Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to miss the Royal Family’s annual summer holiday despite an “open invitation” from King Charles, according to a source close to The Firm.
King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to head to Scotland next week for their first Balmoral stay without the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Prince William and Princess Kate will, of course, join their family at some point over the few weeks.
However, Meghan and Harry will most likely not attend the annual summer holiday as relationships between father and son have deteriorated since the release of Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare.
“It’s been a very visibly challenging year when it comes to the Sussexes,” a friend of the family told the Daily Mail.
Not only is Charles’s relationship with Harry under strain, contact between Prince William and his brother is reportedly nil meaning any chance of reconciliation is a long way off.
“You can read the room on that as to where things are [between them],” another source told the paper.
They added: “It’s sad, but it is what is. This is a family as well as an institution.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were said to have been invited to Balmoral by the late Queen last year but declined the invitation.
The property was largely thought to be Her Majesty’s favourite where she could get away from many of the rigours of being the Monarch and relax – to an extent – with her family.
Meghan and Harry spent some time in Balmoral in 2018 following their wedding and returned in 2019 as part of the traditional family trip. By 2020, the Sussexes had split from the family and moved to North America.
They now live in Montecito, California with their children, Prince Archie, 4, and Princess Lilibet, 1.
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