King Charles reportedly told Prince Harry Meghan Markle he was “not welcome” on Balmoral.

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King Charles III told his son Prince Harry that Meghan Markle was not “welcome” to join the rest of the royal family at Balmoral Sun has called. If true, the report would solve the mystery of why Meghan was announced as going to Balmoral with Harry on Thursday, and then just as suddenly revealed she wasn’t going.

A source said Sun: “Charles told Harry that it was not right or appropriate for Meghan to be at Balmoral at such a sad time. He was advised that Kate would not be leaving and that the numbers really should be limited to immediate family. Charles made it very, very clear that Meghan would not be welcome.”

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Kate Middleton, William’s wife, stayed behind in England to look after their three young children, who were attending a new school that day.

Harry ended up making the trip alone, though that Sun claims there was plenty of room on the plane taking Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie north – and with Harry at his UK base of Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, any of the royals living nearby would have room had shared a car with him to the airport. The sun says Harry was “denied” a seat on the plane.

Thus, Queen Elizabeth’s death was announced at Balmoral while Harry was still airborne on a private jet, while the rest of the royals were all at Balmoral by then. Harry eventually arrived at the former monarch’s Scottish home an hour and a half after the announcement and left Balmoral early Friday morning to catch a commercial flight from Aberdeen – the first British Airways flight of the day – back to London.

A passenger said The Sun: “He hardly moved for the whole hour-long flight and was obviously thinking about his beloved grandmother. It was so sad to see him without the other royals to comfort him. I really hope that the queen’s death will help them heal their cracks.”

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Ultimately, it is believed that only Charles and Princess Anne were with the Queen when she died – Charles has a Scottish home nearby and Anne was staying in Balmoral. Anne, Andrew, Edward and Sophie stayed in Balmoral on Friday while Charles, William and Harry returned to England.

Charles’ blunt demand that Meghan stay away stands in stark contrast to the headline-grabbing olive branch he offered the couple in his first televised address as king on Friday afternoon.

“I would also like to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives abroad,” Charles said in the address from Buckingham Palace. But William and Harry remain estranged and the family still mistrust Harry and Meghan given all they have said and claimed in previous interviews about their treatment within the royal family. The royals are also nervous about what other bombshells Harry might drop in his upcoming memoir.

As a royal insider told him telegraph: “It’s pretty hard to spend too much time with someone you know is about to publish a full-scale book about you. I think people appreciate that the Queen was Harry’s beloved grandmother, but she was the executive director of the institution, which they spoke out against.”

A source also told the newspaper: “I think the general reaction to Harry and Meghan’s behavior was, to be honest, disbelief. Even if you only look at the past few weeks, the Duchess has repeatedly made clear remarks in interviews. They seem pretty detached from reality and live in some kind of LA bubble. It is really incredible.”

Now there are questions about what roles Harry and Meghan will play at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and how prominent those roles will be.

Last night, William and Harry, the Sun said they were back at their neighboring cottages in Windsor, but the newspaper reported that “there has been little, if any, communication between them”.

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