‘My son, the Prince of Wales': King Charles airbrushes Prince Harry from royal history during historic speech to mark French state visit
The French President was joined by his wife Brigitte at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening for a star-studded banquet attended by the entire royal family.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were the main attractions during the banquet with Catherine dazzling in the Queen Mary Lover's Knot tiara and a show-stopping red Givenchy gown.
The King began the evening with a speech to the French President and First Lady which touched on his elder son and heir while omitting the Duke of Sussex.
During his speech to Mr Macron, Charles reflected on William's decision to choose historic Windsor as his family home.
"The Castle in which we meet this evening was begun by my ancestor - and your sometime countryman - William, Duke of Normandy, in the year 1070," the King reportedly said at the start of the Banquet.
"It remains the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world.
"So it is perhaps rather appropriate that my son, The Prince of Wales, who shares that earlier William's name, has made Windsor his home with his family, like so many of our predecessors."
While the Wales family live in bucolic Windsor, the Sussexes have opted for a more jet set lifestyle and call a $21 million Montecito mansion home.
The pointed omission by the King marked perhaps the latest sign that the Sussexes have effectively been burned out of the royal family tapestry.
On the official royal family website, the Sussexes are now listed at the very bottom of the family tree, next to the disgraced Prince Andrew.
Meanwhile, the palace media team no longer publicly celebrates Harry or Meghan Markle's birthdays or other Sussex family milestones.
According to royal insider Richard Fitzwilliams, the Duke of Sussex feels 'exiled' and increasingly role-less amid his ongoing estrangement from the monarchy.
"(Harry) is in exile," Mr Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital on Wednesday after the banquet.
"Undoubtedly, he has some regrets.
'He appears to have lost touch with many of his friends and, of course, there is the royal rift."
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