Prince Harry attended Kevin Costner’s charity concert alone after Meghan Markle was reportedly feeling “sick.” The Duke of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 honored a Santa Barbara helicopter pilot at the One805Live! concert held at Costner’s oceanside estate in California.
The event drew several A-listers, including Jeff Bridges, Rob Lowe, and Pink, all there to celebrate the heroism of first responders. Last year, both Harry and Meghan attended the same event, and many hoped to see her there again. However, a source confirmed to The Mirror that “the word is that she is sick and could not make it.”
Prince Harry is expected to head to New York this weekend for several events, including the Diana Awards and a gathering hosted by the Halo Trust, an organization closely associated with his late mother, Princess Diana.
At the One805 concert, where he presented an award to local helicopter pilot Loren Courtney, Harry, dressed in a navy blue suit and light blue shirt, humorously remarked that both he and Courtney felt more at ease behind the controls of a helicopter than onstage. The Duke arrived at the event around 7 PM.
Additionally, Harry will return to the UK later this month to attend the annual WellChild Awards in his capacity as the charity’s patron. This national charity, which supports seriously ill children, is one of the few UK-based organizations he has maintained ties with following his departure from royal duties and move to the U.S.
Despite stepping back from most royal patronages at his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s request, he chose to retain the WellChild position, which he has held for 16 years. There was no mention of his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍, accompanying him on these trips.
According to some reports she has vowed never to set foot in the UK again, and when she flew into the UK earlier this year when the couple visited Nigeria she didn’t even set foot outside the airport.
On Monday the Daily Mail revealed that Harry may travel to the UK to attend the awards, after both Buckingham and Kensington Palace’s chose to wish him happy 40th birthday on their social media channels.
With the King currently based in Scotland but returning to London regularly for his ongoing cancer treatment, it could give an opportunity for father and son to actually meet in private.
However the King has a major engagement in Scotland just two days before Harry’s when he and Queen Camilla visit the Scottish Parliament to mark its 25th anniversary.
This suggests he could well remain north of the border while his son is in the country.
The last time they saw each other was in February when it was announced that the King had cancer and the prince flew from the US to see him briefly.
Earlier this week, Harry and Meghan also stressed how voting is a ‘fundamental way to influence communities’ and make a ‘more equitable world’ as they issued a new statement ahead of the US election.
The Duke and Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍, who live in Montecito, California, stamped Public Elector Enrollment Day yesterday by getting the Archewell group to participate in a letter-composing action.
The Archewell site framed how the couple’s staff utilized ‘Vote Forward’s significant letter-composing apparatus’ to urge unregistered electors to cast a ballot in the official political decision in November.
The assertion read: ‘Casting a ballot isn’t simply a right; it’s a major method for impacting the destiny of our networks.
‘At The Archewell Establishment, we perceive that metro commitment, regardless of one’s ideological group, is at the core of an additional fair and impartial world.
‘By taking part in drives like this, we expect to enhance the message that each voice matters.’
