Prince Harry has been accused of declining an invite to celebrate his father’s 75th birthday.
King Charles will celebrate the milestone birthday next Tuesday and he’s holding a celebration at Clarence House in London to mark the occasion.
While his closest family and friends are set to attend, insiders say the Duke of Sussex will not be attending.
It’s a stark contrast to Charles’s 70th birthday, as Harry and Meghan delayed their honeymoon to attend his garden party celebration.
This time it appears Harry has turned down the opportunity to spend time with his father, after his bombshell memoir Spare caused tensions within the royal family.
This is the second time Harry has turned down the chance to spend time with his father, MailOnline reports.
In September he declined the king’s offer to join him in Balmoral on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death – despite being in the UK at the time, attending a charity event.
In fact it is thought Harry and Charles haven’t spoken to each other in person since last September, during the mourning period and funeral for the late queen.
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Harry did fly to the UK from California to attend King Charles’s coronation in May, but he was on British soil for less than 24 hours and only popped into Buckingham Palace briefly before returning to the US.
A royal insider claimed the Duke of Sussex didn’t receive any birthday messages from his father or brother, Prince William, in September, with the Royal Family not publicly noting his or daughter Lilibet’s birthdays as they have for other royals this year.
The royal family’s website has even removed Harry’s HRH title.
It’s thought this lack of contact could be due to Charles’s ‘disappointment and dismay’ at Harry’s depiction of Queen Camilla in his book.
This an insider claimed earlier this year that Harry and Meghan will ‘spare family pain’ with no more plans for TV shows or book deals about the family.
Prince Harry also subtly criticised his royal upbringing in the Heart of Invictus documentary, saying he had ‘no one around [him]’ to ‘help’, claiming he had no ‘support structure’ and that he suppressed his past trauma.
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