Just before attending the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle secretly visited Elizabeth II. This Monday, April 18, the duke gave some snippets of his conversation with the queen in the English press. According to him, “it was great to see her.”
Currently in The Hague, Netherlands, to attend the Invictus Games, which are held from 16 to 22 April, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took advantage of their passage through Europe to make a surprise visit to Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles on Thursday, April 14. If Daily Mail sources are to be believed, the meeting was “very cordial” and “incredibly warm and good-humored.” Interviewed by the press after this lightning passage to Windsor Castle, Prince Harry gave some details of his discussion with his grandmother.
“She had a lot of messages for Team UK, which I’ve already passed on to most of them,” the Duke of Sussex told the BBC on Monday, April 18, as reported by Page Six. “So it was great to see her. I’m sure she would have loved to be there if she could,” he added. Prince Charles’ son, who apparently snubbed his brother William and sister-in-law Kate when he came to England, went on to explain that the conversation with Her Majesty focused on her trip to the Netherlands and the Invictus Games.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle soon back in the UK with their children?
As a reminder, this interview between Harry and the Queen is one of their first face-to-face since he and his wife Meghan Markle officially stepped down from royal duties in February 2021. But a promise they made to Elizabeth II may suggest they plan to return before long. Indeed, when they were at Windsor Castle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex assured her that she could kiss her great-grandchildren Archie and Lilibet “in the near future.” A way to make it clear that they could again tread the English soil in the coming months, in the company of their two toddlers, especially during the much anticipated celebrations of the platinum jubilee of the monarch next June. This announcement must have certainly delighted Her Majesty, who has not even met the little Lilibet, aged 11 months, and who has very rarely spent time with Archie, 2 years old. What to consider a possible reconciliation between the Sussexes and the royal family? Nothing is less sure.
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