Donald Trump, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were pulled into the same White House story last week when King Charles, 77, and Queen Camilla, 78, visited Washington, but the claim that the Sussexes were effectively shut out rests on royal commentators' accounts rather than any confirmed public ban.
According to the Mirror, the more immediate explanation was political and personal, with one royal expert arguing that President Donald Trump has made clear he is no admirer of Harry or Meghan.
Donald Trump didn’t hold back from letting King Charles III know how he feels about Prince Harry. During His Majesty and Queen Camilla‘s visit to the White House, the U.S. president allegedly made a rude remark about the Duke of Sussex, who relocated...https://t.co/4ppUWJgN6q
The visit presented what looked, from a distance at least, like a possible opening for Prince Harry to see his father while the King was in the United States. Former royal editor Duncan Larcombe told the source there was 'no hope' of a meeting because trust between the King and the Sussexes has fallen so low that any private contact is now seen as a risk.
Larcombe's argument was blunt. 'Charles is in an impossible position right now,' he said, claiming both the King and Prince William fear renewed contact could lead to more private details being made public.
He went further, saying, 'If Charles rang Harry and said, 'I'm coming to the US, I'd love to see you,' the danger is Harry would go public with it.'
That gets to the heart of the current impasse. The rupture is no longer framed simply as a family quarrel, or even a row over old slights. In this telling, it has become a question of whether the monarch can speak to his younger son without worrying that the conversation may one day reappear in public.
Harry, 41, lives in California with Meghan, 44, and their children Archie, seven, and Lilibet, four.Relations with Charles and William, 43, have remained frozen since the couple's 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they alleged racism within the royal family and said Meghan had not been supported.
Matters worsened again after Harry's 2023 memoir,Spare, in which he described bitter disputes and accused William of physically attacking him.
The history explains why even a short family meeting now appears freighted with risk. There is no confirmed statement from Buckingham Palace, the Sussexes or the White House saying Harry and Meghan were formally barred from any event.
Source: International Business Times UK
