Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t join Royal Family for Christmas after Sandringham ‘snub’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t join the rest of the Royal Family for Christmas this year as they have reportedly not been invited to the festivities.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex haven’t received an invitation to the royals’ Christmas at Sandringham, it has been reported.
They are expected to spend the festive holidays in America instead with their children Archie and Lilibet.
Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, haven’t spent Christmas with the Royal Family in the UK for six years.
They were also not invited to Trooping the Colour in June of this year for the King’s birthday/
Prince William, Kate, and their three children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are set to spend Christmas at Sandringham.
Meghan Markle previously revealed how the Sussexes celebrate the holidays at their home in California since she and Prince Harry stepped down from the royal family in 2020.
Meghan stressed the importance of making ‘room at your table for your friends who don’t have family’ such as feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who once joined the Sussexes’ Thanksgiving party.
The former Suits actress, who married Harry in 2018, added it is important to the couple that Archie and Lilibet experience the ‘magic’ of festive traditions such as putting out ‘carrots for the reindeer’ at Christmas.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t join the rest of the Royal Family for Christmas this year as the Sussexes have reportedly not been invited. They are pictured on Christmas in 2017
Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, haven’t spent Christmas with the Royal Family in the UK for six years. They are pictured on Christmas Day in 2018 at the Church of St Mary Magdalene
The Wales’s at the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on December 25, 2023
According to People magazine, the Sussexes will spend the holidays in America again this year.
In 2019, they spent Christmas in Canada and just two weeks later, they announced their decision to step back as working royals.
They haven’t returned to Sandringham for the holidays since.
Meghan and Harry joined the Royal Family for the annual Christmas Day service at Sandringham for two years – 2018 and 2019 – before they announced they were quitting the Firm and moving stateside.
The Sussexes released the first picture of their daughter Lilibet, who turned three this year, in a family Christmas card that was released on December 23, 2021.
The photo features Lilibet’s older brother Archie seated on the Duke’s lap, with Meghan holding the smiling toddler.
On Friday, The Mirror reported that William and Kate, both 42, will join senior members of The Firm for the annual Christmas Day Service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham on December 25.
It will be a special Christmas for the family as they come together after what has been a difficult year following Charles, 76, and Kate’s back-to-back cancer diagnoses.
Sources told the newspaper Charles, who is currently in Sandringham, is ‘delighted’ that the whole family will be together for the holidays – with the monarch reportedly overseeing the planning himself.
