Prince Harry and Meghan Markle didn’t receive an invitation from the royal family to join them at Sandringham in Norfolk for their annual Christmas holiday, as per People magazine.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to spend Christmas in the United States where they live once again this year after an invitation to Sandringham wasn’t forthcoming as per a source.
The report emerged as Kate Middleton posted an emotional holiday message on her Instagram, writing that a “special letter, reflecting on the importance of love, empathy and how much we need one another in the most difficult times” will be sent to the guests invited to her second Together at Christmas Carol Service at Westminster Abbey next month “and the “fifteen Community Carol Services across the country, thanking those attending for all they do for others.”
The Sussexes haven’t spent Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family since 2018, the same year they were married.
The couple departed England in 2020 and eventually settled in California.
The couple continues to have a strained relationship with the senior royals, largely due to Harry’s revealing memoir “Spare,” their controversial 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and their Netflix series “Harry & Meghan,” which criticized the royal family as an institution.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla, along with Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their children—Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte—are expected to travel to Sandringham before Christmas and remain there until New Year’s.
The Princess of Wales held her first Together at Christmas carol service last year before she was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
