Now Harry’s wingman set to f ly to LA to heal rift
PRINCE Harry and his former wingman Tom ‘Skippy’ Inskip have finally put their differences aside and patched things up.
Both men are now parents and fatherhood has given them some much-needed perspective, I’m told. The pair plan to meet up after the lockdown ends in the United States, where they both live.
Their once-close relationship deteriorated after Skippy reportedly dared to suggest to Harry that he should think twice about marrying Meghan Markle.
Although Skippy and his wife Lara were invited to the wedding ceremony at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2018, they were notably absent from the lavish evening reception at Frogmore House.
Instead, they had to watch as the Royal couple’s new friends such as Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney made their way to the event.
Now I’m delighted to reveal that Skippy, who lives in Washington DC and works at US tech giant Afiniti, is making plans to take his company’s private jet to Los Angeles with his newborn son Albert to meet Harry and his toddler Archie.
A friend tells me: ‘Harry and Tom fell out but things are back on track now.
‘They’re now fathers and they both realise they need to share these precious times together, given they have so much history together.
‘They’ve been through thick and thin, and while they did fall out, they realised that life is too short to be estranged. They would like their children to grow up together.’
The pair have been close since they met at Eton. Skippy was one of those in Las Vegas in 2012 when Harry was i nfamously caught playing naked billiards with showgirls in a hotel suite.
Harry had a key role at Skippy’s wedding in Jamaica in 2017, which was one of Meghan’s first public appearances as the Prince’s partner.