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Prince Harry was said to have been left “blinking through tears” on his last ever royal engagement five years ago.
Today, King Charles and Queen Camilla, as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales, will all attend the grand Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, with the event being the last official engagement attended by Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, when they quit life as senior royals five years ago.
When the couple attended the event in 2020, people began to pick up on tensions within the family, as reported by The Mirror.
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 Netflix 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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