The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reportedly been left out of the wedding by the Duke of Westminster, Prince Harry’s lifelong friend and son Archie’s godfather. end game It makes a rumbling sound.
Hugh Grosvenor will invite the King and Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales to his wedding to Olivia Henson next summer, making it the socialite wedding of the year.
However, it is understood that the decision not to invite Prince Harry was to avoid family conflict at the wedding and the risk of “anything clouding the day”.
Prince William is said to be applying for a job as a groomsman at his wedding on June 7, and the Duke of Westminster is also Prince George’s godfather.
A friend of Prince William and Prince Harry said: Sunday Times: “We are very sorry that this has happened. Hugh is one of Prince William and Prince Harry’s few close friends and continues to maintain strong bonds and communication with both of them.”
“He wishes they could talk and work things out, but he realizes it’s unlikely that will happen by the time of the wedding. He wants the day to be special for Olivia. I didn’t want it to be too dark, I didn’t want it to be awkward.”
On Saturday night, a spokesperson for the Duke of Westminster said: “We are not in a position to comment on the guest list.”
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are not invited to this year’s social wedding
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Prince and Princess of Wales invited to Duke of Westminster’s wedding
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The Duke of Westminster became engaged to Ms Henson earlier this year.
One of Britain’s richest men, he inherited his family’s multibillion-pound fortune and fortune when his father Gerard died of a heart attack while walking in the grounds of a monastery in 2016. is.
The Grosvenor Group owns around 300 acres of land in London’s Mayfair and Belgravia districts, as well as developments in major city centres, including Liverpool’s ONE shopping centre, and the duke is part of the royal family’s inner circle.
It comes after another storm of royal racism erupted this week following the release of Omid Scobie’s second book. end game.
A Dutch translation named King Charles and Duchess Kate and copies were pulled from bookshelves in the Netherlands after it emerged that two members of the royal family had expressed “concerns” about the color of their baby Archie’s skin ahead of the birth. Ta.
end game It is claimed that the name was discussed in letters between the Duchess of Sussex and the King.
Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor is a lifelong friend of the royal family
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The claims were initially made to one senior royal official during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, but the couple said the backlash was “not important to them”. He declined to name the person allegedly behind the remarks, fearing the damage would be too great.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have yet to break their silence about the unfolding drama, but they are facing calls for action.
Appeared in this morning Mr Scobie on Thursday dismissed the names of senior royals, insisting he had never submitted a book containing their names.
he later told BBC Two. news night Amid questions of whether the move was a PR stunt aimed at boosting sales, it said a “full investigation” was underway to find out how the name came into the translation. .
The Dutch publisher initially rejected the version that included the name as a “translation error”.
However, Saskia Pieters, the translator for Scobie’s latest book, said that although the names of the two royals were omitted in the English version, she did so on her own accord in the Dutch translation. He refuted claims that he had added the names of people from the royal family.
“As a translator, I translate what is in front of me,” she said. Send email online.
“It had the names of the royal family written in black and white. I didn’t add it. I just did the job I was paid to do, and that was to translate the book from English to Dutch.”
