King Charles' coronation program features a photograph with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

• King Charles’ coronation memento program features a photograph with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
• The photograph was taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson for Charles’ seventieth birthday in November 2018.
• Jackson beforehand instructed Insider that the household portrait captures a “beautiful, relaxed second.”

The official memento program for King Charles III’s coronation includes a 2018 royal household portrait that features Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, The Impartial reported.

Getty Pictures royal photographer Chris Jackson took the portrait in honor of Charles’ seventieth birthday. The photograph, launched in November 2018, options Charles and Camilla sitting on a bench within the gardens of Clarence Home surrounded by Harry and Meghan in addition to Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their three youngsters: Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.

Within the candid second, Camilla directed Charlotte to take a look at the digital camera as George laughed on Charles’ knee. Meghan may also be seen laughing.

Jackson beforehand instructed Insider that the photograph was “an honor to take.”

“I like this explicit second the place the household are clearly having fun with themselves and it is only a beautiful, relaxed second,” he stated.

Whereas the royal household appeared glad and relaxed within the photograph, experiences had already began rising by then about tensions between Meghan and Harry and different royal relations. The identical month the portrait was launched, Harry and Meghan introduced their plans to relocate to Frogmore Cottage on the grounds of Windsor Fortress, 18 miles away from Kensington Palace the place that they had lived near William and Kate.

 The Day by day Telegraph, citing two sources, additionally reported in November 2018 that Meghan had left Kate in tears the week of the royal wedding ceremony in a dispute over Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid’s gown. Meghan later stated in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 that it was Kate who had made her cry, not the opposite means round, and that she had apologized.

Buckingham Palace introduced that Harry will attend Charles’ coronation with out Meghan and their youngsters, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The coronation falls on the identical day as Archie’s 4th birthday, which royal writer Omid Scobie stated “performed an element within the couple’s resolution” for Meghan to remain behind with him and Lilibet. 

The inclusion of Harry and Meghan within the coronation program could point out additional reconciliation with the royal household for the reason that launch of their Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan” and Harry’s tell-all memoir, “Spare.” Along with inviting Harry and Meghan to the coronation, Charles additionally spoke of the “immense satisfaction” each William and Harry would have in cadets on the Royal Navy Academy Sandhurst in a speech on April 14, Insider’s Maria Noyen reported.

The 84-page official memento program retails for £10 ($12.42), the proceeds from which assist the Armed Forces charity SSAFA in addition to Royal Assortment Belief, based on The Impartial.