Prince Harry will take Archie and Lilibet on emotional visit to Diana’s grave for first time during next month’s UK trip
PRINCE Harry will take Archie and Lilibet to see gran Diana’s grave for the first time when they visit the UK next month.
The poignant trip to Althorp House, Northants, will take place days after what would have been her 65th birthday.
A stand-off over UK security for US-based Harry means his kids, seven and five, have never seen Di’s resting place.
Harry’s two young children will see the grave of the grandmother they never had the chance to know.
Harry was 12 and his mum Princess Diana just 36 when she died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
She was buried on an island at her ancestral home Althorp House in Northamptonshire.
Harry has visited her resting place several times and regularly sends bouquets of flowers to be placed by her grave.
He took wife Meghan in 2022 but their kids Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, have yet to see it.
The chance comes as California-based Harry and Meghan bring them to the UK next month for events marking the countdown to his Invictus Games next year.
The Sussexes have been reluctant to bring the children to the UK since Harry’s 24-hour security protection was removed following January 2020’s Megxit.
However, Harry, now 41, and Meghan, 44, have accepted the offer to stay at a secure royal home when they attend Invictus events in Birmingham and London from July 6 to 10.
The Sun has previously reported that the family will also meet King Charles on their hugely-anticipated trip, but not Harry’s brother William, 44.
The most poignant part will be the Sussexes’ journey to Althorp, where Diana’s brother Earl Spencer is expected to host them just days after what would have been her 65th birthday.
Diana’s grave site — at the centre of the ornamental lake known as The Oval and within Althorp Park’s Pleasure Garden — is off-limits to the public.
Harry took Meghan there in 2022 — some 25 years after Diana’s death — and detailed it in his autobiography Spare.
The memoir, which enraged the Royal Family by including personal attacks on William, wife Kate and Queen Camilla, was published in 2023.
Harry wrote in the best-selling book: “No visit to this place was ever easy, but this one . . . 25th anniversary and Meg’s first time.
“At long last, I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet mum.”
He told how Earl Spencer guided them to a boat and they rowed across to the island alone.
Harry added: “We hesitated, hugging, then I went first. I placed flowers on the grave. Meg gave me a moment, and I spoke to my mother in my head, told her I missed her, asked her for guidance and clarity.”
He added: “Feeling that Meg might also want a moment, I went around the hedge, scanned the pond.
“When I came back, Meg was kneeling, eyes shut, palms against the stone. I asked, as we walked back to the boat, what she’d prayed for. Clarity, she told me. And guidance.” Harry also revealed in the book that he and William visited the grave in 2017 but had one of their first clashes over Meghan.
Harry wrote that William said about their mother: “I think she’s been in my life, Harold. Guiding me. Setting things up for me.
“I think she’s helped me start a family. And I feel as though she’s helping you now too.” Harry wrote in Spare: “I nodded. Totally agree. I feel as though she helped me find Meg.
“Willy took a step back. He looked concerned. That seemed to be taking things a bit far.”
Harry claims William then said: “Well, now, Harold, I’m not sure about that. I wouldn’t say THAT.”
The Sussexes have also often referenced Diana in Mother’s Day messages on their Instagram. In 2019 they paid tribute to “all mothers today — past, present, mothers-to-be, and those lost but forever remembered.”
King Charles has not seen the Sussex grandkids, who are sixth and seventh in line to the throne, since Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022.
In May 2025, Harry told the BBC he “would love a reconciliation” with the Royal Family
That September he met Charles for less than 45 minutes at Clarence House, London, bringing along a framed photo of his children for his father.
Harry also jetted in alone to see Charles after he was diagnosed with cancer two years ago.
His family were last all together in the UK in June 2022 for the Jubilee, when they stayed at Frogmore Cottage.
The outpouring of grief following Diana’s death led to her being given a grand royal ceremonial funeral — not an official state funeral but which included much of its pageantry.
The Westminster Abbey service on September 6, 1997 was watched by an estimated 2.5billion people around the world.
A million people lined the streets of London to watch her coffin draped in a Union flag make its way to the Abbey.
A haunting and powerful image from the day showed Harry, then 12, and William, 15, walking behind their mother’s coffin alongside Prince Philip, Earl Spencer and Charles, then Prince of Wales.
Diana was then taken to the island on the Althorp estate for a private burial service.
The estate is open to the public in the summer months but the island is off-limits.
Instead people can look across to the island and visit a lakeside memorial dedicated to her.
