King Charles has made “a whopper of a miscalculation” by leaving his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet out of his coronation plans, an expert claims.
While their cousins Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis are reportedly set to take part in a horse-drawn procession to Buckingham Palace after the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
There is no such role on the cards, however, for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s brood.
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The Sussexes themselves are still yet to confirm whether they intend to accept their invitation with Harry being ordered by the Home Office to give 28 days’ notice before making any trips to the UK, for security reasons.
It currently looks like that decision is set to come right down to the wire.
The lack of an invitation for their two beloved children is likely to have a significant impact on Harry and Meghan’s decision.
And that’s a serious mis-step by the new King, according to royal expert Daniela Elser.
Writing for News.com.au, she says: “Charles’ failure to make any sort of provisions for his two youngest grandchildren, his only grandchildren born to a bi-racial mother, looks not only a tad vengeful but does nothing to counter Harry’s claims of royal unconscious bias”.
No matter what Harry and Meghan might have done, she adds, Archie and Lili are “completely innocent” victims of the ongoing royal controversy.
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And, Daniela says, leaving Archie and Lili out of the whole three-day event “makes something of a mockery” of the royals’ attempts to paint themselves as an inclusive, 21st-Century institution.
“How can the King bring a politically, culturally and socially fractured Britain together,” she writes, “if he doesn’t even have it in him to bring all of his grandchildren together?”
It’s been suggested that the two Sussex kids are, at the ages of three and just under two respectively, too young for a long, and for the most part quite boring state religious ceremony.
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But as another royal expert. Dr Tessa Dunlop, has pointed out – Archie will turn four on the day of the coronation.
"It’s [Archie’s] fourth birthday on the day of the Coronation,” she said on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat, and ”if you look at the footage of the 1953 Coronation, who was very prominent, albeit briefly? Prince Charles. He was four…”
She added that it would be "odd" if Archie were not to be invited to the event.
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