Meghan and Harry ‘must be invited to Coronation’
HARRY and Meghan should be invited to King Charles III’S coronation, a poll reveals.
It comes as a royal expert said King Charles is “open to reconciliation” with his son and is intent on him being at the event in May.
Stewart Pearce, who was a good friend of Princess Diana and remains close to the Royal Family, said: “His Majesty really wants peace to happen and wants Harry to be at the ceremony.”
In the poll, just under half – 44 per cent – said the couple should be asked to attend the historic day while 41 per cent said no and 15 per cent weren’t sure.
But writing in today’s Sunday Express, royal author Margaret Holder has raised concerns that a coronation invitation could be “a royal pardon too far” for Harry and Meghan following their “vilification of the monarchy” in recent TV interviews and his tell-all memoir Spare.
She argues the poll of 1,500 people by Redfield & Wilton Strategies shows the majority are not in favour, with 56 per cent either against the invitation or undecided.
But Mr Pearce said the King “loves his son passionately and is an immensely honest man” and blamed the row between them on their “very different” approaches to resolving family conflict.
Harry and Meghan have followed the “psychotherapeutic perspective” while Charles and Prince William believe “these things should not be talked about”.
“There are very, very different mental and emotional perspectives. It is not that Charles masks the truth. He is an immensely honest man.
“He is emotionally constricted, while he may not say that, but describe that as shyness and introversion,” he said.
Mr Pearce, who wrote bestseller Diana: The Voice Of Change, said the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex will “think through all aspects of the reconciliation and compromise” to create a “true, honest relationship”.
“Charles would be open to that. I feel Charles wants to listen and interpret accordingly,” said Mr Pearce, who is set to travel to the US west coast for a series of speaking engagements with the British American Business Council later this month.
But Ms Holder said: “Harry recently demanded an apology for his wife and warned he has more damaging stories about Charles and William. Meghan has said, ‘I’ve never had to sign anything that restricts me from talking.’
“With threats like these, can they really expect seats alongside the other dukes and duchesses at the coronation? Wouldn’t that be a royal pardon too far?”
The row follows a series of tell-all interviews by Harry and Meghan and his bestselling book. He has asked for the Royal Family to apologise to his
wife, having claimed they supported the Princess ofwales but not Meghan.
The couple will overshadow the coronation – even if they stay away, says royal expert Charles Rae. He believes the pair have become potentially bigger news than the event itself.
Speaking to GB News, he said: “I firmly believe that they will be invited. Now, whether or not they come is the big $64,000 question.
“But whatever happens, whether they come or they don’t come, they’re still going to be the main celebrity and it’s going to take the shine off the coronation, there’s no question about that.
“They are becoming, you know, a social talking point for everybody in the country, and it’s like a scab that you’ve got and when you start to pick at it, it gets worse and worse and worse.
“So, whatever happens, whether they come or they stay away, they will still be at the forefront of that coronation, which I think is a great, great pity,” he added.