Prince Harry paid homage to his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II throughout his current return to the U.Ok. — however he didn’t stick round to see different family.
“Everyone is aware of how shut Harry and the queen had all the time been so visiting [her burial site] and having the ability to pay his respects meant the world to him,” a supply completely reveals within the newest situation of Us Weekly. “Though Harry resides within the States now, the U.Ok. will all the time really feel like residence to him, so it felt very particular that he was in a position to attend.”
Harry, 38, had a “very significant expertise” throughout his cease at St. George’s Chapel on Friday, September 8, the insider says. The prince marked the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s loss of life by spending time at her last resting place. He was on the town to attend the 2023 WellChild Awards sooner or later prior.
“Though Elizabeth handed away only a yr in the past, Harry can’t assist however acknowledge that his mother, [Princess Diana], and grandmother’s anniversary of passing is barely inside days of one another,” the supply tells Us, referring to Diana’s loss of life in August 1997.
The late princess, who shared Prince William and Harry with ex-husband King Charles III, was 36 when she was killed in a automotive accident in Paris. Elizabeth, in the meantime, died in September 2022 on the age of 96. The late monarch celebrated her seventieth yr on the throne that June.
“[This was] one thing he wanted to do alone,” a second supply tells Us of Harry’s selection to go to St. George’s Chapel with out spouse Meghan Markle. “Meghan stayed again with the children and helped with numerous last-minute work [ahead of] the Invictus Video games.”
Apart from honoring the queen’s reminiscence, Harry saved his U.Ok. journey strictly about enterprise earlier than jetting off to Düsseldorf, Germany, on Saturday, September 9, for the beginning of the Invictus Video games.
“Harry didn’t see his father or brother,” the second insider notes. “He felt that this event was for him to pay his respects to his grandmother.” (Harry has been at odds with Charles, 74, and William, 41, since he and Meghan, 42, relocated to the U.S. in 2020 and the pair stepped again as senior royals. Pressure grew after Harry revealed his tell-all, Spare, in January, during which he slammed The Agency and his family.)
Harry — who’s a cofounder of the worldwide sporting occasion for wounded, injured or sick navy veterans — can be joined by Meghan for the closing ceremony on the Invictus Video games, which conclude on Saturday, September 16.
The couple “felt it was higher for her to hold again residence for now and stick with the children for a bit longer,” the primary insider tells Us. Harry and Meghan share son Archie, 4, and daughter Lili, 2.
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