{"id":37155,"date":"2025-04-21T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/37155\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:14:09","slug":"meghan-markles-key-reason-for-missing-royal-easter-event-royals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/37155\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle’s key reason for missing Royal Easter event – Royals – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle did not participate in the Royal Family’s Easter celebrations in Windsor due to a significant reason. In 2019, which marked the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s last year as active members of the Royal Family, Prince Harry<\/a> attended the Easter Sunday service alone, while Meghan – who has reportedly offered an olive branch to King Charles amid reports her relationship with the Royal Family is at the point of crisis<\/a> – was absent.<\/p>\n

The Duke, aged 40, was seen with other Royal Family members, including the then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (now known as the Prince and Princess of Wales), but Meghan – who recently provided a glimpse of her daughter, Lillibet, in a rare video<\/a> – was noticeably absent. The primary reason for Meghan’s absence was her advanced pregnancy with their first child during the April 2019 service.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, on May 6, Prince Archie was born. The couple, whom a revealing new book claims are in crisis<\/a>, decided to step down from their Royal duties in early 2020 and relocated to the US shortly after.<\/p>\n

The previous year, just weeks before their wedding in Windsor, both Harry and Meghan were missing from the Easter celebrations.<\/p>\n

As reported by HELLO!, the couple chose to skip the Easter Sunday service in 2018 because they wanted to celebrate the annual holiday privately.<\/p>\n

The service is reportedly optional for the royals, and the pair desired a respite from public attention at that time.<\/p>\n

The 2018 service would have been Meghan’s inaugural celebration with the Royal Family. Although their relationship was publicly announced in 2017, Meghan and Harry started dating the year before.<\/p>\n

The Easter Sunday service was not held in 2020 or 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it resumed as planned in April 2022.<\/p>\n

Residing in California<\/a> for the last five years, Harry and Meghan did not participate in the service in 2022, 2023, or 2024.<\/p>\n

As their parents did not return to the UK for the yearly holiday, their two children – Prince Archie, five, and three year old Princess Lilibet – have not celebrated Easter with their Royal family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle did not participate in the Royal Family’s Easter celebrations in Windsor due to a significant reason.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,3751,21363,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-37155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-easter","12":"tag-easter-service","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114373542774804193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}