Harry snubbed as he's nowhere to be seen in landmark new BBC documentary
Prince Harry is nowhere to be seen in a brand new landmark documentary about King Charles' Coronation - despite attending the event.
The BBC documentary Charles III: The Coronation Year will be screened on Boxing Day and shows unseen behind-the-scenes footage of the Royal Family in the King's Coronation year. It's set to show rehearsals for the Coronation as well as what went on on the historic day back in May.
Despite having a seriously rocky relationship with his father the King, Harry did fly to London from his home in California to be present at Westminster Abbey to see his dad crowned. He sat in the congregation alongside some of his other relatives - but after the ceremony immediately flew back home to wife Meghan Markle and their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
Prince Harry in Westminster Abbey during the Coronation (Getty Images)But despite his attendance, according to The Telegraph, Harry does not feature on screen. It comes as neither he nor Prince William took part in on-screen interviews for the documentary, although it is believed William's household wanted the focus to remain on his father in his Coronation year.
One royal who is featured heavily in the programme is Princess Anne, who was interviewed as part of it. In it, Charles' sister sheds light on their late mother the Queen's final days before her death at Balmoral in September 2022.
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She reveals how the former monarch felt it would be "difficult" if she died at Balmoral but was persuaded to step back from the "decision-making process". The former monarch's only daughter says it was “serendipity” she was at Balmoral before her mother’s death and she “weirdly felt a sense of relief” when the Imperial State Crown was removed from her coffin – symbolic of her role passing to Charles.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are seen on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the flypast during the Coronation (Getty Images)Speaking about her mother the late Queen, Anne says in the documentary: “I think there was a moment when she felt that it would be more difficult if she died at Balmoral. And I think we did try and persuade her that that shouldn’t be part of the decision-making process.” She concludes with a laugh: “So I hope she felt that that was right in the end because I think we did.”
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died peacefully at Balmoral in Scotland on September 8 last year, aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. It appears at the end of her life the late Queen was still concerned with duty and others, not wanting her passing in Scotland to cause added issues for those implementing London Bridge – the codename for the arrangements for her lying in state, vigils and a grand state funeral.
Different plans were in place if the Queen had died at any one of her main royal residences, from Sandringham to Windsor Castle, and even overseas, with the arrangements for Scotland given the codename Operation Unicorn.
Anne also tells the documentary: “My mother’s funeral in St George’s, he takes the crown off the coffin – I rather weirdly felt a sense of relief, somehow that’s it, finished. That responsibility being moved on.” At that moment crown jeweller Mark Appleby removed the crown, sceptre and orb from Queen Elizabeth’s coffin before it was lowered into the royal vault as the royal family watched.
Charles III: The Coronation Year will be screened on Boxing Day at 6.50pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
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