Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have not spent a Christmas with the royal family since 2018. By 2019, tensions were already brewing between the Sussex family and the rest of the royals, so Harry and Meghan took their son,

Since stepping down from their royal duties in 2020, Harry and Meghan have routinely been cut from royal events. The couple did not receive an invite to Trooping the Color, an annual celebration of the reigning monarch’s birthday, for the second time in a row this year, per Harper’s Bazaar.