King Charles & Camilla to throw huge Christmas bash – but Harry & Meghan have been frozen out

THE King and Queen Consort are ready to have one of the biggest royal festive gatherings in years — while Harry and Meghan are frozen out.

Charles and Camilla have invited large numbers of those dubbed “The Loyal Family” to Sandringham for their first Christmas Day since the death of the Queen.

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Camilla will have her son Tom Parker Bowles, 47, and daughter Laura Lopes, 44, at the table for a royal Christmas dinner for the first time.

Disgraced Prince Andrew, 62, and his ex-wife and former royal outcast Sarah Ferguson, 63, have also been given the nod for the Norfolk gathering.

Other guests will include Prince William and Kate, both 40, and their three children, Edward and Sophie and family, Princesses Beatrice, 34, and Eugenie, 32, plus their husbands and children.

I’m a Celebrity star Mike Tindall, 44, is also expected, along with wife Zara, 41, and their three children.

Senior aides have said as many members of the family as possible will walk to church together on Christmas Day in a show of unity after a difficult year.

But Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, left, will be thousands of miles away in the States following their fresh attacks on William and Charles in this week’s Netflix docuseries.

It is hoped this year’s arrangements will be smoother than 2021’s.

Then, the family travelled to Windsor Castle for a Christmas hit by Covid and beset by Andrew’s sex abuse case.

A man was then caught in the grounds carrying a crossbow.

A Sandringham source said: “Camilla is keen that her family are at the heart of Christmas, particularly as Charles won’t have his youngest son there.

“It is an extremely important Christmas coming just months after they last all gathered for the Queen’s funeral.

“During last Christmas the family were desperately trying to sort out Prince Andrew and his sex abuse case and then there was the incident with the intruder carrying a crossbow at Windsor Castle.

“We saw the togetherness at the Princess of Wales’s carol concert this week and Christmas will be held in the same spirit.”

It will be the first time Camilla’s family have spent Christmas Day at Sandringham — and they will help ensure it will be one of the biggest royal festive gatherings in memory.

They have been helping Camilla since she became Queen Consort.

She was joined by her sister Annabel Elliot, 73, at a Booker Prize awards ceremony in October, while her ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, formally represented her at a funeral in the same month.

Fergie will also spend Christmas Day at Sandringham for the first time in 30 years and will stay at Wood Farm Cottage with her ex, Andrew.

However, William and Kate and their children George, nine, Charlotte, seven, and Louis, four, will stay at nearby Anmer Hall, where they previously lived.

Harry and Meghan are expected to be in California for Christmas with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, 18 months.

However, it is believed they will share presents with William and Kate.

The King is expected to travel to Scotland for New Year where he will see in 2023 at Balmoral and Birkhall.

Meanwhile, it has emerged Harry and Meghan have avoided trashing Camilla in their Netflix series, as it would be a step too far for Charles.

The whining couple were widely expected to attack the new Queen Consort but she was never mentioned.

Sources close to the King maintain “he loves his son very much” and he has an invitation to dinner whenever Harry is in the UK, despite the trans-Atlantic row.

But a source said: “Camilla is Charles’s red line. If they trash her then he could pull the plug, and they know it.

“Harry had a difficult relationship with Camilla who had an affair with his father when he was still married to Diana. But attacking Camilla would not go down well amongst palace staff or his father, and he knows that.”

However, the moaning Duke of Sussex could still lay into his stepmother in his upcoming book, Spare.

The Sun understands he has researched his mother’s life and her split from his father.

We revealed yesterday that a whopping 93 per cent of Sun readers want Harry and Meghan stripped of their royal titles while 83 per cent say they should be banned from the coronation in May.

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