Harry, but the family environment and the “gray men” of the Palace obstruct him. Princess Anne and her daughter want a reconciliation, as do Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. They believe that this soap opera erodes the monarchy, which only 52% of British people support and young people reject.

Prince Harry has not confirmed whether his wife, Meghan, and their children will accompany him to Britain, even without armed British custody. He has his, which he brings from the United States, but cannot carry weapons.

Buckingham Palace has with 240 rooms; 52 of them are reserved for royals and their guests. To ensure smooth and safe operation, the presence of security personnel and equipment is necessary when a member of the royal family is staying at the Palace.

According to a royal source, the London residence requires “a minimum period of advance notice to be able to accommodate a guest appropriately.” At the moment, No one lives in the palace and it is undergoing repairs.

“Following the withdrawal of the accommodation offer, a spokesperson for Harry said: ‘Following RAVEC’s decision not to provide security for his family, the Duke spent last week arranging alternative security measures. With these measures in place, he was able to formally accept the offer of accommodation for himself for the weekend.’

‘It is therefore disappointing that the offer has now been withdrawn, citing Tuesday’s ruling in the case against Associated Newspapers Limited as the reason,’ the spokesperson said.

“However, Buckingham Palace was aware of the ruling as of last Thursday. It is therefore unclear why, having formally accepted the offer of accommodation, it has been withdrawn at the last minute,” he said.

The ruling in Harry’s court case against the editors of the Daily Mail will be announced on Tuesday, more than five months after Harry gave evidence at the High Court in London. It is believed that the Palace alluded to this fact so that King Charles could maintain his impartiality regarding the sentence.

Courtiers do not want Prince Harry to make a statement about the trial from the palace.

Harry plans to stay at a private residence, at an undisclosed locationafter arriving in the United Kingdom.

While in the UK, the prince will also travel to London to visit the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Prince Harry had planned to bring his wife, Meghan Markle, and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, for their first family visit to Harry’s native country. in four years.

It is still unclear if Meghan and the children will reunite with Harry later in the week for the Invictus Games event and to visit Princess Diana’s family home at Althorp Palace in Northamptonshire. The king will not modify his schedule to see them.