Prince Harry is reportedly planning to take his children, Archie and Lilibet, to visit the grave of Diana, Princess of Wales for the first time during a trip to the UK next month. According to The Sun, the visit to Althorp House in Northamptonshire will take place days after what would have been Diana's 65th birthday.
Details of the visit
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to travel from their home in California to the UK next month to attend celebrations marking the one-year countdown to Harry's Invictus Games, which will be hosted in Birmingham. The duke is also scheduled to attend events with WellChild and Scotty's Little Soldiers, charities he supports.
This trip comes after Harry met with King Charles III in September last year for the first time in 19 months. The King is still undergoing treatment for cancer.
Diana's resting place
Althorp House was Diana's home from her parents' divorce until her marriage to Prince Charles. Diana died at the age of 36 from injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, when Harry was a child. Following her death, she was laid to rest on a secluded, tree-covered island in the centre of the ornamental Round Oval lake on the Althorp Estate.
Harry has been involved in a protracted legal battle with the Home Office over security arrangements for him and his family while in the UK. His level of protection changed when he stepped down as a working royal in 2020. Security concerns have been cited by the duke as a reason he could not bring his family to the UK, but it appears these concerns have been mitigated, with reports claiming the Sussexes were given assurances.
Security and family matters
Sources have stressed that all security matters are issues for the Home Office to decide, and the King does not play a role in the process and has not made any private undertakings. It has been four years since Archie, now seven, and Lilibet, five, last saw their grandfather, the King, in person during Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.
Harry and Meghan do not have a permanent UK home after they were asked to vacate their Windsor residence, Frogmore Cottage, which was a gift from the late Queen, in 2023. This occurred just weeks after the duke's damning memoir, Spare, was released.
