Prince Harry snubbed with seating at King Charles' coronation
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Prince Harry has been demoted to a third-row seat at his father King Charles III’s historic coronation at Westminster Abbey.
Harry, 38, will be seated in the third row between his cousin Princess Eugenie’s husband, Jack Brooksbank, and Princess Alexandra, a cousin of his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, The Post has learned.
The front row is reserved for full-time working royals, and will include Harry’s estranged brother, Prince William, 40, and sister-in-law, Catherine, Princess of Wales, 41.
William, as the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, is expected to kneel and swear loyalty to his father, while Harry will merely be a spectator.
The Duke of Sussex is expected to be wearing a morning suit for the historic occasion.
“Harry didn’t push for a seat up front and he didn’t push to wear his military uniform,” a source told The Post.
In addition to Britain’s first coronation since 1953, Saturday’s ceremony marks the first time Harry will be face-to-face with his family since the debut of his bombshell memoir, “Spare,” in January.
He and his wife, Meghan Markle, have been largely estranged from the royals since they decamped to California in 2020.
Meghan, 41, opted to skip the coronation and is remaining at the couple’s Montecito estate to mark son Archie’s fourth birthday.
Harry, meanwhile, flew into London on a commercial flight early Friday.
He did not see his father at Buckingham Palace, and instead headed directly to his and Meghan’s Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage.
He is expected to board a return flight just two hours after the ceremony.
Two days ahead of the coronation, one of King Charles’ close friends blasted the flame-haired prince’s behavior in recent months, calling the confessions in “Spare” “the cruelest.”
“Well, in respect of Prince Harry, I just think it’s the most tragic [situation],” Lord Nicholas Soames told Times Radio.
Despite this, Soames said “it would have been a great pity” if Harry skipped his father’s coronation altogether.
“This is the day about the king and the queen [Camilla], not about Prince Harry,” he insisted.
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