Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry ‘blinking through tears’ after major ‘snub’

was said to have been on his last ever royal engagement five years ago.

Today, and , as well as the Prince and , will all attend the

When the couple attended the event in 2020, people began to pick up on tensions within the family,

In the book Battle of Brothers, royal author and historian Robert Lacey also picked up on the tension at the engagement. He wrote: “Observers also noted that Harry’s face was ‘quite tense and unsmiling’ – and that when William sat down close to him, he barely greeted his brother.

“Throughout the service, Meghan megawatted away with her best TV smile but, as the ceremony progressed, Harry appeared to grow gloomier.

According to one observer, “his accelerated blinking even suggested he might have been fighting back tears.'”

Harry also spoke about the engagement in the docuseries Harry and Meghan, released in 2022. He said: “I felt really distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting because so much of how they operate is about what it looks like, rather than what it feels like. And it looked cold. But it also felt cold.”

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