It was five years ago today that an unprecendented emergency meeting saw senior royals summoned to Sandringham by the late Queen.
Just days earlier in January 2020, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle made the shock announcement that they were quitting down as senior royals, less than two years after their wedding. Their decision led to a gathering between the former monarch, then-Prince Charles, Prince William and Harry, dubbed the ‘Sandringham Summit’.
But surprisingly Meghan did not take part, even though it concerned her future. Instead, Harry flew back to Britain from Canada alone with Meghan left some 5,000 miles away on Vancouver Island, where the couple had spent Christmas with Prince Archie.
