Harry will NOT attend King Charles’ 75th birthday: Duke of Sussex ‘declines invitation’ in latest criticism – amid claims ‘doesn’t talk much’ after Prince portrayed Queen Camilla as a ‘villain’ in his book

Prince Harry was today accused of turning down an invitation to his father King Charles’ 75th birthday party.

The monarch will hold a week-long bash at Clarence House in London on Tuesday to celebrate the major milestone.

But while his close family and friends will be attending the event, it is believed one face may not be able to make the date.

Insiders say that while the Duke of Sussex has been invited to the soiree, he will not be attending on November 14.

It is in stark contrast to the king’s last major birthday, five years ago.

Then Harry and Meghan chose to postpone their honeymoon to attend a garden party in honor of his 70th.

This is the second time Harry has apparently turned down the opportunity to spend time with his father.

King Charles and Queen Camilla ride in an electric tuk-tuk after visiting Fort Jesus on Friday

Prince Harry and the King ‘still don’t speak much’ partly due to Charles’s ‘disappointment’ over his son’s portrayal of Queen Camilla in his memoirs, an insider claims

In September he declined the King’s offer to join him at Balmoral on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death, despite being visiting from California.

Details of this latest censure were first reported in the Sunday Times yesterday.

It comes after it was claimed on Sunday that Harry and the King still ‘don’t talk much’.

The lack of contact is said to have been prompted by Charles’s “disappointment” with his son’s portrayal of Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare.

Relations have been strained since he and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior royals and moved to California.

They made a number of claims about their treatment by the palace, including in a wide-ranging interview with Oprah and in Harry’s memoirs.

Although the Duke has since attended his father’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in May, his relationship with King Charles remains fractured – with the royal family failing to publicly mark his birthday in September.

An insider has claimed that the Duke of Sussex has not received any personal wishes from his brother, Prince William, or his father, King Charles.

In fact, they told it The Telegraph: ‘Communication between the king and Prince Harry remains quite poor. They hardly speak at all.’

Relations have been strained since Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior royals and moved to California

Kenyan President William Ruto walks with British King Charles and British Queen Camilla before departing from Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kenya, November 3

The source claimed that this could be due to the fact that the ‘workaholic’ King Charles prefers to communicate by phone or letter rather than via my text and WhatsApp.

However, the insider suggested another reason: Charles’ “disappointment and dismay” over Harry’s description of Queen Camilla in his memoir, Spare.

The Duke said his stepmother is ‘dangerous’ and a ‘bad guy’ who has ‘left bodies in the streets’.

He wrote in Spare: ‘I have complex feelings about gaining a stepparent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar.’

Harry also accused Charles and Camilla of ‘planting stories’ about William and his family: ‘Give Dad and Camilla an inch, he said, they’ll take a mile.’

The latest comes as Omid Scobie, the unofficial mouthpiece of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, launched a stunning attack on the royal family in promotional material for his new book, calling Prince William “power hungry” and King Charles “unpopular.”

The relationship between Prince Harry, 39, and the royal family has been strained for years after he and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior royals and moved to California

Prince Charles poses with his sons Prince William and Prince Harry during the royal family’s skiing holiday in Klosters in 2005

Scobie, 42, author of Finding Freedom, the 2020 bestseller about the couple, this week unveiled the cover of his latest book Endgame with a breathtaking description on Amazon.

It described the hardback as “an in-depth examination of the current state of the British monarchy – an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to any lengths to preserve her image and a prince forced to a new life after being betrayed by his own family’.

A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve been told this is bad, very bad. It is unlikely that royal aides will comment, but if there are allegations of racism they will of course be strongly refuted.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex told US TV presenter Oprah Winfrey that when Meghan announced her pregnancy, an unnamed member of the royal family had wondered what skin color their son Archie was likely to have.

The Sussexes repeatedly denied working with Scobie and his co-author Carolyn Durand on Finding Freedom, but Meghan was later forced to admit in the High Court that she had authorized an assistant to secretly brief the couple.

Endgame, published on November 28, is likely to cause further unrest at Buckingham Palace. It is not known whether the Sussexes had any input this time, although the author claims he interviewed family members.