Prince
Harry
returned to Montecito -in California, United States- and was able to celebrate the birthday of Archie, his eldest son, who went to bed later thanks to the Coronation of a king grandfather who he only saw twice in his life.
The Duke of Sussex, his father, was at the
Coronation of King Charles III in Westminster Abbey
, thanks to the mediation of one of the protagonists of the ceremony: the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who placed the heavy crown of St Edward on his head.
King Charles asked this former banker and highest authority of the Anglican church to be the mediator so that Harry, his second son and fifth in the line of succession, was at the ceremony.
Welby is very important to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
He was the one who
converted Meghan to Anglicanism
and helped to reconcile the couple's wedding ceremony in 2018, with the traditions of the Windsors and the angelic and suffering Gospels of the American Blacks.
They became friends and now, accomplices in a difficult negotiation for reconciliation.
It was the archbishop who suggested that forgiving and reconciling is the mission of the head of the Anglican church, as is now the king.
Prince Harry, during his father's coronation ceremony.
Photo: Reuters
In the long list of dignitaries in the medieval Westminster Abbey who said goodbye to the Royals, were the Archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops.
When he said goodbye to Harry, he said with a smile: "Best of luck
.
"
And Harry replied with a knowing smile: "Thank you very much
.
"
She then left in a black BMW, in a jacquet, in police custody to the Windsor Lounge at Heathrow airport, to return on a British Airways commercial plane to Los Angeles.
The extraordinary Gospel that they sang at the coronation seemed like
a gesture of love and recognition from the King
, in complicity with the Archbishop and Princess Kate, his rebellious son and his mixed-race wife.
With the Royals you just have to interpret the gestures.
"Never explain, never complain"
(Never explain, never complain) is his mantra.
Straight to Los Angeles
When the king was taking the official photos,
his son Harry had already embarked for the United States
.
He had been in Britain for 24 hours and 48 minutes.
His presence was not minor.
Very little but one more step for one of the king's great challenges in this new monarchy, which reassembled the family of his wife, the new queen Camila, but was unable to unite
her two children
.
William and Kate, the future kings, do not speak to Harry and Meghan.
Harry, outside Westminster Abbey, after the ceremony.
Photo: Reuters
The first and fifth in the line of succession
did not speak or look at each other
in medieval Westminster Abbey.
Reconciliation is far.
William played a major role, wearing his Order of the Garter cloak, the highest royal decoration, affirming his allegiance to his father and new king.
He is the heir.
Harry, his brother, who decided to leave the Royal Family to make his life in the face of the inconsequentialness to which they had been destined and after a brutal fight with William, officially because of Meghan's behavior, had been relegated to the third row of the
abbey
, along with the non-working Royal Family.
The red feathers on Princess Anne's Royal Marines Commandant hat probably didn't let her see the whole ceremony.
But at least they hadn't relegated him to the Siberia of the Abbey, they were all together.
Edward and Sophie, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and siblings to the King,
greeted him warmly
.
Princess Anne spoke with him and openly criticized the Slim monarchy that her brother wants to impose.
Zara Tindall, his cousin, and her husband were delighted to see him.
Peter Philips, Anne's son, greeted him warmly.
It was a reunion of cousins, affectionate and the most fun that could be in such a sumptuous setting.
without uniform
Harry was
prohibited from wearing the military uniform
, although he is along with Prince Andrew, an Afghanistan war veteran.
He had chosen
a three-piece Christian Dior jacquet
, designed by Kin Jones, and black shoes.
"You look very elegant," a lady wearing a hat encouraged him before the six-foot red-haired prince, who, unlike the others, entered the Abbey alone.
Harry did not wear a military uniform at the ceremony.
Photo: Reuters
Harry smiled knowingly, waving and smiling to those he recognized, and accepted the page's directions to sit next to his cousins Eugenie, Bearice, their husbands, and David Lindley, son of Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, in The abbey.
The BBC cameras, which distributed the images to the whole world,
did not once show a direct image of Harry or Prince Andrew
, both of whom were banned.
The palace had the ability to censor the images and was harshly criticized by the British television media, which received the leaked images.
But Harry pronounced his accession to the king and at the end of the ceremony,
bowed his head in respect
, when his father and the queen passed in front of him, without looking at him.
Did Harry repeat the people's homage, as did most of the congregation, that so irritated his father?
Impossible to say: the abbey cameras, perhaps deliberately, did not capture him at the time.
Nor did they show it when the archbishop first crowned his father and then Camilla, his stepmother, whom he recently described in his autobiography as "
dangerous" and "villainous
. "
Harry's absence from the processions, carriages, balcony and official photos made millions of viewers, and perhaps the duke himself, see just how much he has sacrificed for his new life in the Pacific.
But he shows the king how hard he must work so that the Royal Family continues to be paid without protest by his subjects, whom he comes "to serve" and "to be served".
For young people up to 30 years old, the
popular ones in the Royal Family are Kate, William, Harry and Meghan
.
to come or not to come
The arrival at the Coronation did not depend on the Sussexes but on the courtiers, who did not make it clear if they were invited or not and if Princes Archie and Lilibet were included.
A series of emails between the palace and them established the rules:
the boys were not included.
For this reason, Meghan decided to stay in California.
She wanted to celebrate her son's birthday and not feel the discomfort and isolation of recent visits.
Harry is still a councilor of state and as the king's son, by protocol he had to be at his father's coronation on the most important day of his life.
But Meghan has already turned the page:
I don't want to be a disinherited Royal again
.
The Duke of Sussex was invited to the family lunch at Buckingham Palace.
But he rejected it.
There would be William and Kate and it was too risky a move to ruin his father's day of glory.
At least he had done what he had to do:
be there and honor him
.
He was photographed smiling broadly as he arrived at the Windsor suite at Heathrow airport, ahead of his British Airways flight to Los Angeles.
He was still in his jacket and wearing his medals.
He changed in the suite, after greeting those who came to congratulate him with a wide smile.
He arrived in Los Angeles and a black van took him in two hours to Montecito, to his son's party, where they saw his grandfather be crowned on television.
London. Correspondent.
