{"id":641641,"date":"2026-10-26T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641641\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:00:13","slug":"real-reason-harry-and-meghans-first-uk-engagement-clashed-with-king-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641641\/","title":{"rendered":"Real reason Harry and Meghan’s first UK engagement ‘clashed’ with King | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real reason why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s first official engagement \u2018clashed\u2019 with the King and Queen has been revealed.<\/p>\n

After returning to the UK in late August, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have conducted a series of public appearances around the country. However, the couple\u2019s visit to Nottingham on October 15 was most<\/a> notable for being \u2018quasi-Royal\u2019, as the pair shook hands with fans and toured charity facilities.<\/p>\n

On the same day, King Charles and Queen Camilla<\/a> were in Cardiff to attend the ceremonial opening of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. It was the first time Charles went to the event since he became King in 2022, but attention was more than 100 miles away as his son greeted fans in the Midlands.<\/p>\n

However, according to insiders, the Sussexes\u2019 office and Buckingham Palace do share schedules, but it is often not detailed enough to stop clashes, reports i News.<\/p>\n

A source close to the Sussexes added that they would be happy to work around the King\u2019s calendar, but acknowledged it could be difficult to share more information about Charles\u2019 movements.<\/p>\n

It comes after Harry told GQ in an open interview in New York that he wishes to ‘reconcile’ with his brother<\/a> and father as the family have drifted apart since he stepped away from royal duties in 2020.<\/p>\n

Harry said: \u201cThere’s sibling disagreements, there’s broken relationships between kids and their parents, kids and one parent. That continues to come up with me the whole time by people that I speak to. So I know how relatable it is. That’s probably why there’s so much fascination.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then people maybe look at us and go, “How are you going to work it out?” And then, maybe, how I see you’re going to work it out, maybe that will help me work my stuff out. And some people don’t want it to work out. I want it to work out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, with everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile. That’s the key point.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has since been reported the Sussexes are willing to apologise to the Royal household if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The real reason why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s first official engagement \u2018clashed\u2019 with the King and Queen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,11018,11061,4866,111,139,69,3578,3164,279400],"class_list":["post-641641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-reconciliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}