Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have launched their 2024 vacation card on the heels of studies that the Sussexes did not obtain an invite from the royal household to hitch them at Sandringham in Norfolk for his or her annual Christmas vacation.
On Dec. 16, Harry and Markle launched their vacation card, which featured a grid of six images. The message, “On behalf of the office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Productions and Archewell Foundation, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful new year,” was printed on the underside.
Included in these six footage had been a uncommon glimpse of the couple’s youngsters, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3. Within the household photograph, Harry is seen bending all the way down to greet his daughter with a hug as Markle is seen doing the identical with Archie.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have launched their 2024 vacation card. (Archewell)
The photograph additionally consists of the household’s three canines.
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In accordance with a supply, this vacation card was meant just for public use and Harry and Markle’s family and friends acquired a separate card. This won’t be shared with the general public.
Markle and Harry aren’t the one royal members of the family not celebrating Christmas with King Charles, as Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson declined the monarch’s invitation to have a good time Christmas collectively.
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Prince Andrew won’t be attending Christmas providers with the royal household. (Steve Parsons/Getty Photographs)
The Duke and Duchess of York, and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, won’t be in attendance for morning church providers or lunch with the royal household on the Sandringham Home, Individuals reported.
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, may also not be attending the royal Christmas providers this 12 months. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis)
The information comes as Prince Andrew was revealed to just lately have contact with an alleged Chinese language spy, Sky Information reported. His workplace launched a press release on Friday, saying he had reduce ties with the Chinese language businessman on the “advice” from officers, however that the pair had by no means mentioned something of a “sensitive nature.”
In accordance with studies, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t be touring to the U.Ok. this vacation season. (Karwai Tang)
Harry and Meghan haven’t celebrated a Christmas in the UK since 2018 – the identical 12 months they had been married. (Picture by Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for W+P)
As for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they’re anticipated to spend Christmas in the USA the place they stay as soon as once more this 12 months, Individuals reported, citing a supply.
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The Sussexes haven’t spent Christmas at Sandringham with the royal household since 2018 — the identical 12 months they had been married.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are anticipated to proceed custom and have a good time Christmas at Sandringham. (Getty Photographs)
The couple left England in 2020 and finally settled in California.
They proceed to have a fraught relationship with the senior royals after Harry’s tell-all memoir “Spare,” their equally controversial 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and their Netflix sequence “Harry & Meghan,” which was extremely essential of the royal household as an establishment.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton, in addition to their youngsters, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, are anticipated to move to Sandringham earlier than Christmas and stay there till New 12 months’s.
Kate Middleton seemed pleased and wholesome on the fourth annual Collectively at Christmas caroling service. (Getty Photographs)
The Princess of Wales held her first Collectively at Christmas carol service final 12 months earlier than she was identified with most cancers earlier this 12 months.
Christmas Day at Church of St. Mary Magdalene on the property final 12 months was the princess’ final public engagement for months earlier than she revealed her analysis.
In September, she introduced she had completed her spherical of preventative chemotherapy.
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Charles was additionally identified with an undisclosed sort of most cancers this 12 months and remains to be present process remedy.
King Charles III had his personal well being issues this 12 months. (Getty Photographs)
The royal household’s sojourn to Sandringham is a long-held custom through which the late Queen Elizabeth would normally retreat to the property from December by way of February — when her father, King George VI, died.
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“It will be like any other Christmas, focused on the young family,” Grant Harrold, former private butler to Charles, advised the New York Submit in November of the royal household’s deliberate vacation this 12 months. “They are very family-orientated, like the late queen, so that will be their focus.”
Fox Information Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
