King Charles will share his coronation date with his grandson's birthday. Archie, the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, turns four on Saturday, May 6, next year, when the King will be crowned amid great pageantry in Westminster Abbey.
It has not yet been confirmed who will attend the ceremony and whether or not Harry and Meghan will be among those invited, or whether they will be able to attend since it will be their eldest child's birthday. More than 2,000 people are set to fill the Abbey to see both Charles and Harry's stepmother, the Queen Consort, being crowned.
Harry has faced difficult times in his relationship with his father, telling US talk show host Oprah Winfrey he felt "really let down" by Charles, who had stopped taking his calls in the run up to the Megxit crisis, and how there was a "lot of hurt". The duke later lambasted Charles's skills as father, criticising him for expecting his sons to endure the pressures of royal life, and suggesting his parenting left him with "genetic pain and suffering".
