King Charles III is set to shut the door on any hopes of a royal reunion at Sandringham this summer, with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly left off the guest list following their eyebrow-raising trip to Australia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The 77-year-old monarch is said to be unimpressed by the Sussexes’ four-day visit Down Under, which wrapped on Sunday and saw Harry deliver a series of deeply personal – and pointed – remarks about royal life.<\/p>\n
During a paid appearance at the Interedge Summit in Melbourne, the Duke of Sussex revealed he never wanted to be a working royal<\/a>, linking his reluctance to the death of his mother, Princess Diana.<\/p>\n “After my mum died, just before my 13th birthday, I was like, ‘I don’t want this job. I don’t want this role’,” he told the crowd.<\/p>\n “Wherever this is headed, I don’t like it. It killed my mum, and I was very much against it.”<\/p>\n He also said he wanted to be a better parent than his father<\/a>, and credited therapy with helping him to “cleanse himself of the past”.<\/p>\n The comments have reportedly not gone down well behind palace doors, particularly given recent suggestions Harry was open to repairing relations with his family.<\/p>\n A friend of the prince recently told The Sunday Times he would “love” to reconnect and spend time at Sandringham during a planned UK visit in July, tied to meetings with Birmingham Invictus Games teams. <\/a><\/p>\n “He’d like an invite to Sandringham. Would he go? It would depend on who was there. If the King was to say, ‘Come up and spend some time with the family’, he’d love that,” the friend said.<\/p>\n But insiders now claim that prospect is firmly off the table.<\/p>\n “Charles won’t invite them. Especially not after their trip to Australia,” a source told journalist Paula Froelich.<\/p>\n According to the insider, the Sussexes’ public appearances – and Harry’s remarks – have been viewed as a direct contradiction of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s stance on stepping back from royal duties.<\/p>\n The late monarch had insisted there could be “no half in, half out” arrangement when the couple quit royal life and relocated to the US in 2020.<\/p>\n “They (Harry and Meghan) never would have pulled this stunt if the Queen were alive, but they can now?” the source said.<\/p>\n “Harry and Meghan will come. But it won’t be at the King’s invitation.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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