See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 00:36 BST, 27 June 2026 | Updated: 00:37 BST, 27 June 2026
Prince Harry will reportedly take Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to visit the grave of their grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, for the first time during a trip to the UK next month.The visit to Althorp House in Northamptonshire is expected to take place just days after what would have been Diana's 65th birthday.The Sussexes are due to travel from their California home for celebrations marking the one-year countdown to Harry's Invictus Games in Birmingham. The duke is also expected to attend engagements with the charities WellChild and Scotty's Little Soldiers.Last week, the Daily Mail revealed that Althorp, the stately home where Diana grew up and is buried, will be closed to the public for two days while Harry and Meghan are in Britain, fuelling speculation they planned to visit her grave.'This is highly unusual,' a source familiar with the Althorp estate said. 'Once the house is open to visitors, it's not usually closed.'The Northamptonshire estate, run by Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, is open to the public for just two months each year, in July and August.The trip will give Diana's grandchildren the chance to visit her grave for the first time. Prince Harry will reportedly take Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to visit the grave of their grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, for the first time during a trip to the UK next month The visit to Althorp House in Northamptonshire is expected to take place just days after what would have been Diana's 65th birthdayDiana is buried on an island in an ornamental lake in the grounds of Althorp.A long-running row over UK security for the California-based duke has meant his children, aged seven and five, have never previously visited Diana's final resting place.The Sun reported the visit will now go ahead.Althorp House was Diana's home from her parents' divorce until her marriage to Charles.Diana died aged 36 as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris in August 1997 while Harry was just 12.Harry rowed Meghan in a boat to the island when they stayed at Althorp in 2022 on the 25th anniversary of his mother's death.'At long last I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet Mum,' Harry wrote in his memoir, Spare, published the following year. After Harry placed flowers on her grave, he left his wife alone. 'When I came back, Meg was kneeling, eyes shut, palms against the stone.' Harry has long argued that security concerns have prevented him bringing his family to Britain after his taxpayer-funded protection changed when he stepped back as a working royal in 2020. Diana is buried on an island in an ornamental lake in the grounds of Althorp. The trip will give Diana's grandchildren the chance to visit her grave for the first timeReports have claimed the Sussexes were given assurances ahead of the visit, although sources have stressed security arrangements are a matter for the Home Office and that the King plays no role in the process.The trip comes after Harry met his father, King Charles, who is undergoing cancer treatment, for the first time in 19 months last September. It will also be the first time Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, have visited the UK since the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.Harry and Meghan no longer have a permanent UK base after they were asked to vacate Frogmore Cottage in 2023, shortly after the publication of the duke's memoir Spare.
