“Both he and the Princess of Wales felt the focus should be solely on this period of deep mourning and nothing else,” an insider revealed. “That the focus should only be on his late grandmother.” Agreeing that, above all else, family should come first, Harry decided to swallow his pride and allow his older brother to take the lead, even admitting to being driven by William in the back of a rusty Audi. Doubts have been raised over reports that King Charles intervened to stop Meghan boarding the Cessna Harry chartered from Luton Airport to fly him to Aberdeen on Thursday. The truth, according to a palace source, is that “Harry hadn’t even been invited” by the time William boarded his own private jet for Scotland with the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex. And this is because the heir to the throne was initially called by his father in his constitutional capacity as Councilor of State. It seems that while the family knew the Queen was seriously ill when she took off from RAF Northolt on Thursday midday, they did not expect her to deteriorate so quickly – with Charles even thinking he and William might be able to host her virtual The privy council meeting had adjourned the day before. Only after Buckingham Palace announced that “concerned” doctors had placed the late Queen under medical supervision did Harry make the trip to Balmoral. Meghan stayed behind after it was revealed the Princess of Wales would not be accompanying William, preferring instead to break the news of “Gan Gan’s” death to their three children, Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven and four-year-old Prince Louis. after their first day at Lambrook School.
