New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Royally off duty HARRY’S bittersweet goodbye

It was the end of an era. Prince Harry, accompanied by wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, carried out his final engagement as a senior member of the royal family last week.

But what was undoubtedly a poignant occasion for the prince unfortunately also appeared to be an extremely awkward and uncomfortable one.

As he attended the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey with his family for the last time, Harry (35) looked pensive and ill at ease. His interactions with brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, were described as frosty and strained too.

But royal insiders are divided over whether Harry’s demeanour was due to the fact that he was desperate to get the event out of the way

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