Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'snubbed' late Queen in her final days
dailyrecord.co.ukPrince Harry and Meghan Markle have been slammed for what seemed to be a stark "snub" to the late Queen Elizabeth II before her passing in 2022 according to a royal commentator.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly turned down two personal invitations from Her Majesty in 2019: one to join her during her summer holiday at Balmoral with their then-infant son Archie and another to spend Christmas at Sandringham.
Instead, Harry and Meghan opted to travel to Canada for six weeks. Reflecting on these decisions, royal expert Robert Lacey said: "To compound it, as the Christmas holidays approached Harry and Meghan snubbed the Queen for a second time."They had not gone to stay at Balmoral with her in the summer, and they decided that they couldn't join her at Sandringham for the New Year break either."Harry and Meghan, who are also parents to three-year-old Lilibet stepped back from their senior working royals in 2020 and relocated to the US to start a new life outside of the monarchy, the Express reports.In her final days, the former royal couple stirred up controversy in their infamous Oprah Winfrey interview in March 2021 where they claimed an unnamed member of the Firm had made a racist remark about the colour of Prince Archie's skin before he was born.When Her Majesty drew her last breath at her beloved Balmoral residence in Scotland on September 8 2022 neither Harry nor Meghan were present despite being in the UK at the time of her death.
According to reports, the duke had been on his way to the estate but the duchess did not receive an invite to the private family gathering.Just weeks after the late Queen's passing, the Sussexes wreaked more havoc on the monarchy with the release of their controversial Netflix
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