PRINCE HARRY. Harry was present at the coronation of his father, King Charles III, on Saturday May 6. Conflicted with his family, he did not appear on the balcony at Buckingham with the rest of the royal family.
Prince Harry was a guest at the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday May 6 and was spotted in Westminster Abbey. However, his time in London was only short-lived. The prince, who came without his wife Meghan Markle and without his two children, was present for the official ceremony at Westminster Abbey. After exile in the United States, Harry is no longer considered an active member of the royal family. He therefore did not appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with his family. He must then return to Los Angeles, to find his wife and children, including his eldest son Archie, who turns four that same day.
During the coronation, Harry was installed in the third row, behind Princess Anne, sister of the king. His brother William, a direct heir with whom relations would be strained, was installed in the front row. During this event, Harry appeared smiling and arrived at the same time as his cousin Beatrice. It was Prince Harry’s first public appearance with his family since the publication of his autobiography, The Substitute, in which he revealed tensions with his father, his brother, but also his stepmother, Camilla, held responsible for the divorce from his parents. This whirlwind trip to London for the coronation of Charles III will probably not have been enough to ease his tensions, even if the royal family showed a united front.
Before confirming his presence at the coronation of Charles III, Prince Harry would have had “positive conversations” with his father, according to information from the British daily The Telegraph published on April 16, citing a source close to Harry and Meghan. . A gesture from King Charles also suggests that the sovereign is part of a process of normalizing relations with his son. As reported by the Daily Mail, a photo in which we see in particular Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, his brother William, Kate Middleton, Charles III and Camilla is included in the “official souvenir program” of the coronation of Charles III. This 84-page folder is sold on the Royal Collection Shop website.
But these encouraging signs would only concern the strict relationship between the king and his youngest son. Camilla would not be in the Duke of Sussex’s good graces. The second wife of Charles, long held responsible for the divorce between Lady Diana and the eldest son of Elizabeth II, suffered numerous criticisms scattered in the pages of Prince Harry’s memoirs, entitled The Substitute and published last January.
Prince Harry has accused his mother-in-law of leading a “campaign to achieve wifehood, and ultimately the Crown”. According to him, Camilla would have revealed private conversations of the royal family in the press. The case echoes the lawsuits that Prince Harry is currently leading against the English tabloids. Prince Harry accuses News Group Newspapers, publisher of British tabloid The Sun, of obtaining information about him illegally, including by hacking into his voicemail. In his book, Prince Harry also said he, together with his brother, begged King Charles III never to marry Camilla. These statements should not have contributed to the good understanding between Harry and Camilla and a few days before the coronation, no information has circulated on a possible improvement in their relationship.
Relations between Prince Harry and his brother William have “never been so bad” indicated a source within the royal family to the Daily Express, before the confirmation of the presence of the cadet at the coronation. Relations between Harry and the princely couple still seem to be stormy. The heir to the throne would be “stunned” by the behavior of his little brother who announced his arrival at the ceremony a week after the end of the deadline for answers, recalls BFMTV. The break would be such that, according to the Belgian daily La Libre which quotes royal expert Robert Jobson, Prince William would push for his brother to be stripped of his title of Duke of Sussex.
Relations between Prince William and his brother should not improve any time soon, given the latest revelations made by Harry against the Prince of Wales. As part of the legal proceedings he has brought against the newspaper publisher News Group Newspapers, which he accuses of obtaining information about him illegally, Harry claims that his brother has allegedly dropped proceedings against the same publishing group in exchange for a “significant sum of money”. In documents sent by Harry to the British justice, which The Guardian relays, Harry thus affirms that his brother would have filed a complaint against the publisher, but that the case would have been settled amicably in 2020 through of the transfer to William of this sum of money. If there is nothing to confirm Harry’s words, there is no doubt that the new accusations against his brother are likely to further aggravate their already conflicting relationship.
The break between the Sussex camp and the Firm has been recorded since the couple’s exile in the United States, far from the monarchy, and Harry and Meghan’s renunciation of their royal functions, at the start of 2020. Since then, nothing seems to facilitate the reconciliation of the two parties. And the Sussex couple takes their share of the responsibility because they regularly criticize the royal family. Tensions came to a head when Prince Harry’s memoir was released in January 2023. Prior to this, Archie and Lilibeth’s parents stepped up interviews in which they denounced certain aspects of the Crown. In February 2021, at the microphone of the American presenter Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry denounced alongside his wife the presence of racism in the royal family.
New charges could sour Harry’s already contentious relationship with the royal family. Engaged in legal proceedings against the publisher News Group Newspapers, responsible among other things for the British tabloid The Sun, the Duke of Sussex accuses the media group of having obtained information about him illegally. Note that the group is also the publisher of the tabloid News of the World, which closed in 2011 following a similar scandal. A journalist for the magazine admitted in a previous trial to having hacked into Kate Middleton’s voicemail 155 times between 2005 and 2011, and to having done the same with the voicemails of Harry and his brother William, recalls RTL .
But in his legal battle, Harry takes on the royal family, whom he accuses of having made a “secret agreement” with the leaders of the publisher. An agreement concluded “before 2012” according to The Guardian and which would have had the effect of complicating the actions of the prince in justice. According to the Duke of Sussex, the agreement provided that Harry and William would not take legal action against the publisher while other proceedings against the company for similar facts were in progress. In exchange, they would then have obtained, at the end of these legal proceedings, an amicable agreement as well as an apology.
According to information from the Guardian, Prince Harry explains that this agreement would have been made because the Crown “was incredibly nervous” and “wanted at all costs to avoid” a new controversy that could damage his reputation. A reference to the 1993 scandal, when The Sun illegally obtained and transcribed an intimate conversation between Charles III and Camilla from 1989, when the king was still married to Lady Diana. The Daily Telegraph adds that Harry believes the deal was part of a “long-term strategy” by the Crown to keep the media on their side in order to facilitate British public acceptance of Camilla’s integration. in the royal family. For its part, News Group Newspapers denies the existence of this agreement.
Prince Harry was born on September 15, 1984 in London. He is the youngest son of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer as well as the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. He grew up alongside his brother William while their parents maintained a tumultuous relationship. Young Prince Harry lost his mother in a tragic car accident when he was not yet 13 years old. He graduated from Eton College and then joined and served in the army for 10 years. It sponsors many associations and brings its support and visibility to various causes (poor children, people with AIDS, war wounded, etc.). Spyed on from an early age by the paparazzi, he was the subject of scandals on several occasions. Harry was his brother William’s best man when he married Kate Middleton in 2011.
After several long relationships scrutinized by the press, Prince Harry announced his engagement to American actress Meghan Markle in 2017. They married in front of viewers around the world on May 19, 2018 at St. George’s Chapel in the Château de Windsor. Their son Archie was born on May 6, 2019 in London. The couple no longer supporting the media coverage of the English tabloids, he announced in January 2020 his desire to put an end to his duties with regard to the royal family and his intention to withdraw from it. Harry and Maghan leave England for Canada then settle in California, in the United States. An interview with Oprah Winfrey, rich in revelations about the royal family, sets fire to the powder between princes Harry and William. Prince Harry said he was very “disappointed” by his father Charles. On June 4, 2021, the couple gave birth to a baby girl, Lilibeth Diana. Prince Harry and his family are traveling to England in June 2022 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee with the rest of the royal family. In September 2022 he will do the same for the death and funeral of the queen.
Henry Charles Albert David De Galles, nicknamed Harry, was born on September 15, 1984 at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington in London. Grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, he is the youngest son of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles of Wales, heir to the British throne. From the age of six, Harry joined his brother William at the prestigious Wetherby School in London. Their mother tries to give them as normal a childhood as possible.
Young Harry is marked by his parents’ stormy relationship and then by the tragic death of his mother in 1997 when he was only 12 years old. The following year, he was admitted to Eton College where he studied geography, art and art history. Once he graduated, he took a sabbatical year and stayed in Africa (Lesotho), Argentina and then Australia. His hobbies are polo, rugby union, skiing and motocross.
Freshly graduated, Prince Harry stayed in Lesotho where he worked with orphaned children and produced the documentary film The Forgotten Kingdom. Between 2005 and 2006, he completed officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and became a second lieutenant. The military authorities refuse to send him to fight in Iraq because he would become a prime target for the insurgents. He is finally sent on a mission to Afghanistan under a false identity. Nearly ten weeks later, he was urgently evacuated when an American website revealed that the prince was in that country.
Thereafter Harry becomes an Apache attack helicopter pilot but is not sent back to the field because of the security problems that his presence would imply. In 2015, he resigned from the army because the pursuit of an administrative career at the general staff did not suit him. Alongside his military commitments, Harry sponsors and helps charities. In particular, he initiated the Invictus Games, a multi-sport competition for wounded soldiers and war veterans and people with disabilities.
After several long relationships scrutinized by the press, Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle on November 27, 2017. The latter is an American actress known for her role as Rachel Zane in the judicial television series Suits. The following day, their wedding date was officially announced as May 19, 2018 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. In view of the marriage, Meghan Markle is baptized and confirmed in the Anglican faith.
A few hours before the ceremony, the Queen grants Harry and Meghan the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They are cheered by nearly 100,000 visitors in the city of Windsor and their wedding is scrutinized by nearly 2 billion viewers. Despite the popular success of the ceremony, Meghan Markle quickly became the target of the English tabloids. Their first child, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was born on May 6, 2019 in London. Two days later, he was shown to international media in St. George’s Gallery at Windsor Castle before being introduced to his great-grandparents.
In January 2020, after months of unhealthy hype, including about Meghan Markle’s family, Prince Harry and his wife officially expressed their willingness to end their duties to the royal family and their intention to set back from it. They wish to become non-working members of the royal family, gain financial independence, and live between North America and England. The case caused a stir and the English tabloid press nicknamed it “Megxit”, in reference to Brexit.
The couple must renounce the predicate of royal highnesses but retain the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Their departure entails the loss of their right to police protection. They must also reimburse the taxpayer for the £2.4million spent on refurbishing Frogmore Cottage, the mansion they were intended to reside in. Harry and Meghan lived in Canada for a few months, then moved with their son to Beverly Hills and then to Montecito, California.
Spouses no longer receiving any pension embark on various activities in order to finance their lifestyle and the devices necessary for their safety. In particular, they sign a multi-year contract with the Netflix platform (estimated at $100 million) to produce series, documentaries and children’s programs. While appearing on the show hosted by Oprah Winfrey in early 2021, they announce that their second unborn child is a girl. Lilibet (commonly known as “Lili”) Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on June 4, 2021 in Santa Barbara, northwest Los Angeles, where the family settled.
Relations between Princes Harry and William reportedly began to deteriorate upon Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle. When the couple stepped down from their royal duties, the dissension between the two brothers seemed to have driven a deep wedge. Prince William would also not have digested the way his brother publicly spoke about his relations with the royal family during the Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021. Royal family observers hoped for a rapprochement, at least public, during the Queen’s Jubilee in June 2022 or even in September, during the Queen’s death and funeral. The planetary event will generate plenty of commentary, where every detail will be scrutinized to assess Harry’s relationship with the rest of his family, from invitations to official ceremonies and private gatherings, to the outfit that the prince has been allowed to wear. to wear, through gestures and looks alongside his brother and his father, who had just become king.
In mid-July 2022, a shocking book by Tom Bower “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors”, looking back at Meghan and Harry’s split from the royal family in 2020, had been in the headlines for several days. . The prospect of the release of Prince Harry’s memoirs in the fall of 2022 could also have shaken the British Crown, these being then presented as “a response” to this book judged to be against his couple.
