Did the Windsor clan ban Meghan Markle from visiting the Queen at Balmoral? – Le Figaro

By Ségolène Forgar Posted 5 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago Meghan Markle in Germany at an event ahead of the Invictus Games 2023. (Düsseldorf, September 6, 2022.) Abaca According to the royal correspondent of BBC, the Duchess of Sussex was not welcome at Balmoral Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at the age of 96. Why is Meghan not with Harry at Balmoral? This is the question that the British have been asking since the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. And for good reason: after the release of the brief press release from Buckingham Palace on the sovereign’s “worrying” state of health this Thursday, September 8, it was announced that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had canceled their participation in the Well Child Awards, a charity event in London, to go to the sovereign’s bedside, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. In the afternoon, a spokesperson had confirmed the arrival of the couple. Information in particular taken up by AFP. In video, the BBC announces the death of Queen Elizabeth II To read also Operations London Bridge and Unicorn: everything that will happen in the ten days following the death of Elizabeth II Against all odds, in 5:14 p.m. (Paris time), an alert from the Press Association announced that the Duke of Sussex would finally arrive alone at Balmoral. Less than thirty minutes later, at 5:39 p.m., the English organization mentioned a last-minute “change of plan” and confirmed the absence of Meghan Markle, who remained in London. Then to add that she would join Harry in Scotland at a later date. At 5:44 p.m., journalist Omid Scobie, close to the Sussexes, published on Twitter: “A source has given an update that Prince Harry is going to Balmoral alone. Like the Duchess of Cambridge (who is in Windsor with her three children), the Duchess of Sussex is staying in England (but will not be attending tonight’s Well Child Awards). of his grandmother, Prince William jumped on a plane from Windsor without Kate Middleton, forced to stay with their three children, who had just come back to school at Lambrook School. The imbroglio around the presence or not of Meghan Markle at Balmoral, however, did not fail to challenge the press across the Channel. For the BBC’s royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, this absence is mainly linked to the tensions that remain between the 41-year-old American and the Windsor clan. “To be frank, she might not be very warmly received,” the on-air reporter said, as noted by the Daily Mail. In video, back in the UK, Harry and Meghan attend the One Summit Young WorldSussex back in UKHarry and Meghan, who now reside in Los Angeles, had been in the UK for “various engagements” in recent days. This is what allowed the emergency arrival of the youngest of King Charles III at Balmoral Castle. To read also Prince Charles becomes Charles III: a line of succession carefully regulated… up to the 5000th rank The last meeting of the Sussexes with the Queen Elizabeth II dated back to June, during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. They then took the opportunity to present their daughter Lilibet, born in the United States.