Despite reports the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex were asked to join Queen Elizabeth on her annual summer break
in the highlands, we’re told there was no such invite.
The Sun claimed that
staff at the 96-year-old monarch’s Scottish estate had been told to expect a
full list of royals, including “Harry, Meghan and their children Archie and
Lilibet.”
However, multiple sources
confirmed to Page Six that the Sussexes will not be going to visit Harry’s
grandmother.
The couple will stay in the US
ahead of the publication of Harry’s much-anticipated memoir this
fall.
Harry, 37, and Markle, 40,
last saw the Queen in June when they flew to the UK to celebrate her Platinum
Jubilee. There, they introduced baby daughter Lilibet — nicknamed
Lili — to the monarch for the first time.
Although they were not
invited on to the balcony at Buckingham Palace, the Sussexes — sans children —
then attended the Trooping the Colour ceremony and a Service of
Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral.
However, they did not spend
any private time with Harry’s brother, Prince William, his wife Kate Middleton
and their three children. Although they invited them to Lilibet’s first
birthday at their UK home, Frogmore Cottage, they were in Wales on
official business.
They did manage to introduce
Lilbet to her grandfather, Prince Charles, in an “emotional” meeting,
sources close to the heir to the throne later said.
