Did Harry turn down dinner over duchess’s exclusion?

PRINCE Harry ‘refused’ to have dinner with his father and brother after Meghan was banned from joining the family at Balmoral on the day the Queen died, it was claimed today.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, was reportedly left ‘furious’ after King Charles phoned to tell him it was ‘not appropriate’ for Meghan, 41, to accompany him to the estate on September 8.

William took an RAF flight to Scotland with their uncles Andrew and Edward. But Harry is said to have missed it because he was ‘so busy trying to get Meghan to Balmoral and rowing with his family’.

Told to make his own travel arrangements, he landed at Aberdeen airport without the Duchess of Sussex minutes after the Queen’s death was announced to the world. There was never any suggestion Kate would join William but the Sussexes were said to have announced that morning Meghan and Harry were on their way – but by the afternoon the plan had changed.

Today, The Sun reported that Harry was invited to dine at Birkhall, his father’s home on the Balmoral estate, with the King, William and Camilla, Queen Consort the night of the Queen’s death. But he was said to have instead remained at Balmoral Castle with the Earl and Countess of Wessex and the Duke of York.

A source told the newspaper: ‘Charles has an open invitation for Harry to dine with him whenever he is in the country. But Harry was so furious that he refused to eat with his father and brother.

‘And he got out of Balmoral at the earliest opportunity to catch the first commercial flight back to London.’