PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle WONT join the Queen for her first Christmas without Prince Philip, sources claim.
The Sussexes will instead spend the festive season at their £11million California mansion with Archie, two, and five-month-old Lilibet to avoid an inevitable “media frenzy” at their return to England, it is understood.
This year will be the first Christmas since the death of the Queen’s “strength and stay” Prince Philip died April.
The Palace did invite Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, to join them for their traditional Christmas Day festivities in Sandringham, but they will not accept, Page Six sources understand.
One insider said: “There’s a lot that goes into the logistics and the planning of the family Christmas, so of course, staff know that Harry and Meghan are not coming.
“If they were, they would have communicated it to their family by now.
“But this is Her Majesty’s first Christmas without her husband, so one would have hoped they would want to be with her.”
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