Ahead of Queen Ellizabeth’s annual Christmas address, the Royal Family has released a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s holiday card Tuesday featuring baby Archie, who’s celebrating his first Christmas. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made clear last month they wouldn’t be spending the winter season with the royal family.
They’ll travel to Canada rather than spend the Christmas holidays at Sandringham Estate — the queen’s rural retreat, as has long been customary for senior royals.
Prince Harry and Meghan did manage to send out a holiday greeting, which the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust tweeted was “the sweetest.”
A rift has developed between Prince Harry and Prince William.
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And, according to the Associated Press, both Harry and Meghan have complained about constant scrutiny by the media as they settle into family life with 7-month-old Archie.
Queen Elizabeth’s address was expected to emphasize the need for reconciliation and forgiveness. “The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference,” Elizabeth will say, according to the Associated Press.
She is thought to be referring both to Britain’s tortuous path out of the European Union, which led to a lengthy political stalemate broken only earlier this month when voters gave the pro-Brexit Conservative Party a comfortable majority in Parliament, and to the royal family’s setbacks.
Additional problems facing the queen’s family this year included Prince Andrew’s retreat from public duties because of a disastrous TV interview in which he defended his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
