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Given all of the palace briefings about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex\u2019s fictional Christmas plans over the weekend, I think we can safely say that the palace constantly uses Harry and Meghan\u2019s names to gin up interest in literally anything they\u2019ve got going on. This week, the royals are focusing on their Christmas plans, and Chris Ship at ITV truly got a full briefing on all of the Christmas-at-Sandringham plans on Monday. I already covered the news about Queen Camilla inviting her family to Sandringham this year – a first, and a signal that the Parker-Bowles relations are more acceptable than Harry, Harry\u2019s wife and Harry\u2019s children. <\/p>\n
In any case, the point of the palace briefing to Chris Ship was to not only announce the Parker-Bowles news, but to emphasize that the Sussexes have not been invited and are not welcome at Sandringham. Ship\u2019s palace briefing repeatedly emphasized that Sandringham would have a large gathering, so much so that Christmas dinner would need a bigger room and a bigger table, and despite all of this, the Sussexes \u201cwill not be there.\u201d<\/em> Prince Andrew will be – he\u2019s once again taking up residence at Wood Farm, and Sarah Ferguson will be with him too. Given the Sussex news, of course Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast had to call up his favorite source, \u201ca friend of Prince William,\u201d to rage about the Sussexes not being invited to Christmas.<\/p>\n Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly not been invited to join the royal family at Christmas this year, with details of the Sussex-free Sandringham guest list appearing just hours after sources described as friends were quoted as saying they would like an invite.<\/p>\n The leaking of the official guest list to ITV.com\u2019s respected royal reporter Chris Ship so soon after the notion of the Sussexes being invited was floated will be seen by many as a clear sign that the palace wanted to shut down speculation around the story. <\/p>\n The king\u2019s office is thought to have been annoyed in recent days by the Sussex camp leaking details of a private phone call made by Harry and his family to the king to congratulate him on his birthday, which had the effect of focusing media attention on personality-driven family drama rather than Charles\u2019 new anti-food waste project. If they have been equally unimpressed by the Sussexes testing the water on Christmas in mid-November, it might go some way to explaining the rapid rebuttal.<\/p>\n A friend of Prince William\u2019s told The Daily Beast that William would have been implacably opposed to joining any party for Christmas lunch which included Harry and Meghan.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole idea of them coming for Christmas was typically narcissistic and delusional,\u201d the friend said. \u201cThere is no way William or Kate would want them there after what he wrote in his book. Would you want to sit down for a slap-up lunch with someone who had basically called you an a–hole in public? It would be a total humiliation. William and Kate are never, ever going to sign up for that, and Charles wouldn\u2019t ask them to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [From The Daily Beast]<\/p>\n\n
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