Despite their ongoing dispute with the government over police protection, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will travel to the UK next month for the first time since the Platinum Jubilee to attend two charitable events.
On September 5, the couple will fly to Manchester for the One Young World Summit, a gathering of young leaders from more than 190 nations.
Following the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 One Year to Go event, Harry and Meghan will travel to Germany before returning to the UK on September 8 for the WellChild Awards.
Along with others like Jamie Oliver, Sir Richard Branson, and Justin Trudeau, the Duchess of Sussex serves as a counsellor for the One Young World Summit.
Their trip to the UK will mark their first return to the nation since the early June Platinum Jubilee festivities. It is unknown if their one-year-old Lilibet or their three-year-old son Archie will accompany them.
The Queen reportedly extended an invitation to the Sussexes to spend time with them at Balmoral this summer, according to reports from last month. It’s unclear if the Sussexes will pay the monarch a visit while on their trip.
Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are thrilled to visit with several charities near and dear to their hearts in early September, according to a spokesman for the couple.
The announcement made today comes shortly after news broke that Harry had sued the government and Scotland Yard for denying him the right to pay for police protection while on visit from California.
The Duke of Sussex has already filed a lawsuit against the Home Office over its decision to end his taxpayer-funded protection in 2020.
According to him, this makes it unsafe for him to visit Britain with his wife, Meghan Markle, and two children, Archie and Lilibet, who are also his legal dependents.
If the couple hopes to see the Queen in London or Windsor during their trip next month, the Queen’s schedule may present difficulties.
A bombshell memoir that will be published later this year also threatened to overshadow Harry’s private meetings with other senior royals.
On September 5, the day of the Sussexes’ visit to Manchester, the Conservative Party will elect the new prime minister.
Soon after, the Queen typically meets the new PM.
After spending “barely 15 minutes” with the queen during the Platinum Jubilee festivities this summer, the couple is likely to want to spend more time with her.
Despite travelling from the US with their two kids, Archie and Lilibet, the couple only made one public appearance over the Jubilee weekend.
When the Trooping of the Color took place, they were absent from the Buckingham Palace balcony, and they appeared to be seated in the back row at the Thanksgiving service.
According to reports, palace staffers planned the timing of the Platinum Jubilee service to prevent William and Kate from running into Meghan and Harry.
Royal aides made sure the couple was seated on a different side of the aisle from Prince William, Kate, Prince Charles, and Camilla in the church.
The brothers and their wives’ arrival and departure times were also carefully planned by Palace aides to prevent a collision.
The Duke of Sussex has also accused his father of financially cutting him off, and Meghan has claimed that an unnamed royal made a remark about Archie’s skin tone before he was born, which she revealed to Oprah Winfrey in a shocking interview last year. Harry and William have a long-standing feud.
According to reports, Harry’s new legal case against the Home Office is still in its early stages and no hearing dates have been set.
It will centre on the Royalty and VIP Executive Committee’s (RAVEC) judgement from January, which held that private citizens shouldn’t be permitted to pay for police protection.
Due to allegations that the Queen’s Private Secretary, Sir Edward Young, was involved in the choice to refuse Harry protection, the discovery of a second court case, which came to light on Meghan’s birthday, threatens to exacerbate strained relations with the Royal Family.
The prince’s legal team claims that there were “significant tensions” between the Duke of Sussex and Sir Edward.
After being informed that he would no longer receive the “same degree” of personal protective security when travelling from the US, The Duke has been suing the department.
His representatives have previously stated that he wishes to bring his family from the United States to visit, but that they are “unable to return to his home” due to the level of danger there.
The Home Office is said to have spent £90,094.79 on the case between September 2021 and May of this year.
According to The Sun, this amount is said to include £55,254 for the government’s legal department, £34,824 for attorneys, and £16.55 for couriers.
The Duchess of Sussex has been the subject of explosive allegations in a new royal biography, which the news of her return to the UK coincides with.
The Duchess “expected the royal family would be like Hollywood,” according to Tom Bower, the author of a brand-new insider’s account of the royal pair titled Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the fight between the Windsors.
Speaking to Ben Shephard and Charlotte Hawkins on Good Morning Britain, he asserted that Meghan lost interest in the royal family after realising there was “loads of effort and little return.”
She wasn’t well-known; rather, she was a third-rate actor, and only a million people watched Suits, the author claimed.
The author acknowledged during the interview that several of his sources didn’t like Meghan because she had told her family members not to speak to him.
Shephard informed Bower that she was a well-known actress. She was well-known in Hollywood and Suits was a globally streamed television series, so many people were familiar with her.
In contrast to the host, Bower brought up Meghan’s Vanity Fair cover story from when she was dating Prince Harry.
I disagree with you, but we won’t dispute about it, he said. The fact is, even Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair who ordered the feature, had never heard of her or Suits before she met Harry.
She was famous, as he had recently been informed that anyone who marries Harry will be.
She told her father, “I want to be famous. I want to go down the red carpet,” and by being married to Harry, she fulfilled that dream.
The author continued by saying that in his opinion, the royal family made a concerted effort to accommodate Meghan and integrate her into the family.
People were “extremely enthusiastic” about the impending arrival of a mixed-race child, he asserted, and it would be “a tremendous development for the royal family.”
He claimed that “things went wrong,” and that he has “explained clearly” why in his new book.
“Both sides are at fault, but I think Meghan is primarily at blame since I don’t think she understood the monarchy,” he said.
The author continued by acknowledging that many of the sources for the book’s content came from those who dislike Meghan since she had urged those closest to her not to speak to him.
She made it very plain to all of her friends and coworkers that they should not speak to him, so it was a battle.
Nevertheless, he stated, “I got enough people to speak to me, more than enough, I got approximately 80 people.”
Given that we already know that the folks interviewed don’t like Meghan, Shephard questioned Bower about how the book could be an objective account.
Because I sifted through, I never included information that couldn’t be verified or wasn’t factual, the author claimed.
“You know, I kind of admire Meghan for how she managed to combine her objectives and her success in life, and I was able to do the same.”