Charles’ Brutal Rejection Shows Harry ‘Not Welcome’ in U.K., Sources Say

A week some had hoped would be an occasion for reconciliation ended up blowing Britain’s royal feud wide open, again, in dramatic and very public style.

King Charles’ refusal to meet with Prince Harry, send a minor royal to attend his Invictus event at St Paul’s Cathedral in London this week, or even issue a social media post in support of it is “a clear message that Harry is not welcome to conduct official, quasi-royal events in the U.K. that distract from the monarchy’s message and agenda,” a royal source has told The Daily Beast.

Harry cut an isolated figure this week as he arrived alone at a special church service giving thanks for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Invictus Games, the Paralympic-style event for wounded servicemen he established when still a working royal. No member of the royal family attended the service and, to rub salt in the wound, all working royals except Prince William and Kate Middleton gathered to support the king at a garden party at Buckingham Palace taking place at the same time.

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