Prince Harry reportedly angered a senior Royal to the point that he refused to see him following the Megxit announcement in 2020. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared the shock news that they wanted to step away from royal duties on January 8, 2020, with Harry then summoned back to the UK days later to discuss the situation in a meeting dubbed the “Sandringham Summit”.
Attending without his wife Meghan Markle, who remained in Canada where they had been staying for a few weeks with their young son, Harry attended the crisis talks with senior members of the Royal Family, which included King Charles, Prince William and the late Queen Elizabeth II. Although the late Queen was in attendance, it has been reported that Prince Philip was so angered that he didn’t attend and refused to see Harry.
According to a Channel 5 documentary titled ‘Megxit: Inside the Sandringham Summit’, royal author Andrew Morton claimed: “Prince Philip is someone who doesn’t take fools gladly, and he was horrified that they had come to a situation where the Royal Family were deciding whether to split up or not.”
Also speaking about the meeting, royal expert Emily Andrews, said: “Philip was so angry that he refused to even be there. I was told that he just couldn’t bring himself to see his grandson, he thought it was a huge dereliction of duty.”
Philip is known to have had a close relationship with both Prince Harry and Prince William – especially since the death of the late Princess Diana, the Mirror reports.
Discussing their bond, author Tina Brown: “A member of the Balmoral staff [where the boys were when they received the news Diana had died] noted that Prince Philip, who had effectively lost his own mother at the age of 10 when she was committed for three years to an asylum in Switzerland.”
She added that Philip “was brilliantly effective with his grandsons, offering them gruff tenderness and outdoor activities like stalking and hiking to tire them out”.
Since their move to the US in 2020, Harry and Meghan now reside in California with their children, Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four.
The family lived within a gated community in the heart of Montecito.
