Meghan Markle will not be seen soon in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that her presence was somehow expected on the occasion of the special celebration of the Invictus Games, founded by her husband, Prince Henry; This year they celebrate their tenth anniversary.
The Duchess of Sussex will support her husband from the United States on his trip to his native country for the special service organized in London on May 8, which the prince will finally attend alone. A visit for which she tried to organize everything in terms of security for the attendance of her entire family, a moment that ultimately will not happen.
Prince Harry will thus attend the anniversary celebration of the Invictus Games, which he founded in 2014 with the collaboration of his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, to honor active members and wounded veterans of the armed forces.
The prince is expected to attend a special “thanksgiving” service at St. Paul’s Cathedral next Wednesday, May 8; an event that has already been announced on the foundation’s social networks and that will feature the presence of other well-known faces and active collaborators with the foundation, such as actor Damian Lewis (Homeland).
While Prince Harry is in the United Kingdom, Meghan Markle will remain in her home in California (USA) with the couple’s two children, Archie (4) and Lilibet (2); until her return, at which time she will go with him to Nigeria on a trip scheduled for the end of May.
The Duchess of Sussex has always been very involved in the Invictus since her relationship with Prince Harry began; She was also very present during the celebration of this edition. A few weeks ago, they celebrated Valentine’s Day at an Invictus tournament in Canada.
Fears for the safety of his wife and two young children have been top of Prince Harry’s agenda in recent months. Charles III’s own son has only returned to his native country on a few occasions, the last being a visit to his father at the time it became public that the sovereign had been diagnosed with cancer.
The couple has tried to stay away from all the news involving the British royal family, from which they chose to retire as active members in 2020. However, rejecting their royal duties also meant rejecting another privilege: the immediate right to protection. police when in the UK.
A decision made by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) in February 2020, which agreed that the son of King Charles III or his family would not receive publicly funded protection when in the United Kingdom.
Prince Henry thus began a legal conflict against the British Government after being announced that he would not receive, as a civil citizen and not a member of the Royal House, the “same degree” of personal protection security in the United Kingdom. For this reason, neither his wife nor his children are traveling with him on this occasion, as has already happened on previous “express” trips by the current monarch’s son.
