Meghan Markle was absent while Prince Harry made solo hospital visits in London and Birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday. The split-screen image mattered because the week also carried talk of a possible reunion with King Charles III and fresh scrutiny after Harry’s court defeat in 2025.
London and Birmingham visits
Harry’s visits stretched across 2 days and 2 cities, with Wednesday and Thursday spent at hospitals in London and Birmingham. A previous report on Harry and Meghan had already set up the expectation that the pair would be discussed together, but this trip kept Harry on his own.
People reported that Meghan Markle was scheduled to accompany him to at least one of those events. Instead, the public-facing part of the trip belonged to Harry alone, which made her absence the clearest detail of the week.
King Charles III and the reunion talk
Russell Myers reported on Wednesday that King Charles III remained open to seeing Harry and Meghan in the next few days. He also said Charles had directed senior aides to reach out to arrange time to see his California-based grandchildren for the first time in 4 years, turning the visit into more than a routine round of appearances.
That added a family layer to an already loaded trip. Harry had been denied rooms at Buckingham Palace during his visit to London this week, and his 2025 court defeat over security left the wider itinerary under closer watch than usual.
Kinsey Schofield's read
Kinsey Schofield said on the Mark Dolan Show Wednesday that Meghan Markle was nowhere to be found when Harry was going through difficult times. She also said, “Megan mysteriously disappears when Harry is going through difficult times,” and, “Meghan is MIA. She’s nowhere to be found.”
Schofield added, “Now that he’s lost his court case, “I don’t think she wants to be on the arm of a loser,”” which sharpened the contrast between Harry’s public schedule and Meghan’s absence. The comment matched the basic optics of the week: Harry was visible in the U.K., while Meghan was not.
Six years after Harry and Meghan lost automatic taxpayer-funded police security when they quit as working members of the royal family and moved to the United States, the practical question is still the same one for this trip: whether Meghan Markle joins Harry later in the week, or whether the U.K. run stays a solo one.
