Prince Harry dealt devastating second snub by Charles - after insisting he's too busy to meet during UK visit
08.05.2024 - 10:31
/ ok.co.uk
Prince Harry has been dealt a second snub by King Charles, after his father insisted he was too busy to meet with him during his UK visit. In a second blow, just hours later, the King announced a ceremony to celebrate his son William taking charge of Harry’s former helicopter regiment next week.
It was officially confirmed that William would take charge in August 2023. Harry, 38, arrived in the UK from California on Tuesday, May 7, but his spokesman confirmed that his dad had made him aware that he did not have time to meet up.
The Prince's representative said: “It unfortunately will not be possible due to His Majesty’s full programme.” Harry arrived to take part in celebratory events marking ten years of his Invictus Games, which he founded in 2014.
Meanwhile, the King was busy welcoming Fiji’s Prime Minister to Buckingham Palace. Just hours later, the King confirmed that next Monday he will attend a ceremony to announce William, 41, as Colonel-in-Chief of Harry’s former regiment, Army Air Corps.
The event is to take place in front of an Apache, which is the type of helicopter that Harry flew when serving in Afghanistan.
The Prince of Wales, who worked as a pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance service between 2015 and 2017, is to take to the skies in the helicopter.
The Sun newspaper claims that Harry has been keen to meet up with his dad during his three-day trip to the UK. As the Duke of Sussex touched down on British soil, Charles, 75, was seen leaving Windsor Castle in the State Bentley while reading in the back seat.
Harry, who travelled to the UK without his wife Meghan or their two children, was taken to the Honourable Artillery Company HQ in Barbican for an Invictus Games meet-up. He was all smiles after he was
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