Why Kate did not go to Balmoral to go to the dying Queen

Prince Harry was not informed his sister-in-law had personally determined in opposition to travelling to Balmoral when the late Queen was dying, an interesting new biography reveals.

While the royal had raged at his father on the September day in 2022 when Charles requested him to come back alone to Scotland, leaving spouse Meghan behind, he was apparently pacified by the information that Kate was not going too.

But what he did not know, royal biographer Robert Hardman now reveals, is that the king hadn’t really requested Kate to remain away.

She had determined herself to stay at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor together with her three kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

They have been beginning their new college, Lambrook, on September 8 and the Duchess of Cambridge she felt they wanted one dad or mum with them.

Her husband, Prince William, was understandably racing as much as Scotland to see his grandmother with the then Earl and Countess of Wessex and Duke of York.

‘It was by luck slightly than judgement, however it made it quite a bit simpler to inform Harry that he was coming alone,’ a royal aide says.

The e book additionally notes that, ‘just like the late Duke of Edinburgh, she [Queen Elizabeth] didn’t like a queue of household well-wishers flocking to her bedside when in poor health’.

The revelation is available in a compelling new biography of the King, ‘Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story,’ by the Daily Mail’s esteemed royal knowledgeable, Robert Hardman.

The e book is being serialised within the Mail over the subsequent 4 days, beginning on Saturday.

It particulars the dramatic story of the King’s accession to the throne and boasts unrivalled entry to the Royal Family, their shut associates, workers previous and current, prime politicians and beforehand unseen papers within the Royal Archives that are stored underneath lock and key.

While Harry performs a notably small half within the wider story, the e book does particulars how, because the later Queen’s life slowly ebbed away, drama was brewing within the background.

The prince was within the UK along with his spouse Meghan when his father personally known as him to interrupt the information her well being on was failing on September 8.

In his memoir, Spare, he claims he then texted his elder brother to ask about journey preparations however William did not reply.

‘Clearly, Prince William didn’t regard this as the suitable second for the intensely troublesome dialog he wanted to have along with his brother,’ Daily Mail royal knowledgeable Robert Hardman writes dryly.

There was wariness, he says, about Harry’s forthcoming biography and plenty of within the household have been nonetheless sore over the Sussexes’ ‘reckless betrayal’ as regards their Oprah Winfrey interview.

‘Some of the household have been most likely prepared to offer him a bit of their thoughts,’ Hardman quotes a supply saying.

In regular circumstances senior royals would not even talk about such logistics themselves. That could be left to their workers.

Kensington Palace say Harry’s staff – ‘the Sussex camp’ – ‘had all of the numbers’ however no such name got here.

Charles known as Harry once more. It is on this name, the prince later claimed, he was informed to come back with out Meghan.

‘We can simply picture the dread with which the [then] Prince of Wales approached that decision. The Sussexes’ capability for taking offence was well-known and as everybody was acutely aware that any dialog might find yourself within the public area – as, certainly, this one did three months later,’ Hardman says dryly.

Harry raged at his father over Meghan, he later admitted, describing him in Spare as ‘nonsensical and disrespectful’.

‘I wasn’t having it. Don’t ever discuss my spouse that approach,’ he wrote.

But Charles defined that he did not need a number of folks in the home and, in addition to, Harry’s sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge wasn’t coming both.

‘Then that is all you wanted to say,’ the prince wrote, apparently mollified by this.

But what he did not know, Hardman reveals, is that the king hadn’t requested Kate to remain away in any respect.

‘She had definitely not been requested to remain away,’ he writes.

‘Rather, it was the beginning of a brand new time period at a brand new college for George, Charlotte and Louis, and she or he had determined that one dad or mum needs to be with them on such an essential day.’

He stresses at that stage no-one fairly knew how dangerous the scenario had turn out to be.

Harry additionally claimed in Spare that no-one that informed him his grandmother had died and that he needed to study the information from a BBC breaking information alert on his cellphone as he touched down in Scotland that night on a business flight.

‘Not precisely,’ write Hardman. ‘A member of Palace workers says that the King had been urgently attempting to make contact along with his youthful son. ‘There have been repeated makes an attempt to get by way of to him however no calls have been going by way of as a result of Harry was airborne,’ says the official.

Adapted from Charles III by Robert Hardman, to be revealed by Macmillan on 18 January at £22. © Robert Hardman 2024. To order a replica for £17.60 (provide legitimate to 29/02/2024; UK P&P free on orders over £25) go to www.mailshop.co.uk/books or name 020 3176 2937.