‘GUILTY’ Prince Harry “won’t be able to face his family” at the Queen’s Jubilee after writing his tell-all memoir, an expert said.
The Duke, who lives in California with Meghan Markle and their two children, is believed to return to the UK for his grandmother’s celebrations this year.
But as he launches a legal battle over his protection in the UK, others believe Harry won’t show up because of the “guilt” he has over his memoir.
Last year, Harry announced that he would be writing a memoir that will be “wholly truthful” and “written as the man I have become”.
The blurb says that the book will cover Harry’s “lifetime in the public eye from childhood to the present day, including his dedication to service, the military duty that twice took him to the frontlines of Afghanistan, and the joy he has found in being a husband and father”.
And the book deal was signed with Penguin Random House – which is said to have paid Harry around £14m in advance.
But now experts believe he won’t return to the UK this year because he can’t face his family knowing what he’s written about them in his book.
And his row over protection is just an “excuse” to miss the Jubliee festivities.
Tom Bower, whose biography on Meghan Markle is set to launch this year, told Closer: “The next few months will be the ultimate test for Harry, the ultimate dilemma.
“He insists he adores his grandmother, so will he come back to support her at Prince Philip’s memorial service, and will he come back to support her and celebrate her reign in the Platinum Jubilee?
“If he doesn’t come back, it’s a clear statement of where lies his loyalty and his own interest.
“And if they don’t come back soon, and Lilibet doesn’t meet the Queen and Harry doesn’t celebrate her life and reign with her, it could be something he comes to regret forever.”
The writer, dubbed Britain’s “most feared biographer” who is working on a tell-all tome about the duchess, puts his potential no-show down to his guilty conscience over the book.
‘WORSE STILL TO COME’
Mr Bower added: “I personally think he won’t come back this year. I think the notion that he’s worried about his own security and needs the Met Police is an excuse.
“And I think Harry won’t come back because he knows he cannot face his family, and be pleasant with them, knowing what he’s written about them in that book.
“That book will have a lot of casualties and cause a lot of hurt.
“It will really deliver, as Harry knows it has to, to justify the money he’s been paid to do it.
“The worst of what he will say is yet to come.”
This comes after experts claimed the Duchess of Sussex has “no intention” of returning to the UK where she is “no longer welcome” as she simply “doesn’t care” what Brits think.
Writing in The Celeb Report, Mr Bower said: “At the moment, Meghan’s ultimate destination is unclear, but she certainly has the backing to make a bid to star as an American politician.
“In parallel, Britain is a lost cause for the Sussexes.
“In truth, I suspect Meghan no longer cares whether she is welcome in London.
“She has no intention of returning.”
