For the past three years, there has been a battle between King Charles III, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle.
That battle has been playing out on many fronts, including in the media, where stories have been leaked and via anonymous sources who set out the narrative that the players want out there.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also used their projects to settle the score with the Royal Family. However, this week, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and His Majesty seemed to have brought new ammunition to the warfare.
It all started after reports surfaced claiming that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle snubbed the Sovereign. The British media revealed that the Montecito royals were invited to King Charles’s 75th birthday party set for November 14, but they declined.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been accused of snubbing King Charles multiple times in the past, but this situation was different.
Within hours after the negative headline hit the press, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex‘s official spokesperson shut it down.
The representative said there has been zero contact between Prince Harry and his father for more than a year. The spokesperson made it clear that no invitation has been sent to Prince Harry or the former actress.
The spokesperson stated: “There has been no contact regarding an invitation to His Majesty’s upcoming birthday. It is disappointing that The Sunday Times has misreported this story.”
A friend of the Sussexes took it a step further by openly calling out King Charles and Queen Camilla, or at least their staff for leaking the story.
The close associate also explained that Buckingham Palace is pushing the snub birthday story because King Charles and his wife are trying to cover up the fact that their Kenyan tour was not a success.
The Mail Online reported: “A friend of the couple suggested the Palace could even have leaked the ‘snubbing’ story to take attention away from the recent royal visit to Kenya, where the King faced calls to apologize for Britain’s colonial past.”
The family friend said: “The story is being positioned in a way to make it look like the Duke is snubbing his father, which he is not. Considering the trip [to Kenya] didn’t go well, this might be a welcome distraction. The story in The Times as well as subsequent stories have been positioned in a way to make it look like the Duke is snubbing his father, which he is not.”
The feud is moving in a new direction.
I don’t think that it’s got anything to do with the tour or the fact that harry may of snubed the kings birthday invite I think that it’s more of a case that the royals on both sides of the pond aren’t saying anything about each other so the press have to make up a load of lies to sell their paper’s and make money the thing is that after the 3 or so years this has been going on there’s nothing else left to say and if there’s nothing coming out from the royals then as far as the press are concerned a lie will do nicely thank you