The Sussexes going solo: Interactive timeline reveals just how many times Harry and Meghan have attended events on their own since start of year – and how little they’ve been together
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are spending more time apart – at least publicly, MailOnline can reveal today.
The Sussexes have entered a new phase in their pseudo-royal life and are increasing the number of solo appearances they make.
And a new and exclusive interactive MailOnline timeline today reveals that the year started this way and the trend has accelerated since the summer.
2024 started with a solo engagement when Harry accepted an award for his work as a pilot at the annual ‘Living Legends of Aviation’ gala hosted by John Travolta. Meghan was apparently home because Archie or Lilibet were sick.
There have been joint tours to Jamaica and Nigeria, as well as a joint visit to Canada to promote the next Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler. But in the seven weeks since their four-day visit to Colombia in mid-August, the Sussexes have completed no fewer than eleven assignments separately.
Today it emerged that a friend of the couple said the trend is all part of a new ‘two-track approach’ to events, where they will do more on their own to showcase their own personal passions and causes, which is apparently already ‘paying off’ throws off’. .
But another source today said the public should not read anything into it, insisting that any claim they are living separate lives is “untrue and a bit much”.
Most recently, Prince Harry was away from home for a fortnight on a pseudo-royal trip to New York, London and South Africa with his wife and children at home in Montecito. And Meghan attended a glitzy children’s hospital gala in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.
Even before the Duke of Sussex’s trip to three continents in two weeks, Harry has visited Britain before – but never with his wife, amid a row over their safety in Britain since Megxit and claims she may never visit her husband’s homeland. again.
Earlier this year, the royal family flew to Britain to see his father, King Charles III, after the monarch was diagnosed with cancer. He also attended an event celebrating a decade of the Invictus Games and the recent funeral of his mother’s brother-in-law, Lord Robert Fellowes.
There was also a boys’ trip in August with best friend Nacho Figueras to Asia to raise money for charities through polo matches. Harry also showed up alone in Vegas.
Scroll down to see the events the Sussexes have attended so far in 2024, both together and separately.