What Made Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Say No to King Charles’ Balmoral Invite

Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle chose not to join the royal family’s traditional summer trip to Balmoral.

According to biographer Tom Bower, back in 2019 the couple said their son Archie was too young — only three months old — to make the journey by plane to Scotland. But controversy followed when, around the same time, they were seen taking Archie on a private jet holiday to Ibiza. Many critics saw this as a double standard.

The situation was especially striking because Balmoral has deep personal meaning for Harry. He spent much of his childhood there with Prince William, and it was at Balmoral where he learned of his mother Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Meghan, on the other hand, only visited the Scottish estate once — right after her wedding in 2018. Read More

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