Queen Consort Camilla is reportedly set to invite her two children to Sandringham for Christmas for the first time.
Senior members of the Royal Family will be spending the festive period together this weekend while Prince Harry, 38, his wife Meghan Markle, 41, and their two children Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, enjoy the big day at their home in the US.
While usually an annual tradition, 25 December in Norfolk is set to be the first time the family have been able to spend Christmas together like this since the start of the pandemic. It will also be their first without Queen Elizabeth, who passed away on 8 September.
Camilla, 75, is reportedly set to invite her two eldest children Tom, 48, and Laura, 44, to the gathering in Sandringham for the first time, too, while 74 year old King Charles' youngest son will be absent.
A source told The Sun: "Camilla is keen that her family are at the heart of Christmas, particularly as Charles won’t have his youngest son there."
Describing this Christmas as an "extremely important" one following the death of Charles' mum the Queen, they continued: “During last Christmas the family were desperately trying to sort out Prince Andrew and his sex abuse case and then there was the incident with the intruder carrying a crossbow at Windsor Castle."
They added: “We saw the togetherness at the Princess of Wales’s carol concert this week and Christmas will be held in the same spirit.”
Harry and Meghan's absence this year comes after the couple made a series of bombshell claims in their Netflix docuseries, which aired its final three episodes on Thursday last week.
Among the many accusations, Prince Harry claimed his brother William, 40, "screamed" at him during a meeting with the family over his and Meghan's future in the Firm.
The meeting, which took place in Sandringham in January 2020, was called for after Meghan returned to the US to be with the couple's son.
"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren't true, and my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there, and sort of take it all in," Harry recalled in the series.
"It was clear they planned it so you weren't in the room," Harry told Meghan. "I was not invited to have a seat at the table," she added.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry showed footage from their “freedom flight” to the US, Meghan addressed her strained relationship with her father, and they spoke out on their lawsuit against Associated Newspapers.
Now, it's been reported Meghan and Harry are said to want an apology from the Royal Family as a source told The Sunday Times: "100 per cent yes they’d like to have a meeting.”
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