Charles III offered accommodation to the Duke of Sussex, but he chose to stay in a hotel

The king Charles III authorized the duke of sussex to stay at an official residence of the royal family during his trip to the United Kingdom last week, although Enrique finally opted to stay in a hotel, as revealed this Sunday by ‘The Sunday Times’.

The Sunday newspaper indicates that the monarch accepted a request from his youngest son to be able to stay in one of the numerous homes owned by the royal family, since he no longer has any official residence after having renounced his functions as an active member of the monarchy of this country in 2020 to go live USA.

The visit of Enrique to London on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games – the sports competition for war veterans injured in conflict – generated all kinds of speculation and contradictory versions since during those three days the duke did not see his father, who receives currently being treated for an undisclosed cancer.

As a spokesperson for Enrique suggested last Tuesday, the meeting did not take place due to the monarch’s “full schedule.” The duke also did not coincide with his older brother, the heir to the throne and Prince of Wales, William, nor with his sister-in-law, Catherine, who is also receiving chemotherapy for another unspecified cancer.

The lack of a meeting gave rise to all kinds of conjecture. According to the king’s friends, if Enrique had stayed in one of the many royal residences, as his father had authorized, this would have facilitated the logistics of arranging a meeting. with Carlos III, who has resumed his official agenda despite the illness.

‘The Sunday Times’ also indicates that those close to Enrique claim that the prince did send a request to meet the king well in advance.

Contradicting this version, friends of the monarch maintain, according to the newspaper, that Enrique neither asked to see his father nor invited him to attend the service that was held last Tuesday at the San Pablo’s cathedral in London to mark the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games.

During the past week, the sovereign attended a party held in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace, in London, last Wednesday; He held his weekly audience with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and undertook a military engagement in Wilthshire on Thursday.

“Everything is very sad. While it is true that the king is understandably cautious about meeting Henry, given the circus of publicity that seems to surround all these visits, he did, of course, agree to see his son at the most vulnerable moment of his illness (the last February) and with very little notice,” a friend of Carlos recalled to the newspaper.

These sources are skeptical about the possibility that on this last occasion the king did not want to see Enrique: “Although I wasn’t going to roll out the red carpet for him when the Invictus trip was announced, and with doctors advising him to focus on his treatment and recovery, the idea that he has refused to make room in his schedule… Let’s say, one “Once again, the versions differ.”