Prince Harry is planning to take Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to visit the final resting place of their grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, for the first time during a trip to the UK next month.
The private emotional visit to Althorp House in Northamptonshire is expected to take place just days after what would have been Diana’s 65th birthday.
The Sussexes are due to travel from their California home for celebrations marking the one-year countdown to Harry’s Invictus Games in Birmingham.
The duke is also expected to attend engagements with the charities WellChild and Scotty’s Little Soldiers.
Last week, the Daily Mail revealed that Althorp, the stately home where Diana grew up and is buried, will be closed to the public for two days while Harry and Meghan are in Britain, fuelling speculation they planned to visit her grave.
‘This is highly unusual,’ a source familiar with the Althorp estate said. ‘Once the house is open to visitors, it’s not usually closed.’
The Northamptonshire estate, run by Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, is open to the public for just two months each year, in July and August.
The trip will give Diana’s grandchildren the chance to visit her grave for the first time.
