Prince Harry and Megan may not have announced their visit in advance, the first Duchess in Europe in the two years since the couple left the UK in March 2020 and were released from official royal life. But this would have been described as a family occasion, “like all private gatherings”, and not as a formal engagement, so it would not have been announced in advance, according to Joesty Little, editor of Majesty Magazine. “A very welcome, albeit belated, move by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” he said of the meeting, which took place a week before the Queen’s 96th birthday next Thursday. The couple is also believed to have met Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, who were in Windsor for Holy Thursday services, which Charles resisted the Queen. But for a load of tourists, who saw the Sussex look “relaxed” and happy to hand-turn to castle visitors, he later told the Sun, news of the reunion may not have surfaced until the Sussex left. United Kingdom to The Hague to attend. Invictus Games for Injured Staff, founded by Harry. Harry, who last saw his grandmother in person at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral a year ago, has been heavily criticized by UK tabloids for his absence from Prince Philip’s memorial service last month. At the time, his spokesman said he had plans to visit his grandmother in the near future. From Thursday’s meeting with the queen, the couple’s spokesman said that “they can confirm that they visited the duke’s grandmother, as we said earlier that she hoped to do”. The couple did not bring their children, Archie, who will turn three next month, and Lilibet, 10 months old, who is named after the queen but whom the monarch has not yet met. The visit was hailed by a royal observer as a way in which Harry slowly began rebuilding some bridges with his father, whom he had criticized in interviews. It is also considered an “olive branch”, said another, after the bitterness of Oprah Winfrey’s interview given by the couple and their difficult relationship with other members of the royal family since then. For their part, the Queen, Charles and William will keep in mind that the much-publicized memoirs of Harry will be published this fall. The Sussexes are thought to have stayed at their ex-husband, Frogmore Cottage, on the Windsor estate, where Princess Eugenie and her family now live. They reportedly flew to the Netherlands after the visit, where they will appear at the Invictus Games, accompanied by a Netflix crew for a documentary, Heart of Invictus, as part of the $ 100 million (76 76.5 million ζευ) pair deal for streaming. Company. While there, they are said to have been granted VVIP status and the protection of the Dutch police. The duke cited security fears in the UK as one reason he was unable to attend Philip’s memorial service. He has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the Home Office, claiming it is too risky to bring his family to the UK after he was stripped of his official metropolitan police protection, despite being offered to pay privately for it. The couple’s brief return to the UK came as concerns over the queen’s health continue. She is expected to miss the Easter service and, since recovering from Covid in February, whom she said “felt very tired and exhausted”, also has mobility problems.