PRINCE Harry is set to stay “low-key” and spend “as little time as possible in the UK” before flying back to wife Meghan in Los Angeles, according to royal experts.
Harry, 36, will return to the UK next week for the unveiling of a statue of his mum Diana on what would’ve been her 60th birthday.
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On the Royal Rota podcast, ITV royal editor Chris Ship said he thought that Harry and brother William will be trying to keep the event “as low-key as possible”.
“I’d imagine he’d be spending as little time here as he possibly can before he goes back to the Californian sunshine,” Ship said.
Harry and William have ditched plans for a big gathering next week to celebrate the unveiling of the Diana statue amid Covid fears.
The guest list for the ceremony has been slashed from more than 100 to just a handful of people.
Harry is expected to travel to the UK from the home he shares with wife Meghan, 39, and their two children in California for the unveiling.
With the brothers set to stand shoulder-to-shoulder despite their ongoing bitter rift, dozens of Diana’s friends, ex-staff and supporters were due to gather at Kensington Palace on July 1.
But because Freedom Day has been delayed, the princes have hit the brakes on a large ceremony and will instead only be welcoming a few Spencer relatives, the Mail reported.
Guests who haven’t made the scaled back list – including Elton John and David Furnish – will instead be invited to a rescheduled date in September.
The unveiling next Thursday will be only the second time the brothers have come face to face since Harry’s bombshell chat with Oprah Winfrey.
The pair last saw each other at Prince Philip’s funeral back in April.
‘NO SYMPATHY’
Podcast producer Lizzie Robinson said she felt there would be little sympathy for Harry and Meghan after they claimed they were “cut off” by the Royal Family after Megxit.
She said: “I think a lot of people won’t have any sympathy. We’ve got people living in a very, very well-off situation and I think a lot of people have absolutely no sympathy for them feeling like that.”
Harry and Meghan claimed they weren’t misleading the public when they moaned Charles “cut them off” during their explosive chat with Oprah Winfrey earlier this year.
However Prince Charles’ annual report showed his youngest son received a “substantial” sum from him after Megxit.
Figures show he gave both the Sussexes and Cambridges a share of £4.45million, despite Harry claiming he had been hung out to dry by the Firm.
In a sensational swipe back, Harry and Meghan tried to deny any contradiction at all.
A spokesperson for the Sussexes said “it’s inaccurate to suggest that there’s a contradiction”, and insisted Harry was talking about the first quarter of the financial year from April 2020.
They said: “The duke’s comments during the Oprah interview were in reference to the first quarter of the fiscal reporting period in the UK, which starts annually in April.
“This is the same date that the ‘transitional year’ of the Sandringham agreement began and is aligned with the timeline that Clarence House referenced.”
