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The Duke and will join at a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral next week to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee - and Prince Andrew will be there too, it emerged today.
The LA-based couple will honour the monarch's seven decades on the throne on Friday, June 3, alongside Her Majesty's children, grandchildren and her older great-grandchildren.
will also make a rare public appearance at St Paul's for the first time since his father Prince Philip's memorial service in March, , where he was brought in from the cold to support his mother as she walked in and out of Westminster Abbey.
He is said to be visiting his mother daily at Windsor since he settled the multi-million dollar case brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex slaves.
But the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Duke of York will not be joining other royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony at the Trooping the Colour that kicks off the Queen's platinum jubilee celebrations next Thursday.
Only senior serving royals such as Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince William are invited.
24 hours later the eyes of the world will be on the Sussexes at St Paul's, because it will be the first time the couple will be surrounded by such a large number of Windsors since their wedding at St George's Windsor in 2018.
Harry has hardly seen his father and brother since they emigrated to California, and Meghan has not seen them at all.
Since quitting as frontline royals, they have used Oprah, US TV news stations and friendly podcasts to fire transatlantic potshots at the Royal Family, including claims one senior member was racist and that Buckingham Palace aides ignored Meghan when she was suicidal while pregnant.
Harry also accused Prince Charles of cutting him off financially and royal experts claim he 'can't stand' his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who he failed to publicly congratulate on being named a future Queen consort when the Prince of Wales becomes king.
But the Sussexes eldest son Archie, three, and piknik garden indonesia daughter Lilibet, who turns one on Saturday, are unlikely to attend the service of celebration, with only the eldest great-grandchildren expected to attend.
Prince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, seven, are expected to be with their parents alongside cousin Mia Tindall, also eight.
The Queen's presence is expected but a decision may be left to the 11th hour due to her ongoing mobility issues.
At the Chelsea Flower Show this week, she was swept around in a new royal buggy. But with the steps at St Paul's being exceptionally steep, liburan palace aides have plans for her to make her way in through a side entrance, without being photographed if necessary, to help maintain the monarch's dignity.
The royals will arrive at St Paul's from 11am as Great Paul, the cathedral's gigantic main bell, peeling until the service begins as the Queen sits.
It will be broadcast live on BBC1.
It will contain some of Her Majesty's most-loved bible readings, prayers and hymns, coming to a crescendo with a new anthem by Judith Weir, the Master of the Queen's Music. The composition will set new music to words from the third chapter of the book of Proverbs.
It came as Meghan wasbegged by her estranged half-sister Samantha Markle to stop 'watching and doing nothing' after their father Thomas was rushed to hospital after he suffered a stroke. It scuppers Mr Markle's plans to visit London for the jubilee, where he is reported to have said to have wanted to go to Windsor to demand his daughter, Harry and their two children come out to meet him following years of estrangement.
He was due to stay with Lady Colin Campbell at her stately home in West Sussex, and planned to attend Royal Ascot.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle visit the sitting volleyball section of the fifth edition of the Invictus Games in The Hague, shortly after a secret visit to the Queen in Windsor.
The couple will be at Her Majesty's Jubilee
Next Friday will be the first time the Sussexes, the Cambridges and the Prince of Wales and Camilla (pictured at the Commonwealth Day Service in 2020) have been together in public for years
The Queen (pictured at Chelsea this week) has not invited the Sussexes to the Buckingham Palace balcony the day before
Prince Andrew, 62, will also join his mother at the Platinum Jubilee service next Friday, making a rare public appearance.
He supported her at the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey on March 29
It is not known whether Meghan, who is estranged from her father Thomas Markle (together), is planning to go to his bedside after he suffered a stroke
A special Platinum Jubilee Service to mark the Queen's seven decades on the throne will be held at St Paul's Cathedral next Friday
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