Judging from the wealth of “no sh-t Sherlock” royal stories coming out in recent days, I feel strongly that Buckingham Palace courtiers did a major briefing for the royal rota during Thanksgiving week (here in America). There were widespread confirmations that Prince William and Kate would “join the king” for Christmas in Norfolk, and confirmations that Prince Andrew was also welcome at Sandringham. As long as palace courtiers were confirming royal Christmas plans, why not also suggest to Richard Eden that the Sussexes “would be welcomed back” if they gave up everything they have in America. And of course, until that happens, the Sussexes are never going to be invited to spend Christmas at Sandringham:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not be joining the royal family for Christmas at Sandringham this year.
A source tells PEOPLE that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not received an invitation to this year’s royal Christmas gathering at Sandringham. The couple, who are expected to spend the holidays in the U.S., haven’t taken part in Christmas with the royal family since 2018, the year they married.
Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, were also not invited to Trooping the Colour in June of this year, the annual birthday celebration for King Charles, which came a month after Harry and his father didn’t meet up when the Duke of Sussex was in the U.K. for the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Invictus Games. At the time, a spokesperson for Prince Harry attributed the missed reunion to the King’s “full schedule,” amid ongoing tensions between Harry and both his father, Charles, and his older brother, Prince William.
Prince William, his wife Kate Middleton, and their three children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are set to spend Christmas at Sandringham, though both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace (where the Prince and Princess of Wales’ office is located) declined to comment on the Christmas guest list.
While this is not a surprise – King Charles hasn’t invited the Sussexes to any holiday or birthday party since his reign began – it’s worth pointing out how all of this is obviously coming from the same series of palace briefings. In the same briefing, they confirmed that Charles invited Andrew and the Yorks to Sandringham, because Charles’s rationale is that Christmas is a family holiday and it’s all a “private celebration.” Yet when a potential olive branch could have been offered to the Sussexes using the same private/family rationale, it’s rejected. For reasons! Follow my train of thought here: I’ve always been shocked by Charles’s inability to manipulate the Sussex situation into his favor. He could publicly invite the Sussexes and say, on the record, that he would love nothing more than to see Archie and Lili for Christmas. Then, if the Sussexes reject his invitation, they would look like a–holes and Charles would look like the magnanimous grandfather who just wanted to put pettiness aside for the holidays. Instead, Charles looks petty and hateful. As always.
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So even cancer has not softened his heart towards his own son, Meghan and two adorable grandchildren and yet this man is a father, FIL, grandfather and head of the church ??
Head of the church perhaps but a ‘good Christian’ I don’t think so. I expect that Harry would rather sit down to his Christmas dinner with his children as well as his wife, rather than his children having their dinner in another room.
Eh, invited or not, I don’t think anyone would look askance at someone who declined to travel with two small children halfway around the world for a holiday.
Well said. My thoughts exactly!
For people who are obsessed with PR and how everything looks, they are extremely bad at it. Shunning your son and his family is not a good look. Allowing the only biracial members of the family to get abused is not a good look. Books will be written about how badly the Windsors handled all of this.
Don’t forget that Chuck was “reassured” that the public would not be upset if Harry and his wife and children were killed.
It is a bad look for Charles that he favors the elder children over the Sussex children. I doubt he sees much of the Wales children maybe just George gets attention.
I don’t think he cares about any of his children and grandchildren. He’s never forgiven his own children for also being Diana’s.
It’s all so ridiculous. I can’t imagine taking a what, ten hour flight, from the US to the UK with two young children in tow, to spend Christmas with “family” that hate you, at least one of whom is a known… pdf file. I wouldn’t let Andrew anywhere near my kids, thankyouverymuch.
Seriously, who would volunteer for any of this?
I know, right? And I would NOT think the Sussexes were “a-holes” if they refused such an invitation.
Gah! I really should learn to read through all the comments before commenting! I said pretty much the same thing just above. It’s a long way to go to spend time with people who hate you.
Should be delightful to spend Christmas with people who say they hate you. Then there is Charles and Andrew (and possibly Will) feuding over Royal Lodge. And Cam with her racist, sexist, bragged about “sense of humour” that Diana lacked. You also can’t forget being paraded around in public and being separated from your children for the adults only portions of the holiday. Who would want an invitation?
I guess Camilla thought it funny what Clarkson wrote and thought it witty to name call Diana. Andrew of course is allowed to be there he even was driven to the service by William at an event.
Charles doesn’t want the Sussexes there because they would steal the show; even if they didn’t participate in the walk to and from church, the media coverage would be all about them. Charles is a petty, jealous man.
As to the “not invited/snubbed” stories, just the normal rinse and repeat nonsense that’s going to happen for every major royal event in the years ahead.
The BM is back on this again? Why they don’t break the invisible contract and expose the truth about the Wales marriage? The War of the Waleses 2.0 would be a moneymaker plus it takes away the national security risk of an enemy of the UK being able to blackmail the BRF. How far will the Windsors go to prevent
their tattered image to become more damaged? Pay off the blackmailer without using private funds, or Charles (then William in time) or ĥand over the state papers in the red boxes that could harm the UK?
I’d really love it if a legitimate foreign press broke the news, then the British press could report and expand on it without “breaking the contract”!
@MADS
💯! Yes, Chuck and Seabiscuit don’t want the charismatic Sussex family in the UK at all, let alone Christmas. Also, they know they are in the wrong and are too proud and bigoted to admit it.
Seriously, the Windsors look TERRIBLE acting this way. The press won’t write the truth about the Tampon Twosome while Chuck is on this earth but when he’s gone…
@809Matriarch, I don’t believe that C&C or WandK “know” or even think that they are in the wrong, they simply aren’t evolved enough or self-aware enough to realize that. Also, they’ve been raised to believe that everything they do/think is wonderful, the best ever and always correct, so why would they ever think anything different?
This is because Harry is suing the newspapers. He can’t be seen with Harry or his family or those same tabloids will go after him and expose his secrets. He is weak and owned by the editors of those tabloids Also he can’t forgive Harry for speaking the truth about his horse face wife in his book. This will never happen because Harry did speak the truth which is playing out today. We all can see that she is behind a lot of this. Harry was right about her.
What C&C secrets are left for the tabloids to expose? We already know about the tampon phone call, the bags of cash and the duchy shakedown of government and charities. Are the tabloids sitting on evidence related to a certain Paris car crash?
That and/or evidence that Camilla co-conspired with the BM against Harry and Meghan. I think he wants the facts established in court in the public sphere.
Charles won’t invite Harry (and only him) to Christmas unless he drops his court cases. Anyway I doubt Harry wants to spend Christmas with the Windsors.
I seriously doubt that Harry and Meg give a f**k about being invited or not to Christmas with leftovers. They have their own family and friends that I’m sure they are so much happier to spend their time with at the holidays.
It’s like that news story they used to repeat every week on SNL – “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”
I suppose Charles’ strategy is to remind the world that H&M might think they’re rich and successful in the US, but they’re nothing unless he invites them back into the RF. Except, at this point, the world is thinking “whatever.”
Ha! I remember those! For the non-boomers among us: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/18p2uow/snl_compilation_generalisimo_francisco_franco_is/?rdt=54464
Eden has really cut back on the snark. In years past there would have been much more gloating and references to evil Meghan. Those old gotcha articles are selling like they use to. Oh well! My joy is in thinking that little Archie and Lili will run down their own staircase to see what father Christians has brought. While they tear through wrapping paper they smell waffles on the griddle and freshly gathered eggs from their kitchen. Later they will enjoy Christmas dinner and fall asleep in their parent’s arms having spent the whole day with them, and not shuttled off to another portion of the house.
This excerpt is from People so it’s likely they removed the extra snark from Eden.
Same procedure as every year!
In other breaking news:
Water is wet.
The sky is blue.
Grass grows.
And. Harry and Meghan pay dust to every leftover there.
A “source” tells People ; this “source” lays awake at night dreaming up more cr-p to feed to the public who wouldn’t know a lie if it hit them in the face. Why doesn’t this “source” have a name?
I guess I can see how, if one has NO principles & NO self-worth, one could ignore the Sussexes’ STATED PRINCIPLED POSITION that there will be NO kumbaya/NO family reconciliation UNLESS & UNTIL chucky & bully ACCEPT ACCOUNTABILITY for allowing the abuse of his wife & son and himself by their staff & shitmedia ghouls; and APOLOGIZE to his wife for the shit they put her thru; and instead, believe that chucky wd score a PR “win” by issuing an empty invitation to family dinner, as if H would feel constrained to publicly REITERATE his principled position that there will be NO KUMBAYA unless & until chucky & bully ACCEPT accountability for the abuse of the Sussexes by palace critters & shitmedia ghouls and issue an APOLOGY to his wife for their abuse of her.
Anyhooo…….now that the court has granted H the right to those emails between palace critters (with the blessing of chucky & bully) and the shitmedia, (including emails from betty declaring her support for the Sussexes) for an indication of the extent of chucky & bully’s diabolical wishes for the Sussex family, we can at least look forward to the END of this boring annual fake “no christmas invitation” story once and for all.
I bet the Sussexes will have a beautiful Christmas in montecito.
@Jais, it makes me happy to think of it!
Charles cannot invite Harry, Meghan, Archie, and Lili without addressing the issue of security. Providing security would inevitably raise questions about why it was removed in the first place, while an invitation without security would understandably be rejected. If Charles is being true to himself, that should be respected. He does not care for Harry’s family, and that is okay. It’s good that Harry and Meghan are clear on the extent of this sentiment.
What is perplexing is the need to constantly explain or justify these actions to those who do not have anyone’s best interests at heart, using the situation to manipulate narratives
The royal family has a job to do, for which they are paid approximately 400 million pounds per year. They need to focus on giving the country a return on this investment. Devon has more than twice the national average for drug-related deaths each year.
focus on that
So if I had a choice between magical Montecito. Or a dreary castle that you automatically have to abide by their kooky royal protocols once they step foot in England. And you know they would make Meghan do the curtsies and what not to Kate. Which would be awful. I am a yank so I don’t know how exactly any of it works.
I mean, is this even a question? Cally all the way. Life is so short, be happy and surrounded in the light and love with people you want around you.
LMAO
They can’t “make” Meghan do anything without her consent. And she only curtsied to betty, Phillip & chucky bcos H told her it was OK to go ahead and do it. But he expressly told her NOT to curtsy to cowmilla and of course M never curtsied to bully or kitty.
So now that she will never again be under the control of that cult there’s no way in hell she’ll curtsy to anyone of them, including chucky.
PS: there’s every likelihood tht kitty will NOT be bully’s queen consort when chucky kicks the bucket. Even derangers hv stopped salivating at the thought of M curtsying to kitty bcos theyve seen the writing on the wall. I guess that memo hasn’t reached every deranger as yet.
See, I would love a holiday in a drafty ancient castle…probably haunted…with my dearest and nearest on a paranormal hunt between opening presents. (I’d also make sure to wander the halls in the middle of the night in a white nightgown, clutching a candle, just to make the fantasy complete lol)
But no way in HELL do I want any of those people there. THEY’RE what would made the idea of a holiday there abhorrent.
So give me the location. Do what you want with that ‘family’ lol.
oh man, the royal rota should switch it up, to spice things up, something like “The Windsors have not received an invitation to Montecito”🤣
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Lovely
At the mention of the “Sussexes should give up everything they have built in America ” and return to the UK story, it made me think aren’t these the same rota rats and crazy derangers that worked themselves into a state of near brain aneurism over the thought of H&M having any form of taxpayer funding? So how would they live if God forbid they were stupid enough to return?. I guess that would be the fodder to feed the continued bullying and abuse.
Thankfully, it ain’t never gonna happen!!
Poor Sussexes! They must be so disappointed to be “snubbed” yet again by the stale, leftover saltines. Whatever will they do? 🙄
Oh no! How will H&M cope??
If Archie and Lili were there, they would be segrated from the family for the meals because the kids don’t get to eat with the grown-ups. Meghan wouldn’t be allowing that bc you can bet she and Harry eat with the kids en famille. Anyway by now they will have created their own Christmas rituals and she wouldn’t want to upheave the kids by having to do something completely different. Plus the press would be crawling all over to try and get a glimpse of the kids, and H&M are very clear about protecting them. Let WanK feed their kids to the press… I wonder if there will be a repeat of whatever went on last year at Sandringham? Ambulances at midnight anyone?
It was nice to hear Meghan talk about establishing Sussex family traditions and her joyful anticipation of watching her children experience Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, full of fun and frivolity, and loving family and friends- free of Windsor drama and deadly formality. I imagine Christmas would have been so stressful for married-in royals. Hope the nannies arranged fun times in the nursery- or perhaps some of them just had two Christmases- one before or after the “royal” one.
Now this is interesting, ‘… though both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace (where the Prince and Princess of Wales’ office is located) declined to comment on the Christmas guest list.’ So they’ll brief/leak to the rota rats but not answer a direct question from People Magazine? Huh.
My, my… that is a fascinating nugget isn’t it…?
The rest of this family should grow the guts to decline Chuckles’ bitter gloom Christmas as well. Waleses, Yorks, Tindalls, Phillipses, and whatever Anne calls herself, just skip the church walk and let C&C “shine” by themselves.
I’m surprised that they’re not writing that only Harry is invited, without Meghan or the children. They love to imply that only Harry would ever be welcome back.
The last time the Sussexes spent Xmas with the royals was in 2018-since 2019 until present day in Canada in 2019 and California 2020-2023-it has been 5 years since breaking bread with the royals-to keep beating a dead horse shows some form of retardation or a very loose screw upstairs-constant repetition shows slow thinking skills-they have put this in the press everyyear for the past 5 years-everybody has gotten the message that they are not invited-the world is not stupid or brain dead-wish all people a merry Xmas and hope everyone is safe and well-something is very strange with constant repetition of stories everybody who has brain have saw already-give everybody a break for the holidays and write about something else that does not involve the royal family or the Sussex family.
We need to stop going along with these RF “snubbing” propaganda business regarding Harry and his family. H&M have bounced out of spending any Christmases with the Windsors long times ago; as ppl recalls, they’ve been invited by QE2 as an engaged couple and as newly weds (2017 and 2018) – that was it. Thereafter, even when QE2 was still alive, they didn’t attend 4 times (2019 -2022). And now they are preparing for their 6th Christmas out of the royal cult with their children/as a family. That is their norm, not Christmas at that damp, boring Sandringham estate.