King Charles Wants Harry and Meghan to attend his Coronation

King Charles has reportedly asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to help reach a deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for them to attend his Coronation.

The King is thought to have approached Justin Welby over a potential agreement that would pave the way for the Duke and Duchess to attend despite the recent fallout from Harry’s memoir Spare.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has reportedly been asked by King Charles to negotiate a deal that would enable Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to attend his Coronation – but has met resistance from William, according to a reliable palace source.

Charles wants Justin Welby to strike an agreement with his warring sons that would allow Harry and his wife Meghan to attend the Westminster Abbey ceremony in May, senior sources close to Lambeth Palace said. It comes amid reports that Charles is mulling over doing his own TV interview ahead of the Coronation.

Speculation has been rife about whether the Sussexes would attend the high-profile event since they stepped away from Royal duties – and especially since the publication of Harry’s tell-all memoirs, Spare, which was released earlier last month, contained a number of damaging revelations about senior members of the Royal Family. Harry and Meghan stood down as working royals two years ago and the former’s book,

Sources say Harry could be offered informal assurance that he will be able to keep his titles and a high-profile seating position in the Abbey in order to tempt him to attend.

However, it is claimed that William is keen for Harry’s visit to be tightly scripted to prevent him from stealing the limelight.

A source said: “The issue of substance is whether they attend the Coronation and if they do, under what terms and conditions. William fears that unless Harry’s visit is tightly scripted, he could steal the limelight by, for example, going on a walkabout in a deprived London borough with Meghan. 

‘The family is split, and all the indications are that Harry is being advised to agree to nothing at this stage and ‘play it long’ right up to the last minute, which is making negotiations with him very difficult. ‘Harry’s camp made clear that the idea that he would just attend the Coronation and behave himself but then be stripped of his titles was a total non-starter. ‘While he might decide at some point to discard the titles of his own volition, he objects to the idea of being forcibly stripped of them. 

Mr. Welby, who will officiate at the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, was first asked to act as an intermediary between William and Harry shortly after the Queen’s death in September.

He has previously been dragged into the soap opera surrounding the Sussexes when Meghan claimed in a TV interview that he had secretly married them before their official wedding in 2018 – forcing him to clarify that the ceremony broadcast to the world was a legal marriage. 

He was also forced to pull out of the Church’s General Synod in July 2019 in order to baptise the couple’s son, Archie.