A few weeks ago, courtiers from both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace rushed to announce and spin the news about the Sussex family’s visit to the UK. My theory is that the palaces learned of the visit through Harry’s formal request for security through RAVEC, where he officially has to give 28-days notice. While that remains the most likely scenario, it’s also possible that King Charles rushed to confirm the Sussexes’ visit because it was clear that Harry intended to visit Althorp, the ancestral home of the Spencer family, and the estate where his mother is buried. Both the Mail and People Magazine had stories about Althorp closing down for two days in July, and there was a widespread assumption that the Sussexes will spend the first days of their UK visit with the Earl Spencer. Well, now the Sun is confirming it, I guess.
Prince Harry will take Archie and Lilibet to see gran Diana’s grave for the first time when they visit the UK next month. The poignant trip to Althorp House, Northants, will take place days after what would have been her 65th birthday.
A stand-off over UK security for US-based Harry means his kids, seven and five, have never seen Di’s resting place. Harry’s two young children will see the grave of the grandmother they never had the chance to know.
Harry was 12 and his mum Princess Diana just 36 when she died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. She was buried on an island at her ancestral home Althorp House in Northamptonshire.
Harry has visited her resting place several times and regularly sends bouquets of flowers to be placed by her grave. He took wife Meghan in 2022 but their kids Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, have yet to see it.
Reportedly, Althorp will be closed to visitors on July 10 & 11, a Friday and a Saturday. My prediction? That’s the first leg of their visit, some private time with Harry’s uncle and aunts, and yes, taking the kids to see Diana’s grave. After that, Birmingham and London for Harry and Meghan’s work events, and they’ll possibly stay at one of the royal properties in London. And from there, IDK, maybe Sandringham? Who knows. I’ve seen some people question why the Sun is already publishing the Sussexes’ alleged schedule and whether or not this is an attempt to create a huge circus at Althorp. Like… Althorp is an enormous estate and I’m sure the Earl Spencer is taking precautions. The Sun isn’t even breaking this news, it had been widely rumored for a week prior. I’m not worried about Althorp. I’m worried about the Sussexes’ safety once they leave Althorp, because the British tabloids are going to continue to put a huge target on their backs.
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- Prince Harry departs The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Tuesday 8 April, 2025 after attending the start of a two day hearing to appeal the decision over his security access at the Appeals Court.,Image: 985133598, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng/Avalon
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- Earl Spencer at the unveiling of a statue of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, on what would have been her 60th birthday. Picture date: Thursday July 1, 2021. .,Image: 619024591, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- The Duke of Sussex with his uncle Earl Spencer, at the unveiling of a statue of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, on what would have been her 60th birthday.,Image: 619146847, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Dominic Lipinski / Avalon
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- Prince Harry departs The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Tuesday 8 April, 2025 after attending the start of a two day hearing to appeal the decision over his security access at the Appeals Court.,Image: 985133620, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng/Avalon
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- Guests arrive to attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London Featuring: Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer Where: London, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Guests arrive to attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London Featuring: Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer Where: London, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2024 Credit: Cover Images
I’ve always loved those pictures of Diana in yellow and Harry in red. She is effortlessly stylish and so obviously in love with her boy … he is a cherub, sweet and innocent.
It must mean a lot to Harry to share this experience with his children, knowing how much these babies would have meant to his mother. Can you imagine Di with her American grandchildren frolicking on a California beach?
I believe that memories do not live in graveyards. But Harry should be able to bring his children to his mother’s grave whenever it feels right to him. I want for them a peaceful undisturbed private time.
I think the whole island is a shrine to Diana.
I’m but a middle class commoner in the US (lol), my dad’s parents died when I was 5 and 6, so I never really knew them. However I went with my dad starting at a young age (and my brother even younger) when he would go tend to the gravesites (right after Memorial Day, weeding, putting in new flowers – usually marigolds which I learned were my grandma’s favorite) and my dad would tell me about his parents as we worked. In that way I grew up feeling like I knew my grandparents and I love that.
Graphinya- that’s beautiful! I hadn’t really thought before about how security concerns make it difficult for Harry to have that experience with his children.
Why is this front page news? (rhetorical)
And this is why they need robust security when they’re in the UK. IMO the police are going to be called to Althorp or wherever the Sussex family is because of derangers and BM reporters, photographers, etc. So instead of a planned diversion of resources, the UK is going to get this circus instead.
I had assumed this would be a major purpose of the trip in the first place. It’s not hard to figure it out.
Putting her grave on an island on her family’s estate where the public can SEE it but not get to it was the smartest thing they could have done. I’m happy that Harry/William and the Spencers have the opportunity to visit it privately like this.
That headline is appalling… Harry will take his kids to “the” grave??? Make no mistake, this is a threat, and it sounds like encouraging violence against Harry and his family. Absolutely unacceptable
It is Diana’s grave. What else are they supposed to call it?
IMO it’s a play on words that is quite obvious to an English speaker and exactly the kind of dangerous inference that British tabloids specialize in. See also: Straight Outta Compton and countless other examples involving the Sussexes that appear aimed at dancing along the edge of hate speech.
Maybe I’m the only person seeing it?
If you read it as di=the or di=d!e, which is the intent, the headline reads as threatening. The headline continues the Sun’s long and dubious history of being gawd awful. The Murdoch’s are the dregs of humanity.
It says “Di” grave, not “the” grave.
I get what you’re saying though. Doesn’t sound great either way.
Lady Esther, I had the same thought. The tabloids love a play on words and you can’t unsee it.
I look forward to the endless articles about how it’s unhealthy to take children to gravesites.
(I’m from an Irish-Catholic family. I started going to funerals and cemeteries as a toddler. It’s part of life.)
Also from an Irish Catholic family on my dad’s side, and as I said above, my brother and I went to the grandparents’ graves every year. It wasn’t traumatizing to help Dad do some minor maintenance and plant marigolds as he told us about his mom and dad. It was actually pretty great.
Atp, I wonder if the kids will spend a night or two Althprpe and then leave the uk. If there’s not protection for them, even doing that is a risk now.
My God, how sad. So glad Meghan will be there to comfort Harry and the children.