Prince Harry arrived in London on Friday on a commercial flight ahead of his father King Charles III’s coronation, Pvnew can /confirm/i.
The grand royal event, in which Charles and his wife, Camilla, will officially be crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms, is scheduled to take place on Saturday at Westminster Abbey.
Although Harry, 38, will be in attendance, Buckingham Palace confirmed last month that his wife, Meghan Markle, will not be joining him.
Instead, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, will remain in California with the couple’s two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, as the former is turning 4 on the same day as the coronation.
A source recently told Pvnew that Harry will return to Los Angeles two hours after his father’s event in order to make it on time for his son’s festivities.
“Harry’s going to make every effort to get back in time for Archie’s birthday,” an insider told us, noting that the father of two will be flying commercial, not private, as he did on his way to London.
Perhaps Harry’s preferred mode of aerial transportation has changed since he and Markle received major backlash for taking a private jet in September 2021 after speaking at Global Citizen Live — an event in New York City that advocated for climate change action.
“They lecture us on our carbon footprint while taking private jets to polo matches,” one critic tweeted at the time. “Hypocrites don’t unite people.”
While Harry is in the UK, we’re told, he will stay at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, England.
A source confirmed to Pvnew in March that Charles, 74, had evicted his younger son and daughter-in-law from the estate in order to gift it to his disgraced brother Prince Andrew.
Reps for the duke and duchess then confirmed to us that it had been “requested” that they “vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage.”
We also learned at the time that the eviction process began just one day after Harry’s bombshell memoir, “Spare” — in which he spilled secrets about the royal family such as his physical fight with his brother, Prince William — was released.
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A royal expert told Pvnew in March that Harry and Markle, who quit their royal duties in 2020, had “provoked” the ouster.
“Harry and Meghan provoked him [Charles] with Harry’s disgraceful book and the interviews he gave,” writer Tom Bower said.
“Harry wanted the royal family to come on bended knee begging for forgiveness, and he’s completely crossed the spectrum. He’s in the mad wilderness of deranged victimhood.”
Despite the duke getting kicked out of the royal home, it seems that property is where he will stay on his visits across the pond.
In April, Harry stayed at Frogmore Cottage while on another trip to England.
