CENOTAPH SNUB

Prince Harry’s wreath lays unused at Royal British Legion HQ after Palace banned it from being placed at Cenotaph

PRINCE Harry’s Remembrance Day wreath lay forgotten yesterday after a Palace ban on it being laid at the Cenotaph.

We traced the tribute to the Royal British Legion’s Kent HQ.

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Prince Harry’s Remembrance Day wreath was traced to the Royal British Legion’s Kent HQ

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The £1,000 wreath was made at the Legion’s factory last year and kept for use

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Prince Harry’s Remembrance Day wreath was banned by Palace chiefs

Harry, in the US, is said to be “deeply saddened” by the decision raising the prospect his official links to the Royal Family have been cut.

Harry, who spent ten years in the Army, had asked for the wreath to be laid on his behalf at the London memorial.

Palace chiefs rejected the request because he is no longer a senior royal — having quit duties in March.

The £1,000 wreath was made at the Legion’s factory last year and kept for use.

Harry first attended the Cenotaph in 2009 aged 25.

He and wife Meghan were pictured with a wreath at the Los Angeles National Cemetery, laying flowers at the graves of two Commonwealth soldiers.

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TV host Piers Morgan tweeted: “Outrageous. Treating Remembrance Sunday like a PR opportunity & trying to steal headlines from the real royals doing their duty back home.”

Harry hinted at regret for missing the London service telling a military podcast: “Even when we can’t all be together we always remember together.”

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Palace chiefs rejected Harry’s request because he is no longer a senior royal

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Prince Harry laid a wreath at the graves of two Commonwealth soldiers in LA

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pictured laying flowers at the Los Angeles National Cemetery

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Prince Harry described wearing his poppy with pride to ‘celebrate the bravery of all our veterans’

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He described wearing his poppy with pride to “celebrate the bravery of all our veterans… the people I remember when I lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.”

Royal sources said there was no intention to use the wreath.

The Palace did not want to comment.

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Harry first attended the Cenotaph in 2009 aged 25

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