{"id":134433,"date":"2023-11-25T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134433"},"modified":"2023-11-25T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:18:11","slug":"royal-experts-warn-against-harry-and-meghan-visiting-sandringham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/royal-experts-warn-against-harry-and-meghan-visiting-sandringham\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal experts warn against Harry and Meghan visiting Sandringham"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Harry and Meghan&#8217;s approach to Sandringham Christmas invitation is like a &#8216;school disco&#8217;, expert tells PALACE CONFIDENTIAL &#8211; as he suggests the Sussexes should make direct contact with the King<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Duke and Duchess of Sussex were branded &#8216;pathetic&#8217; on Palace Confidential<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Harry and Meghan &#8216;would accept offer to spend Christmas with the royal family at Sandringham&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s approach to Christmas invitations at Sandringham this year has been compared to an awkward &#8216;school disco&#8217; encounter by a royal expert.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail&#8217;s Diary Editor Richard Eden added the couple&#8217;s presence around the Christmas table may make matters worse as &#8216;trust is a very big issue&#8217; and warned that &#8216;all the tensions will be on show for the photographers&#8217; if they attend.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on this week&#8217;s Palace Confidential, the Mail&#8217;s Diary Editor Richard Eden hit out at the duo following claims that the couple would\u00a0would &#8216;not decline&#8217; an offer to join His Majesty for the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This reminds me of the school disco, where if you&#8217;re not brave enough to ask a girl to a dance you say, &#8220;oh my mate fancies you&#8221; or whatever,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re not hearing directly from Harry and Meghan, we&#8217;re hearing from friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78173475-12785269-Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_Markle_have_been_branded_pathetic_follow-m-46_1700773689477.jpg\" height=\"1083\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been branded &#8216;pathetic&#8217; following earlier reports by &#8216;friends of the Sussexes&#8217; that the pair would &#8216;readily accept&#8217; an invitation to Christmas at Sandrigham should one come. The couple pictured in September<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So the story in the Sunday Times was that their friends are putting it out that they really would quite like to be invited to Sandringham at Christmas. I mean, come on, this is no way to operate, is it?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8216;Perhaps they could invite the King to California or something, but&#8230; we&#8217;re getting this regular briefing now of what they&#8217;re saying their friends are saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because they&#8217;ve got these&#8230; Hollywood agents.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The experts suggested a better way of going about Christmas invitations was for the Sussexes to make direct contact with other members of the Royal Family and say: &#8216;It would be lovely to see you this Christmas.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded: &#8216;Letting it be known through friends, I mean, it really does seem pathetic.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the Daily Mail&#8217;s Royal Editor Rebecca English stressed that it may not be the right time for the couple to so publicly &#8216;force&#8217; a reconciliation with The Firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Every sounding I&#8217;ve taken&#8230; no one can tell me 100% whether they&#8217;re going to be there or not be there, but they said plans are very much in place now and they don&#8217;t seem to figure,&#8217; she told the programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But the point was made to me that they felt it would be unlikely anyone would welcome them with open arms.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She said that &#8216;trust is still a very big issue&#8217; because &#8216;so much water has gone under the bridge over recent years&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78173477-12785269-Speaking_on_this_week_s_Palace_Confidential_the_Mail_s_Diary_Edi-a-56_1700773995537.jpg\" height=\"633\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on this week&#8217;s Palace Confidential, the Mail&#8217;s Diary Editor Richard Eden (pictured) hit out at the duo following claims that the couple would would &#8216;not decline&#8217; an offer to join His Majesty for the festive season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78175059-12785269-However_the_Daily_Mail_s_Royal_Editor_Rebecca_English_pictured_s-a-57_1700774001563.jpg\" height=\"687\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>However, the Daily Mail&#8217;s Royal Editor Rebecca English (pictured) stressed that it may not be the right time for the couple to so publicly &#8216;force&#8217; a reconciliation with The Firm<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People have repeatedly made the point to me &#8211; it&#8217;s not that the King doesn&#8217;t want to build bridges with his son. He does at some point,&#8217; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But they feel&#8230; moves need to be made behind the scenes. And trying to involve them in a big public event like Christmas at Sandringham will just seem a little bit forced.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained that &#8216;all the tensions will be on show for the photographers as they walk down to the church on Christmas morning&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It just doesn&#8217;t seem to be the right event,&#8217; she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78175065-12785269-image-a-41_1700773580351.jpg\" height=\"475\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained that &#8216;all the tensions will be on show for the photographers as they walk down to the church on Christmas morning&#8217;. The family pictured at Sandringham in 2018\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/09\/78175097-12785269-Sources_also_told_The_Times_that_the_conversation_could_be_a_tur-a-1_1700816424175.jpg\" height=\"996\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sources also told The Times that the conversation could be a &#8216;turning point&#8217; in the difficult relationship between the Sussexes and the King. Harry, Meghan and the late Prince Philip at Sandringham in 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Mail on Sunday&#8217;s Royal Correspondent Natasha Livingstone added that fuelling all the more tensions to the rift is how rarely the King gets to see Harry and Meghan&#8217;s children, Archie and Lilibet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think the fact that he&#8217;s seeing more of the grandchildren of the Prince and Princess of Wales is very much related to this,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I mean, having such a painful family estrangement &#8211; he&#8217;s not seen Archie and Lilibet in a long time, it&#8217;s got to be linked.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the King&#8217;s new routine is to go to Windsor on Friday evenings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s\u00a0 just down the road from the Prince and Princess of Wales,&#8217; Natasha added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And he can spend more time with his grandchildren which is something he&#8217;s really keen to do and obviously is well received all round.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the episode, Richard also remarked on what he felt was the Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s &#8216;desperation to be on camera&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78175115-12785269-image-a-43_1700773638790.jpg\" height=\"949\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Richard also commented on an &#8216;undignified&#8217; moment Meghan was &#8216;shoved along&#8217; on the red carpet at a Variety event she had attended in Los Angeles earlier this month<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78175117-12785269-image-m-50_1700773753433.jpg\" height=\"976\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Queen Camilla and King Charles III pictured during a state banquet for the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/21\/78175121-12785269-image-m-51_1700773765436.jpg\" height=\"563\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The expert stressed that had Meghan and Harry stuck with The Firm, they would have been involved in the pomp and pageantry of this week&#8217;s glitzy state visit from the President and First Lady of South Korea &#8211; which saw VIPs like iconic K-Pop group Blackpink visiting Buckingham Palace<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She&#8217;s attending lots of events, it&#8217;s usually concerts performed by other people&#8230; or sporting events,&#8217; he said. &#8216;It&#8217;s not really things that she&#8217;s doing&#8230; it&#8217;s quite odd.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The expert stressed that had Meghan and Harry stuck with The Firm, they would have been involved in the pomp and pageantry of this week&#8217;s glitzy state visit from the President and First Lady of South Korea &#8211; which saw VIPs like iconic K-Pop group Blackpink visiting Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve seen the sort of full splendour of the monarchy with the state visit &#8211; they really plough it on, and Catherine&#8217;s been looking magnificent,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And if Harry and Meghan had stayed, they would&#8217;ve been an integral part of that. They would&#8217;ve been waiting for the president of Korea with William and Catherine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sophie wouldn&#8217;t have done that, that would&#8217;ve been Harry and Meghan as we saw in the past.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Richard also commented on an &#8216;undignified&#8217; moment Meghan was &#8216;shoved along&#8217; on the red carpet at a Variety event she had attended in Los Angeles earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Normally these big names only turn up if they&#8217;re going to be given an award,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was nothing there for her particularly. But she was just sort of another celebrity on the red carpet.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12785269\/Harry-Meghans-approach-Sandringham-Christmas-invitation-like-school-disco-expert-tells-PALACE-CONFIDENTIAL-suggests-Sussexes-make-direct-contact-King.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry and Meghan&#8217;s approach to Sandringham Christmas invitation is like a &#8216;school disco&#8217;, expert tells PALACE CONFIDENTIAL &#8211; as he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Royal experts warn against Harry and Meghan visiting Sandringham - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/royal-experts-warn-against-harry-and-meghan-visiting-sandringham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Royal experts warn against Harry and Meghan visiting Sandringham - bluemull\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harry and Meghan&#8217;s approach to Sandringham Christmas invitation is like a &#8216;school disco&#8217;, expert tells PALACE CONFIDENTIAL &#8211; 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