Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Didn’t Sit With Prince William and Duchess Kate at Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee Service

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No royal reunion? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle didn’t appear to reconnect with Prince William and Duchess Kate at Queen Elizabeth II‘s Service of Thanksgiving during her Platinum Jubilee.Harry, 37, Meghan, 40, arrived at St.

Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, June 3, for their first official appearance during the celebrations. The couple were previously photographed attending the Trooping the Colour on Thursday, June 2, but did not watch from the Buckingham Palace balcony alongside William, 39, and Kate, 40.The Cambridge couple didn’t join the Archewell cofounders inside the chapel on Friday. “Senior members of the royal family were seated in the front row and non-senior members in the second row,” the insider explains.According to the source, it was the palace’s decision “to keep them on opposite sides of [the] cathedral to avoid any unwanted attention” after the two couples were “scrutinized” during the 2020 Commonwealth Day Service — Harry and Meghan’s final official engagement as senior working royals.The Sussexes returned to the U.K.

for the first time as a family of four — alongside son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 11 months — since their final engagement as senior royals in March 2020.

Harry and the Suits alum relocated to California following their step back, with the former military pilot returning to London solo in April 2021 for grandfather Prince Philip‘s funeral and in July 2021 for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late Princess Diana.Weeks before attending the Jubilee, Meghan joined her husband at Windsor Castle in April for a surprise visit with the queen, 96, on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands.