Where will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sit at King Charles’s Coronation?

A seating plan for a momentous occasion such as a state banquet, or a royal wedding can take months to organise, and without question, the same will apply to King Charles’s coronation on May 6. If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle do attend, it has been muted that (although they are no longer senior working royals), they are likely to have ‘prominent seats.’

According to The Daily Beast “King Charles will ‘do the right thing’ and seat his son Prince Harry ‘prominently ‘ at his coronation, friends of the king believe, despite Harry’s latest broadside at his family, whom he accused in open court this week of conspiring with British newspapers and withholding information about phone hacking from him.”

If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle do attend the coronation and sit in a prominent position, one person who will undoubtedly not be happy with this is Piers Morgan.

He recently offered his thoughts on where the couple should sit on a recent episode of his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored on Talk TV, and said: “I’d make them sit in the tenth row, right behind Prince Andrew. He then added the following: ”So when the world’s cameras get beamed on them, all they see is their little heads peering around Andrew.”

Although Prince Harry was in London last week at the Royal Courts of Justice for his ongoing case against Associated Newspapers Ltd, it is thought that he did not see King Charles (who was in Germany) nor Prince William. 

Despite Prince Harry’s ‘difficult’ relationship with his brother and father at present, where he will be seated will be more to do with his and Meghan Markle’s positions as non ‘senior working royals’ rather than because he is no longer ‘close’ to his brother or father.

The Daily Beast reports that “There seems to be broad agreement in royal circles that uncomplaining Edward may have to take the hit of being seated next to Andrew, meaning that peeling away from the aisle you could have Harry, Meghan, Anne, Sir Tim, Sophie, Edward and Andrew.”

On Friday 10th March 2023, which coincided with Prince Edward’s 59th birthday, King Charles conferred the title of Duke of Edinburgh on his youngest brother. His wife Sophie became the Duchess of Edinburgh. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said that King Charles was “pleased to confer the Dukedom of Edinburgh upon the Prince Edward.”

Despite tensions surrounding Prince Andrew and his role within the royal family, he was recently spotted enjoying a horse ride with his younger brother, the now Duke of Edinburgh. He also has something to look forward to this year as his youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, is currently pregnant with her second child.