Prince Harry will stay in a hotel when he visits the UK next week, according to reports.
The Duke Of Sussex is due to fly to London to speak at St Paul’s Cathedral on May 8 at a special event held to celebrate the Invictus Games’ tenth anniversary. Harry founded the sporting event back in 2014 when he was still a working Royal.
The trip will see Harry return to the UK but no senior Royals are expected to attend to show support for the Invictus Games. Harry and his wife Meghan Markle no longer have a UK home after they were evicted from Frogmore Cottage by King Charles in the summer of 2023, reports The Mirror.
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The move means on his most recent visits to the UK he has stayed at hotels instead of the residence on the grounds of Windsor Castle. Harry had his request to stay at Windsor Castle in September 2023 denied with the Royal Family citing a lack of notice as the reason for the denial.
Since then the Duke has not stayed at a Royal residence and is reportedly expected to once again stop at a hotel when he makes his short trip next week. His wife Meghan will not be accompanying him for the trip as she is remaining in the US to prepare for the unofficial royal tour of Nigeria they have planned just days after the Invictus event in London.
The former Suits star’s appearance at the event had long been speculated before it was announced last week she would be staying stateside. Her no-show is said to be likely to leave Harry feeling “so lonely” as he continues to also deal with his fractured relationship with the Royal Family, a royal expert has claimed.
Speaking to GB News, Mail on Sunday’s Royal Editor, Charlotte Griffiths, explained how Harry would have “loved” to have had his immediate family by his side, especially with the event being at St Paul’s Cathedral, where his mum and dad were married.
Griffiths said the occasion would be “very sombre” and claimed: “It’s a really important part of Harry’s soul, and the kind of thing he’d want his wife, maybe even his kids by his side for.”
She continued: “Meghan is leaving him there alone, and I just think he’s going to cast a really lonely portrait of a man without his friends around him, without his family and without senior members of the Royal Family. And no wife there with him as well.”