Meghan Markle has ‘too much on her plate’ to face ‘stress of coming to UK’ with Harry & fears being heckled, says pro
PRINCE Harry is reportedly planning to spend a few weeks in the UK this summer to reconnect with his family.
According to Closer, the Duke of Sussex wishes to “prioritise mending his broken relationship with his family” – but Meghan Markle won’t join him.
The publication claimed: “Harry is very anxious to go home and see his dad, catch up with his friends for his birthday in September and also pay a visit to his aunt, Princess Anne. But that situation hasn’t changed for Meghan.
“She’s respectful that Harry has to go back to his home for practical and emotional reasons, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to go with him.”
Meghan is currently having a busy year, and is set to soon launch her lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard.
So far she has teased the brand by sending 50 jams to friends and influencers, including Kris Jenner.
Meghan has also reportedly wrapped up filming her next Netflix show, which is a cooking programme.
The insider claimed: “She’s got way too much on her plate with the brand and her new cooking show, as well as looking after the kids.
“The last thing she needs is the stress of going back to the UK, where she fears she’d be heckled again in public, which she finds incredibly painful”.
Previously, when Meghan and Harry arrived at St Paul’s in 2022 for the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, they exited the car to an overwhelming sound of booing.
The Duchess of Sussex’s popularity has taken a significant hit with a new poll unveiling she’s not that popular among Brits.
The Ipsos poll, marking the first anniversary of King Charles’ Coronation, showed a whopping 75 per cent of Brits are not fans of Meghan.
Prince Harry has also been hit by the results, languishing near the bottom of the popularity table with only 31 per cent approval rating.
But the poll also shows that couple seems to resonate more with younger generations – with Meghan boasting 42 per cent among 18 to 34 years-olds.
The Duke of Sussex, 39, visited the UK in May for an Invictus Games event, leaving Meghan at home in California.
Harry spent three nights in London on a whistle-stop tour but didn’t see his cancer-stricken dad King Charles or brother Prince William.
Prince Harry claimed the King was “too busy” to meet.
A spokesman said: “It unfortunately will not be possible due to His Majesty’s full programme.
“The Duke of course is understanding of his father’s diary of commitments and various other priorities and hopes to see him soon.”
A timeline of Prince Harry's family feud
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.
In Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.