Prince Harry is set to make a solo trip to the UK next month as he attends court for his ongoing trial against the publishers of The Sun. His wife, Meghan Markle, will not be travelling with him, it has been reported.
The trial is set to take place at the High Court in London. Harry will appear before the court for his case against News Group Newspapers (NGN), alongside former Labour deputy leader, Lord Tom Watson.
The two are suing the publisher over alleged unlawful information-gathering and invasion of privacy. Meghan will remain at home with the couple’s children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, in California.
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It comes after a new report claimed that Meghan’s once-close relationship with King Charles is virtually non-existent. A source claims that the pair have absolutely no contact now, and that a “sticking point” in Charles’s relationship with Meghan and his youngest son Harry has been the Duke of Sussex’s decision to launch legal action against the UK Government for removing his official police security, which is taxpayer funded, The Mirror reports.
Kate Mansey wrote for The Times: “Harry’s decision to sue the King’s government in the King’s courts is the sticking point, I am told. Harry is challenging a decision by Ravec, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, which decides what security is provided for the royal family and other VIPs.
“The royal household is represented on the committee and would have had a seat at the table when the decision was made to remove Harry’s automatic right to police protection in Britain.”
According to Harry, when Meghan and Charles first met they got on well, and his father was “impressed” by Meghan when they first met.
He said: “We talked about acting and the arts generally. What a struggle it could be to make your way in such a trade, Pa said. He had a lot of questions about Meg’s career, and he looked impressed by the way she answered. Her confidence, her intelligence, I thought, caught him unawares.
“And then our time was up. Pa and Camilla had another engagement. Royal life. Heavily regimented, overscheduled, so forth. I made a note to explain all this later to Meg. We all stood. Meg leaned towards Pa. I flinched; like Willy, Pa wasn’t a hugger. Thankfully, she gave him a standard British cheek-to-cheek, which he actually seemed to enjoy. I walked Meg out of Clarence House, into those lush, fragrant gardens, feeling exultant. Well, that’s that then, I thought. Welcome to the family.”