Brief encounter: Harry’s 15-minute Windsor visit

HARRY and Meghan spent just 15 minutes meeting the Queen when they flew in from California to attend her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, it was claimed yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex travelled to Windsor Castle soon after arriving in the UK. It was the first time their daughter Lilibet met her great-grandmother, with the couple’s son Archie, three, also there.

But the meeting was ‘quite formal’ and lasted just a quarter of an hour, it was reported yesterday. ‘It was a quick in and out job,’ a source told The Sun on Sunday.

It comes as sources confirmed reports the Queen banned Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, from bringing a photographer to capture the moment she was introduced to her great-grandchild on June 2. Buckingham Palace declined to comment but sources have suggested the couple were told it was a ‘private family meeting’.

Lilibet turned one during the UK trip, with the couple celebrating at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor. The New York Post reported they invited William, Kate and their three children, but the family did not attend.

In fact, Harry did not spend any private time with William during their brief trip to the UK.