Prince Harry won’t keep at Buckingham Palace when he visits London this week on a visit he initially deliberate to make along with his spouse Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their two children.
Harry is scheduled to attend his first engagement in London on Tuesday for a visit centered round a number of charities with which he’s concerned, together with the Invictus Video games.
It isn’t recognized the place Harry, the youthful son of King Charles III, will keep throughout his time in London, the place he grew up and lived for a lot of his life.
Britain’s Prince Harry in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 23, 2026 and Britain’s King Charles III in Entrance Royal, Va., April 30, 2026.
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ABC Information understands that a proposal to remain at Buckingham Palace in London was made to Harry, however that Harry’s crew formally declined the supply on Saturday morning.
Later that very same day, Harry’s crew reversed course and accepted the supply, nevertheless it was too late for the Royal Family to just accept such a request, a royal supply informed ABC Information.
A spokesperson for Harry mentioned in an announcement Monday that the withdrawal of lodging is “disappointing,” including that it’s “unclear why, having formally accepted the lodging supply, it has now been withdrawn on the final second.”
In line with Harry’s spokesperson, the palace cited as the rationale for the withdrawal of lodging the truth that Harry’s first engagement on Tuesday additionally falls, by likelihood, on the identical day a ruling is predicted in a case he and different celebrities, together with Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley, introduced in opposition to the publishers of the Every day Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Buckingham Palace has not commented on Harry’s upcoming journey or his lodging.
Along with confusion over the place he’ll keep, there has additionally been uncertainty over who might be becoming a member of Harry on his journey to the U.Ok., amid safety considerations.
ABC Information discovered over the weekend that Harry would journey solo to London, with out Meghan and their two kids, 5-year-old Lilibet and 7-year-old Archie, attributable to considerations about acceptable safety for the household.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend the seventy fifth NBA All-Star Sport, February 15, 2026 in Inglewood, California.
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The Sussexes haven’t but determined whether or not Meghan and their kids will be part of Harry in Birmingham, England, the place he has engagements scheduled on July 9 and 10, ABC Information understands.
The Sussexes had introduced as lately as final week that they’d journey to the U.Ok. as a household of 4 for a five-day go to, from July 7-11.
The go to was to have been the California-based household’s first publicly recognized journey to the U.Ok. since June 2022, when the household attended Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Harry’s grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
In Might 2025, Harry lost an appeal difficult the British authorities’s resolution to scale back his publicly funded safety after he and Meghan stepped again from their royal duties in 2020 and moved to California.
Since shifting to California, the Sussexes have relied on a privately funded safety crew.
It stays unknown whether or not Harry or his household, ought to they be part of him, will meet with Charles or different members of the royal household throughout this week’s journey.
Archie and Lilibet will not be recognized to have seen their grandfather, Charles, in-person since their 2022 go to to the U.Ok.
