It has been confirmed that the three day visit will see the King spend a day in Washington followed by a day in New York, however the location of the third day is yet to be confirmed. Palace aides are understood to have ruled out a West Coast leg of the tour, ensuring the monarch will not travel to the state where the Duke of Sussex now lives with Meghan Markle and their children. The decision all but confirms there will be no face-to-face encounter between father and son during the visit, despite it marking one of the most significant diplomatic moments of the King’s reign.
Royal sources insist the schedule is being shaped around the demands of a short, tightly organised programme centred on America’s semiquincentennial events.
However, the absence of a California stop will inevitably fuel speculation about the continuing rift within the Royal Family.
Harry has lived in Montecito since stepping back from royal duties in 2020.
Relations between him and the rest of the family have remained strained following a series of interviews and the prince’s controversial memoir in which he spoke critically about the Queen and his brother Prince William.
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The slimmed down schedule reflects the King’s ongoing cancer treatment and his age, 77, making him more than a quarter of a century older than his mother was when she undertook an extensive royal rout of the country in 1976.
On that occasion, Queen Elizabeth II began in Philadelphia before spending two days in Washington, where she famously danced with President Gerald Ford at the White House.
She then boarded the Royal Yacht Britannia for a sweeping itinerary that included New York, New Haven, Charlottesville, Newport and Boston — a celebratory tour that spanned much of the eastern seaboard.
Discussions are still understood to be taking place over a potential summer visit by the Prince of Wales, who is expected to visit the country during this summer’s World Cup in North America to coincide with his role as patron of the Football Association.
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