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With the wedding season fully upon us, the Royal Family are also set to enjoy a jolly knees up this weekend when they head to the picturesque Cotswolds for the nuptials of King Charles\u2019 nephew, Peter Philips and his wife-to-be, nurse Harriet Sperling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wedding of Princess Anne\u2019s son, also Zara Tindall\u2019s brother, has been described as an \u2018intimate\u2019 celebration of the couple\u2019s family and friends \u2013 but the guest list is certainly far from humble. Among guests likely to attend are Charles and Queen Camilla; Peter\u2019s cousin Prince William and Kate Middleton; Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie; Princess Anne, the Edinburghs, Edward and Sophie, and Zara and Mike Tindall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, it\u2019s little wonder that the guest list has prompted questions over whether Prince Harry, Peter\u2019s first cousin, and Meghan Markle will attend, given that Peter was present at their 2018 wedding day at St.George’s Chapel in Windsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But last week a friend of the couple confirmed that the Sussexes have not been invited, saying, \u2018Peter and Harry haven\u2019t spoken for several years and have simply lost touch, so he hasn\u2019t been invited.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we\u2019re told the surprising snub has hurt Harry, 41, who spent a lot of time with Peter, 48, throughout their childhoods. An insider says, \u2018Harry expected to at least get an invite. This is his first cousin and someone he grew up with and has always been very close to. It is true that in the last few years they have drifted but Peter was at his wedding and he was at Peter\u2019s first wedding.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharing fond memories of their childhood, during which they spent summers at Sandringham, Peter said on Good Morning Britain in 2016, \u2018We had a lot of fun and there was a lot of space for kids to run around in, and it wasn’t just us \u2013 it was the Waleses (William and Harry), Freddie and Ella Windsor (Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s children), and the Gloucesters (Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, Lady Davina Lewis and Lady Rose Gilman, the children of the Queen’s cousin, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester).\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when it comes to who is to blame for the royal wedding snub, the source says Harry is adamant that Peter has been \u2018pressured\u2019 by William not to extend an invitation to Harry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re told, \u2018Harry says he\u2019s 100% sure William is the reason that he\u2019s been getting the cold shoulder from Peter. He says it\u2019s obvious William has pressured Peter to take sides. And he says this wedding situation just proves it because why else would he not be invited?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018As far as Harry is concerned the only possible reason for Peter to snub him is pressure from William. He\u2019s very hurt that Peter would turn his back on him like this, but says he doesn\u2019t actually blame him because he knows how persuasive William can be and how he likes to throw his weight around.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past few years since Harry\u2019s move to Montecito, it has become clear that Peter has drifted away from his younger cousin and grown closer to William, 43, with whom he is described as having a \u2018brotherly bond\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During an interview with Sky News Australia in 2024, Peter praised William and Kate as being a \u2018fantastic team\u2019 and referred to Kate as \u2018remarkable\u2019. Meanwhile, Harry met his father for the first time in 19 months last September but is believed not to have spoken to most of his family members for almost four years following the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s funeral in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even Eugenie, who he had remained close to, was reported to have distanced herself from him after an alleged row between her and Harry last year over a photograph of her having lunch with Piers Morgan, who has openly criticised the Sussexes, emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we\u2019re told Harry is convinced that William is on a campaign to isolate him further from the royal fold and furthering his ‘outcast status’ as a result. The insider says, \u2018Harry suspects that William has been on a mission to turn every single family member against him and slowly but surely it seems to be working. Harry sees it as very petty that he has effectively blocked his own younger brother from attending a family wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘It\u2019s been so many years and he still seems to just thrive on rubbing Harry’s nose in his outcast status. Harry says his brother loves to come across as this mellow, measured character, when in reality, he believes is going to be an extremely dictatorial monarch when he takes the throne.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, speculation has been mounting in recent months over whether Harry could be set to reunite with Charles again this summer when he returns to the UK in July for an event celebrating the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has also been reported how the King, who is said to want a closer relationship with his grandchildren \u2013 Archie, seven, and Lilibet, four \u2013 could reconsider the \u2018half in, half out\u2019 proposal Harry had asked for back in 2020, which would likely see Harry carry out royal duties from his home in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, with this in mind, the source says the last thing Harry wants is to come across as bitter about not attending the wedding, as we\u2019re told that instead ,he is taking the snub in his stride and standing his ground when it comes to William\u2019s alleged bid to oust him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re told, \u2018It\u2019s not as though this is going to be a small wedding, Harry is claiming he would have had no problem keeping things civil and swerving William but he says his brother\u2019s ego can\u2019t handle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018But there is no way that Harry will lash out publicly over this, he doesn\u2019t want to give William the pleasure of seeing him sweat. He\u2019s even sent a gift to the bride and groom, as a show of goodwill and a direct acknowledgement of their omission. If he just cuts communication with everyone that William has pushed away from him he will be totally letting him win, and he refuses to do that.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos: Getty<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry is \u2018very hurt\u2019 by the surprising snub as he fumes, \u2018I won\u2019t let them win!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity"],"acf":{"article_authors":"","send_as_draft":false,"send_as_paid":true,"send_as_featured":true},"modified_by":"closermag","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13959,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions\/13959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/closerv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2220998782-scaled.jpg\")
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