Even though Prince Harry was denied rooms at Buckingham Palace during his visit to London this week, and he suffered a catastrophic court defeat in his lawsuit against the Daily Mail, his “team” were desperately contacting reporters Wednesday to tease the possibility that his wife Meghan Markle could still come to the U.K. — and even bring along their young children, Archie and Lilibet, to enjoy a long-sought reunion with their grandfather, King Charles III.

Russell Myers, the royal editor for The Mirror, reported Wednesday that the Duke of Sussex is “frantically” trying to make the reunion happen with his estranged father, while royal sources told Myers that the 77-year-old king remains open to seeing his son and his wife in the next few days, despite his son’s recent “psychodrama” and alleged attempts to “emotionally blackmail” the monarch and the British public. Myers reported that Charles “remains hopeful” and has directed senior aides to reach out to Harry and Meghan to arrange a time for him to see his California-based grandchildren for the first time in four years, Myers reported.

But other prominent royal reporters, including Charlotte Griffiths of the Daily Mail, Kate Mansey of The Times and YouTuber Kinsey Schofield, have expressed doubts that Meghan would end up joining her husband this week, including at a highly anticipated Invictus Games event in Birmingham on Friday.

“Megan mysteriously disappears when Harry is going through difficult times,” Schofield said on the Mark Dolan Show Wednesday. “Meghan is MIA. She’s nowhere to be found.”

“Now that he’s lost his court case, “I don’t think she wants to be on the arm of a loser,” Schofield said bluntly.

Thus far, Harry has been solo during meetings and visits he’s made to hospitals in London and Birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday. Meghan was scheduled to accompany him to at least one of those events, People reported. She and Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, have reportedly been vacationing in Portugal, the New York Daily News reported.

Regarding the drama and “chaos” surrounding what was supposed to be Harry’s “redemption tour” of his home country, the 41-year-old duke spent the last several weeks upending what has been described as months of careful planning. Even after Harry’s team confirmed his plans to travel to the U.K. with Meghan and their children, the duke suddenly reversed course and railed against the fact that he would not be getting the automatic taxpayer-funded police security he wanted; he and Meghan lost this level of security six years ago when they quit being working members of the royal family and moved to the United States. Harry also lost a court battle in 2025 to have the security reinstated.

Even though Harry’s team leaked claims that he’s at risk for domestic terrorism attacks, some royal journalists suspect that his and Meghan’s demands about security have less to do with safety concerns than about the optics of looking like VIPs who travel with a large entourage of armed guards. Experts also say that Meghan probably looked forward to having a photo op with the king this week, but would want to stay away from the U.K. now after her husband suffered a stunning and “humiliating” “total” legal defeat in his case against the Daily Mail.

On The Sun’s Royal Exclusive YouTube show, Mansey pointed out that the duchess didn’t come to the U.K. earlier in the year when Harry testified in his case against the Daily Mail. “You know the question is whether she’ll want to be associated with this action at all, and given that he’s had such a defeat, I don’t think it’s good for her brand, is it?”

On The Mark Dolan Show Tuesday, Griffiths said: “I have to say, I don’t think she should have abandoned Harry in his day of need. You know, this has not been a good day for Harry. Would he want his wife by your side? Yes, probably.”

“If he’d won this case, she would be standing by his side, outside the courtroom, making a very impassioned speech with lots of world salad,” Griffiths continued.

Griffiths is one of the Daily Mail journalists whom Harry named in the lawsuit that he and six other claimants, including Sir Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley, bought against the newspaper. Harry accused Griffiths of illegal news-gathering some 15 years ago, while she said she got her information about him legitimately. She testified that she was once on friendly terms with him and moved in the same “leaky” social circles. She also provided evidence, in the form of chatty, friendly Facebook messages she exchanged with Harry in 2011-12. Her testimony and evidence were seen as instrumental in getting the judge to dismiss all of Harry’s 14 claims against the newspaper. Feeling vindicated Tuesday, Griffiths spoke out against Harry’s attempts to attack the free press and the reputations of hard-working journalists like herself.

In the Mark Dolan Show interview and in a stinging essay for the Daily Mail, Griffiths accused the king’s son of making false allegations against her. She also brought up his “party animal” reputation when he was in his 20s and described the then-third in line to the British throne as bawdy, fun-loving and less “pompous and entitled” than he is now.

“The Harry I met in 2011 was very different from the embittered figure we know today, who moans incessantly about his family’s privacy being invaded while making millions invading his family’s privacy,” Griffiths said, referring to Harry’s 2023 memoir “Spare.”

Meanwhile, on the Mark Dolan Show, Griffiths joined others in addressing Meghan’s travel plans. Griffiths mentioned reports that the duchess really wanted to visit the Althorp estate near Birmingham, the ancestral home of the late Princess Diana where she also is buried. People online have speculated that Meghan wants to be filmed visiting Diana’s grave, possibly for a future documentary or to be seen associating her personal brand with her husband’s beloved mother, who was killed in a car crash in 1997.

“That’s why we’re getting this narrative again from the Sussex camp that she’s coming to the UK but not to London,” Griffiths said.

But Schofield said more definitively: “I predicted that we might see her (in the U.K.) if he won (his Daily Mail case) and we would not see her if he he didn’t.” In describing the way Meghan tends to be “MIA” when “times are tough” for Harry, Schofield said the duchess did nothing publicly to help him during his challenging promotional tour for his controversial memoir.

In “Spare,” Harry revealed private information about his royal relatives. He also shared private information about himself — such as how he lost his virginity, suffered an embarrassing case of frostbite and developed a fixation on his mother’s use of Elizabeth Arden hand cream. The hand cream story became a punchline for late-night comics.

“When you think about how Jimmy Kimmel was tearing into him over ‘Spare’ as he’s trying to promote the book, where was Meghan?” Schofield asked.

“Where was Meghan when Harry lost his RAVEC case? When he sat down and was reaming the royal family to the BBC?” Schofield continued. She was referring to the angry, off-the-rails interview Harry gave to the BBC in May 2025 after he lost the appellate court case regarding the decision made by the Home Office committee, known as RAVEC, to not grant him automatic police security. In the interview, Harry made incendiary claims against his family, even as he spoke of wanting to reconcile with them.

“When Harry’s having a difficult time, she doesn’t want to be involved,” Schofield said. For that reason, she doubts Meghan will be seen this week, even as The Mirror continued to report that Charles doesn’t want to pass up the chance of seeing his grandchildren.

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