Prince Harry Was Not Invited to King Charles's 75th Birthday

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King Charles turns 75 next week, and there's been speculation about the guest list at his birthday party.

This weekend, the Sunday Times reported that King Charles will celebrate his birthday at Clarence House, and that Prince Harry would "not making the trip from California" despite being invited. However, a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex has called these reports "disappointing." T&C understands that the Times never reached out to the Sussexes.

A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told Town & Country, "In response to UK media headlines, there has been no contact regarding an invitation to His Majesty’s upcoming birthday. It is disappointing the Sunday Times has misreported this story." T&C has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment; as of publication time, we have not heard back.

Since he and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior working royals, Prince Harry has made the trip back to the UK a few times, including in September for the annual WellChild awards and in May for his King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation. It's unclear the current status of Harry's relationship with his father; during a 60 Minutes interview to promote his memoir, Spare, at the start of this year, Harry revealed that he wasn't in contact with his brother, Prince William, or his father.

When Anderson Cooper asked Harry if he was in contact with Charles, Harry replied, "We aren't— we haven't spoken for quite a while." Still, the Duke of Sussex remains hopeful for reconciliation, telling Cooper, "The ball is very much in their court. But, you know, Meghan and I have continued to say that we will openly apologize for anything that we did wrong, but every time we ask that question, no one's telling us the specifics or anything. There needs to be a constructive conversation, one that can happen in private that doesn't get leaked."

Harry wrote extensively about Charles in Spare, giving a nuanced perspective of the king as a father. "He had trouble communicating, trouble listening, trouble being intimate face-to-face," the prince writes. "On occasion, after a long multi-course dinner, I’d walk upstairs and find a letter on my pillow. The letter would say how proud he was of me for something I’d done or accomplished. I’d smile, place it under my pillow, but also wonder why he hadn’t said this moments ago, while seated directly across from me."

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