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Even after Prince Harry stirred up \u201cpsychodrama\u201d and lost out on his chance to stay at Buckingham Palace when he visited the U.K. earlier this month, King Charles III wants to continue to extend an \u201colive branch\u201d and has reportedly offered him accommodations at the royal residence when he returns to London for a charitable event in September.<\/p>\n

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But not everyone who works for the king at Buckingham Palace is happy about this invitation to the king\u2019s errant, California-based son, according to entertainment writer Rob Shuter. This offer from the king \u201ccould reignite tensions behind palace walls,\u201d Shuter wrote on his Naughty But Nice Substack Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe king may want Harry under his roof, but many of the people who work there don\u2019t,\u201d a palace insider told Shuter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey felt deeply betrayed by everything that followed \u2018Spare\u2019 and the interviews, and that resentment is still very real,\u201d the insider continued, explaining how staff is very \u201cloyal\u201d to the king and the royal family. The insider referenced Harry\u2019s memoir and multiple interviews in which he and his wife, Meghan Markle, revealed royal family secrets and accused Harry\u2019s family members of being cruel, calculating, dysfunctional and even racist.<\/p>\n

The Sun reported Sunday that Harry would again be offered a room at Buckingham Palace. But\u00a0Shuter reported that palace staff were \u201cfurious\u201d when that same offer previously went out to Harry for his visit in early July. The Duke of Sussex kept \u201cdithering\u201d on whether he would accept that offer until the king finally pulled the plug on the invitation, The Sun and the Daily Mail reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to his arrival in the U.K., Harry ignited a furious back-and-forth in the British media over whether Meghan Markle and their children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, would accompany him as originally announced.<\/p>\n

In this \u201cpsychodrama,\u201d as royal observers called it, Harry complained about not receiving the level of taxpayer-funded police security he wanted during his U.K. visit and appeared to threaten that his estranged father would not see Archie and Lilibet unless the monarch found a way to make the British Home Office give in to his demands. In the end, Meghan and the children traveled to the U.K. in secret\u00a0 and the Sussex family was granted a private audience with the king and Queen Camilla on July 10 at the king\u2019s Highgrove country estate.<\/p>\n

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Before and after that audience, Harry made several public appearances in London and in Birmingham on behalf of the 2027 Invictus Games and other charities he supports.<\/p>\n

But during his visit, the fifth in line to the British throne incited more controversy by lashing out publicly after a High Court judge delivered a devastating ruling in his lawsuit against the Daily Mail. The judge found that neither Harry, nor his six co-claimants, including singer Elton John, presented sufficient evidence to prove they had been the targets of illegal news-gathering practices by Daily Mail journalists 15 or more years ago. On July 7, the day Harry was supposed to spend the night at Buckingham Palace, he issued a\u00a0 statement, accusing the judge of his father\u2019s high court of engaging in an \u201cobvious white wash.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that week, it appears that Harry took his wife and children on a visit to Althorp, the country estate that is the ancestral home of Harry\u2019s late mother, Princess Diana. Last week, Meghan posted a series of images of the family\u2019s \u201csummer vacation\u201d which also showed them on a beach in Portugal, visiting Althorp and possibly touring the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n

Harry is due to return to London in September for a string of engagements centering around the annual WellChild Awards, The Sun reported. But Buckingham Palace staff are reportedly unhappy again about the idea of accommodating the duke.<\/p>\n

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There are several explanations for why Harry\u2019s stay at the palace has become contentious issue and why it fell through earlier this month. The first had to do with his failure to accept the invitation in a timely manner, after it had been extended weeks in advance, the Daily Mail reported. Harry failed to RSVP as requested by July 3. The next day, Harry said he wanted to accept the invitation but the king himself reportedly put his foot down and said he was too late, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n

While every effort had been made to facilitate Harry\u2019s stay, the Royal Household requires a minimum period of notice to ensure a royal residence can be staffed and prepared appropriately, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n

But Harry\u2019s team accused palace officials of reneging on the invitation because it didn\u2019t want him staying at Buckingham Palace on the night that the Daily Mail court judgement was announced. Royal experts have since affirmed this view, saying that royal aides would not want him using Buckingham Palace as a backdrop to issue his accusation that a High Court judge had engaged in a \u201cwhite wash.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Shuter reported that opposition by palace staff also played a key role in the original invitation being withdrawn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe king\u2019s biggest concern wasn\u2019t logistics\u2014it was his staff,\u201d a royal insider told Naughty But Nice. \u201cMany employees feel deeply hurt by what Harry has said about the royal family. They\u2019re fiercely loyal to the institution, and the king didn\u2019t want to force them into welcoming someone they believe betrayed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources told Shuter that the palace already is struggling to recruit and retain experienced employees, making staff morale a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe king wasn\u2019t just thinking about Harry,\u201d another inside told Shuter. \u201cHe was thinking about the people who keep the monarchy running every day. The last thing he wanted was staff refusing to help\u2014or worse, deciding to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, with Harry\u2019s September return approaching, insiders expect the same resistance, according to Shuter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe atmosphere would be incredibly uncomfortable,\u201d a source told Shuter. \u201cPeople will remain professional because that\u2019s their job, but don\u2019t mistake professionalism for forgiveness. Those are two very different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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‘The king may want Harry under his roof, but many of the people who work there don\u2019t,’ a palace insider says in a new report as Harry plans another visit to his home country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"\nBuckingham Palace staff don’t want Prince Harry staying there in September - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5712\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buckingham Palace staff don’t want Prince Harry staying there in September - 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