Prince Harry and Meghan Markle WERE given invite to Abbestead Estate owners wedding, according to Sussex source

This week, questions have been asked over who will be attending the high society wedding of the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, to Olivia Henson at Chester Cathedral next June.

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It has been previously claimed that the Duke of Westminster did not invite the Sussex’s out of loyalty to the King and the future King, Prince William, causing a stir, not least because the Duke of Sussex and Hugh Grosvenor are childhood friends.

However, the New York-based celebrity gossip site Page Six is reporting that Harry and Meghan did recieve a ‘save the date’. Their source claims this prompted the prince to phone Grosvenor and tell him it would be 'too awkward' for him and Meghan to attend.

It would have been the first meeting between Meghan and Kate, Princess of Wales, since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth in September 2022, and since the release of Omid Scobie’s controversial book Endgame.

Who is Hugh Grosvenor?

Hugh Grosvenor became the 7th Duke of Westminster and Britain’s youngest billionaire, after inheriting his title at the age of 25 when his father Gerald died in August 2016.

Read tributes to Gerald Grosvenor here

Much of his fortune is tied up in property, among which is the 23,000 acre Abbeystead Estate near Lancaster.

The former Duke considered the estate his part-time home, and suffered a heart attack while walking in the Trough of Bowland. He died shortly afterwards at the Royal Preston Hospital in Preston.