As plans for the King's Coronation continue, speculation about who will and who will not attend, along with what roles they will be tasked with, continue to circulate. One report indicates that Camilla's grandchildren are expected to attend the Coronation of their grandmother and step-Grandfather. However, there are also claims that Archie and Lilibet have not been invited.
The Queen Consort's son, Tom Parker Bowles, has two children, 15 and 13, while her daughter, Laura Lopes, has 13-year-old twins. The King's wife was hoping, it is understood, that they would carry the canopy that is placed over her as she is anointed.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been invited, and are expected at Westminster Abbey on May 6. However, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children are understood to not be attending with palace officials considering their children - Archie, three, and one-year-old Lilibet - too young to attend the ceremony.
The reports, covered by the Mirror, also indicated that the Prince and Princess of Wales are still “pondering” whether to take lively Prince Louis, who turns five next month.
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A Buckingham Palace source told The Sunday Times that it would be 'wholly improper' for discussions over roles for the Queen Consort's grandchildren but not her husband's. Asked if Archie and Lilibet were invited, one royal source simply noted that they were "very young".
Although Louis' attendance is in doubt, Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, who turns eight just days before the coronation, are expected to attend the ceremony crowning King Charles III.
Harry and Meghan are yet to confirm if they'll attend the event and are understood to be weighing up the logistics. If they do attend, the Sussexes will not be invited to take part in the official balcony appearance, it has been claimed.
A friend of the family told MailOnline : "They will be given the cold shoulder by very many relatives. One said to me, "I hope they'll be seated in Iceland. Many of the family just want nothing more to do with them. If they have to see them at the Coronation then so be it, but they do not want to socialise with them."
Harry and Meghan stepped back from official royal duties in early 2020. They are no longer working royals and have, since leaving the Royal Family and heading for the US, made a series of bombshell claims about royal life through various interviews, a Netflix docu-series and book deepening the family rift. If they do attend the Coronation, they were expected to stay at Frogmore Cottage - a residence that King Charles is understood to have offered to other members of the Royal Family.
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