Obamas ‘will go to William’ amid family breakup, Prince Harry biographer says

The Obamas did not invite Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to Barack’s 60th birthday party because “they will go to William” in the midst of the family breakup, the Prince Harry biographer has claimed.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend the lavish ceremony launched by the former US President on Saturday at his £ 8million seven-bedroom holiday home in Martha’s Vineyard. It included John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Meghan’s friend, CBS This Morning host Gayle King, George Clooney and Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

And according to royal expert and author Angela Levin, who wrote Harry: Biography of a Prince, Barack and Michelle, 57, are believed to have wanted to take the couple’s “step” out of respect for the Queen.

“I’m sure if they say we can only deal with one brother and his wife – you can’t have both because they’re so far apart now – they’ll go to William,” Angela said, addressing the Sun. “The Obamas have clearly always held Harry in high regard, but I’m sure they can see through Meghan.

They might stick around, but they won’t be as nice as they used to be.

The royal expert went on to say that the Duchess of Sussex “Desperately wanted” to be among those present.

“I was told that although she claimed she couldn’t attend, Meghan desperately wanted to be the special guest at Obama’s incredible party,” she said. “But the point is, Harry and Meghan were never even on the original list.”

The Obamas first met Her Majesty in 2009 at the G20 summit, and in 2011 the monarch welcomed them for a three-day state visit.

When the Duke of Edinburgh passed away in April at the age of 99, Obama posted a glowing tribute on Twitter, writing: “Through his extraordinary example, His Royal Highness Prince Philip has proven that a true partnership has room for both ambition and altruism – all in the service of something bigger.

His wife also tweeted: “Our hearts are with Her Majesty The Queen, the Royal Family and the British people.”

Speaking about the Queen on her 2019 book tour, Michelle described her as “wonderfully warm, funny, elegant and kind and caring in a really interesting way.”

In 2016, they attended a dinner with Prince William and Kate Middleton at their home, where they were pictured meeting Prince George, then three, who was in his dressing gown ready for bed, before dining with the Cambridges and Harry.

Obama publicly supported Prince William’s Earthshot Prize in October, writing on Twitter: “It’s going to take a lot of thought and innovation to save the planet we have – and that’s why @KensingtonRoyal’s leadership on the climate change can make a real difference.

The Obamas also have a long-standing relationship with Harry, bonding with him during his Invictus Games – which they starred in a video with the Prince and Queen for to help promote him in 2016.

The following year Harry interviewed Barack in Toronto for his guest edit of BBC Radio 4’s Today show, in which they discussed the risks of social media and the corrosion of civil discourse.

Meghan was also keen to attend Michelle’s talk at the London Southbank Center in December 2018, the pair then reportedly gathered backstage for a ‘power meeting’ to discuss their shared passion for educating girls.

Although Meghan and Harry are currently on parental leave after welcoming their daughter Lilibet in June, the Duchess used her 40th birthday last week to launch her new 40×40 initiative, designed to encourage women to return to work after the pandemic.

But while a host of celebrities – including Hillary Clinton – have been asked to support the project, which asks people to donate 40 minutes of their time to mentoring, the Obamas have apparently not been invited to participate.

And Angela notes that “it must be irritating to the Obamas” that the concept was similar to Barack’s 60×60 birthday appeal, where people were asked to donate $ 60, or even $ six, to a charitable cause.

The comments come after royal expert Camilla Tominey claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “remarkable” absence from Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party could be a sign that their “special relationship” is over.

Although Obama insisted the event was reduced from a list of 500 due to the spread of India’s Delta variant of Covid, a staff member told DailyMail.com that 300 to 400 people were present.

Page Six, who broke the news of Harry’s multi-million pound book deal, reported that Harry and Meghan ‘had no plans to attend’ and suggested the Duke could take his wife for her own birthday celebrations, when she was 40 on August 4.

Camilla Tominey has suggested that you ordinarily expect Harry and Meghan to be “at the forefront” of the Obama guest list, but some in Democratic circles have suggested the Sussexes’ attempts to “ape everything”. what the Obamas have done “since leaving the royal family may have” endangered their once special relationship. “

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, she said: “Although the Obamas did not attend the Sussex wedding that year, it was believed that the newly California-based couple would be shoo-ins at Obama’s 60th birthday in as prominent and newborn ‘progressives’ of America’s metropolitan liberal elite.

She claimed that a source revealed that the Obamas “didn’t like Harry attacking his family” during her explosive interview with Meghan’s with Oprah Winfrey in March.

“They value family and are definitely not the kind of people who would want their kids to talk to the press,” the insider added.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama also shed light on her and her husband’s feelings about the public outpouring – in which they accused the monarchy of not supporting them and suggested that Prince Charles and the Prince William were “trapped” in the system – in an interview with Access Hollywood.

“My hope is that when I think about what they’re going through, I think about the importance of family and just pray that there is forgiveness and that there is clarity, clarity. love and purpose at some point because there is nothing more important than family, ”she said.

The Sussexes have followed a similar trajectory to the Obamas since leaving royal life, after signing a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix to produce their own documentary series.

Harry also signed a lucrative four-book deal with Penguin Random House – the same publishers Obama used for his memoir A Promised Land in November of last year. In 2018, Michelle published her life story, Becoming.

Tominey suggested that the Obamas may be concerned that an association with the Sussexes could attract negative publicity.

She added that Harry and Meghan denigrating the royal family during their interview with Oprah “may not have gone particularly well with a couple who have always put ‘family first’.

Following Oprah’s interview and news of Harry’s book, some royal commentators criticized the Sussexes for spreading even more royal filth.

The firm is concerned that the release of one of the books will come after the Queen’s death – although Harry’s lawyers have said the claim that he was waiting for his grandmother’s death before releasing one of them is ‘false and defamatory’.