EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Young royals not invited to Coronation despite attending previous big events

They have been welcome guests at every major royal occasion throughout their lives, but a generation of Windsors are surprised to find they have not been invited to the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla.

I can announce that the grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth’s cousins ​​- including Lady Amelia Windsor, who was named the ‘Most Beautiful Member of the Royal Family’ by Tatler magazine, and the King’s godson, Lord Nicholas Windsor – will not be in attendance on Saturday. Westminster Abbey will be. .

And friends claim that some of them are “furious” at the stupidity. “They can’t understand why they weren’t invited when they were invited to every other state function,” a friend tells me.

In a reference to Prince Harry’s attacks on the royal family, the friend adds: ‘They have never put a foot wrong and have been the souls of discretion, yet they have been cast out. It’s not right.’

Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of Princess Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth’s niece, confirms that she is one of the non-invited. “I’m not going to the coronation, but I’m really looking forward to watching it [on television],’ she tells me.

She was on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the last occasion Meghan Markle was, at Trooping the Color in 2019.

Zenouska, 32, was so close to the Queen that Her Majesty made it a point to take a picture with her at Windsor Castle in March last year when she was in ill health six months before her death.

The Queen was pictured inspecting a collection of porcelain from luxury goods retailer Halcyon Days, for which Zenouska works. “It was a really nice event,” she tells me at a coronation party at the Garrison Chapel in Chelsea, west London. “Everyone had very good memories [of the Queen]. She was a very nice person. Every time someone spoke to her, she made them feel like one in a million.”

She says her mother, Marina Mowatt, 56, who became known as the “royal rebel” in the 1980s when she became pregnant out of wedlock, is invited tomorrow, as is her grandmother.

Zenouska insists she bears no grudge over not being invited herself. “It’s going to be fantastic and everyone is so excited,” she says.

Some uninvited royals attend their own party. “I’m still with family,” she says. “My street is having a street party.”

She will be in good company. Last month I announced that most of Britain’s 24 non-royal dukes were not invited to the coronation, as well as the lower ranks of the nobility.

The Duke of Rutland was one of many left stunned and bewildered. “I wasn’t asked,” he told me, saying he “didn’t really understand” why. “It’s families like mine that have supported the royal family for over 1,000 years or so.”

Dive into the memory lane

India Hicks, goddaughter of King Charles, who has not been invited to the coronation, has shared this intimate photo of the dashing future monarch in his swimsuit during her childhood.

The 55-year-old granddaughter of Burma’s 1st Earl Mountbatten says the photo, taken on holiday in the Bahamas in the 1970s, illustrates His Majesty’s patience. She explains, “We all sat around the pool. In this picture I have these little plastic animals and I’m balancing them over Charles’ back and shoulders. I seem to remember it took hours and he sat there patiently and let me do it.’

Well, he waited 70 years to become king…

Historian Dan Snow has no doubt which part of the King’s coronation procession will be the most moving. “It will be powerful as he passes where Charles I was executed,” Snow tells me, referring to Banqueting House. Speaking at the ARIAS at London’s Theater Royal, Snow adds, “But I don’t think that will be mentioned.” Snow knows what he’s talking about: his wife is Lady Edwina Grosvenor, whose brother, the Duke of Westminster, will be in the procession.

Harry’s assistant is asked back

He is a man of remarkable talents. Who else could go from playing Racing Demon with the Queen Mother – in her role as equerry – to passing through the brutal selection process for the SAS?

Little wonder, then, that 62-year-old Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton is back this week at Buckingham Palace, where coronation rehearsals took place, ten years after he stepped down as chief of staff to Prince William, Catherine and Harry.

The former Irish Guards officer is godfather to Prince George and is still held in high esteem by Harry.

A unique talent indeed.

JCB Chairman Lord Bamford and his wife, Carole, who founded the Daylesford food empire, would like to share their happiness by being invited to the coronation. I heard they gave 8,500 staff a basket filled with mugs, mints and tea in commemorative tins – designed by the famous artist Hugo Guinness.

Priyanka’s teenage years behind bars

Priyanka Chopra, who stars in Prime drama Citadel, was so popular with the boys when she was a teenager that her father put bars on her bedroom window.

“One of them jumped on my balcony at night,” the former Miss World reveals.

“I saw him and screamed. My father came and he left. The next day my father said, “You need rules. F*** this! Bars, all your jeans are confiscated, you’re going to wear Indian suits.”

John Cleese’s decision to revive Fawlty Towers after nearly 45 years has not been greeted with enthusiasm by Sir Michael Palin. ‘Come on, John, you’re 83! Sit down. Golf,” says Palin, 79, this weekend on a Channel Five show about the popular sitcom. He adds to the original, “What John wanted was to make the perfect comedy. He really produced this wonderfully choreographed piece of madness.”

Gwyneth Paltrow brings luvvies to the cleaners by charging £36 for laundry detergent.

The 900ml bottle of Laveree comes in two varieties: ‘Wind’ and ‘Forest’. Most budget-conscious households could buy a cheaper version almost anywhere. But the Hollywood star’s Goop site says her eco-friendly product is squeaky clean.