The Royal Family Is Reportedly ‘Refusing’ Blame After Prince Harry’s Daughter’s Birthday Snub Went Public
July 14, 2022 by Maria Pierides
It didn’t take long for the world to find out that many members of the royal family – including Prince William and Kate Middleton, along with their three children, Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4 – didn’t attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter Lilibet’s first birthday party, which took place on Saturday, June 4th over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend. And according to a royal insider, many members of the royal family are reluctant to admit to having any involvement in the one-year-old’s party, including the fact that so many people didn’t attend went public so quickly.
“Although the wider family were invited to Lilibet’s first birthday party on the Saturday, only the Tindalls’ and Mr Phillips’ children attended, while their parents spent the afternoon at the Epsom Derby,” royal expert Camilla Tominey wrote in The Telegraph. Tominey added: “According to one source: ‘There was a bit of reluctance among the royals to admit to having any involvement in Lilibet’s birthday party.'”
The Sussexes reportedly also invited Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and the Queen herself, but they were unable to attend. We don’t know the exact reasons for their absence – although it’s thought that the Queen’s absence was related to her ongoing mobility issues and post Covid fatigue – but we do know that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge couldn’t be there as they took their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte to Wales for some Platinum Jubilee engagements.