Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be invited to the Queen's jubilee
Family meeting? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may return to the UK in June 2022 for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.
"The Jubilee is a family event and the entire Queen's family will be invited, including Harry, Meghan and her children," says a source We Weekly.
Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, will be parents of two by then. His daughter is expected to join a 2 year old Archie this summer.
Plans for the Platinum Jubilee were released earlier this week. The celebration will begin on June 2, 2022 with Trooping the Color. The 95-year-old queen and members of the royal family will witness the parade from a balcony at Buckingham Palace.
Events will continue with a Thanksgiving Service on June 3 at St. Paul's Cathedral. The monarch and her family will then watch a horse race in the Derby at Epsom Downs on June 4 and attend a concert with “some of the world's biggest entertainment stars” later that day. The Jubilee will conclude on June 5 with a lunch and a parade.
Prince Charles, Duchess Camila, Prince William and Duchess Kate attend the festivities each year, although the Jubilee was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Harry and Meghan most recently appeared at the event. in June 2019. The couple announced their intentions to step back in January 2020, and Buckingham Palace confirmed in February 2021 that they would not return as working royalty. "While we are all saddened by his decision, the Duke and Duchess remain very dear members of the family," the queen said in a statement at the time.
The Duke of Sussex met his grandmother in the UK in April in the middle of Prince Philip's funeral. The couple reportedly spoke privately on at least two occasions during their visit.
An insider told exclusively to Us in March that Elizabeth "has always had a soft spot for Harry and I took care of him." Although she tried "to be understanding and see things from Harry's perspective" after he and Meghan made shocking allegations about royalty in their CBS reveal interview, she found the claims difficult to "digest."
However, the duo had nothing but kind words to say about the queen during the sit-in. "I've talked to my grandmother more in the last year than I have in many, many years," Harry noted. “We made a couple of Zoom calls with Archie. … My grandmother and I have a very good relationship and understanding. And I have a deep respect for him. She is my colonel-in-chief, right? She always will be. "
Meghan, who was unable to travel to the UK for Philip's funeral due to her pregnancy, was delighted that her grandmother "has always been wonderful to me."
