Queen Elizabeth’s Plans ‘Cannot Be Moved’ for Harry and Meghan, Palace Source

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Queen Elizabeth may struggle to meet Prince Harry and Meghan Markle when they visit the U.K. next month as the aging monarch has an exceptionally busy week at the beginning of September and, sources at Buckingham Palace said, “Some things cannot be moved.”

Sources at Buckingham Palace told The Daily Beast that while there was no intention to steer expectations one way or the other around Harry and Meghan getting or not getting an audience with the queen, it is a simple fact that the week commencing September 5 is jam-packed with constitutional duties for the queen.

Harry and Meghan are expected to be in the U.K. twice in September: for the One Young World 2022 Summit in Manchester on Sept. 5, and again on Sept. 8 at the WellChild Awards. In between these dates they will be at an Invictus Games event in Düsseldorf. They are expected to stay at their Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage, but this has not been confirmed.

The most public of the queen’s duties that week is to hold an audience with Britain’s new prime minister on September 6, and invite them to form a government. While this is not in itself a particularly lengthy meeting, the queen, who is known for her assiduous work ethic, will demand extensive briefing notes to prepare for her meeting with the new PM (likely to be right-winger Liz Truss) and would be unlikely to welcome trifling domestic distractions as she prepares to anoint the woman who might, conceivably, be her last prime minister. She is likely to want to spend a considerable amount of time after the formal activity reflecting on the meeting with advisers, and recording it in her private diaries.

And if the queen seems to have gone a little cooler on the prospect of a meet-up, who could blame her? The last time he met his grandmother, Harry told Hoda Kotb all about it in an NBC Today interview, saying that his grandmother had a habit of telling him secrets she wouldn’t tell any other member of the family and that he had been checking she had the “right people” around her as if he were her guardian.

Few people like having their private conversations discussed on telly, especially when it implies other family members are incompetent or uncaring, and especially when they are the queen. Once bitten, the queen might be twice shy.

So the fact that this is the week chosen by Harry and Meghan for their visit might perhaps give the palace a convenient mechanism to pass on a meeting.

There will be no such easy reasons to explain away any failure by Harry to meet his brother.

As a vivid example of just how bad the feud between William and Harry now is, consider this: Despite the fact that their houses will be less than half a mile apart, with William moving to Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor estate in the coming weeks and Harry and Meghan expected to stay at Frogmore Cottage, the brothers reportedly have “no plans” to see each other when Harry and Meghan come to the U.K. next month.

The Daily Telegraph made the astonishing “no plans to see the Cambridges” claim in a report published Monday…