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Will Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Attend King Charles' Coronation?
The countdown is connected for King Charles III and Queen Camilla's coronation.
With a month to spell earlier the crowning ceremony, Buckingham Palace has unveiled the invitation to the highly-anticipated royal lawsuit connected May 6. As seen successful imagery released connected April 4, the invite's artwork—which volition beryllium printed connected recycled paper and sent retired to 2,000 guests—features golden foil detailing and a nature motif hand-painted successful watercolor.
"The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla," the card reads. "By bid of the King the Earl Marshal is directed to invitation [guest] to beryllium contiguous astatine the Abbey Church of Westminster connected the 6th time of May 2023."
Designed by illustrator Andrew Jamieson, the letter contains subtle nods to Charles and the remainder of the royal family. As the Palace notes connected its website, plants specified arsenic bluebells, cornflowers, rosemary and chaotic strawberries each look successful groupings of 3 to signify the 74-year-old becoming the 3rd monarch of his name.
The paper is besides decorated with lily of the valley—a angiosperm featured successful the late Queen Elizabeth II's coronation bouquet back in 1953 and was said to beryllium 1 of her favorites—and the overgarment of arms for Charles and Camilla, 75. Meanwhile, a wren and a robin beryllium atop the missive C, a motion to the couple's shared initial.
In summation to the invite, the Palace also released a representation of Charles and Camilla taken by Hugo Burnand successful grant of the upcoming coronation, arsenic good arsenic details astir the courtiers representing the brace astatine the ceremony.
Handout/Buckingham Palace via Getty Images
Prince William and Kate Middleton's oldest child, Prince George, volition beryllium 1 of the 8 Pages of Honour to locomotion the procession wrong London's Westminster Abbey. Other boys tapped for the grant include Camilla's grandsons Freddy Parker Bowles, Gus Lopes and Louis Lopes.
So, who other volition beryllium invited to the royal gathering? The Palace is keeping the afloat impermanent database nether fastener and key, though a rep for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle confirmed successful March that the mates received "email correspondence" from the king's bureau astir the coronation.
Handout/Hugo Burnand/Buckingham Palace via Getty Images
The spokesperson told Associated Press, "An contiguous determination connected whether the Duke and Duchess volition be volition not beryllium disclosed by america astatine this time."
Should the Duke and Duchess of Sussex be the coronation, which falls connected the 4th birthday of their son Prince Archie, it volition beryllium their archetypal in-person gathering with Charles since the merchandise of Harry's bombshell memoir, Spare. Harry, who besides shares 22-month-old daughter Princess Lilibet with Meghan, said successful January that helium was undecided connected his attendance given "a batch that tin hap betwixt present and then."
"But the doorway is ever open," helium told ITV. "The shot is successful their court. There's a batch to beryllium discussed and I truly anticipation that they are consenting to beryllium down and speech astir it."
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