Prince Harry appears to snub King Charles during new video appearance

Prince Harry appears to snub King Charles during new video appearance

Watch: Prince Harry honours US combat medic with an award

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Hannah Ross

By Hannah Ross


Published: 26/04/2024

- 16:32

The Duke of Sussex did not wear King Charles’ Coronation medal during his virtual appearance

  • Prince Harry wore his military uniform and four medals including the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal
  • The Duke of Sussex was stripped of his honorary military titles after stepping down as a working royal
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Prince Harry appeared to snub King Charles during his new video appearance.

The Duke of Sussex wore his military medals for a video filmed in his Montecito mansion on Friday.


However, Harry chose not to wear the Coronation medal given to him by his father King Charles to present a Soldier of the Year award to a US combat medic.

The 2023 Coronation medal was given to everyone who contributed to supporting King Charles’s Coronation on May 6.

Prince Harry and King Charles

Prince Harry did not wear King Charles’s Coronation medal during his video message

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The prince wore a black jacket and red tie for the video appearance and four other military medals.

Harry proudly wore his Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, which was awarded in 2002 to everyone who had been in active service for five years, and his Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, which was given to members of the emergency services, Armed Forces, prison service, and the royal household in 2012.

He also wore his Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal, despite having given up his honorary military titles in 2020.

Finally, the father-of-two donned his Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan, which Harry earned in 2008 for his service in Helmand Province.

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The King’s Coronation medal shows a double portrait of King Charles and Queen Camilla given as a thank-you gift to those who helped at the historic event.

On the other side of the medal, there is a version of the Royal Cypher, a laurel wreath and the date of the Coronation.

Around 400,000 of these medals were handed out to members of the police, fire, emergency services, military personnel and armed forces.

The prince appeared in the video presenting the Soldier of the Year award to his “friend” Sergeant First Class Elizabeth Marks, who he described as a “beacon of inspiration.”

Meghan Markle and Prince HarryPrince Harry was stripped of his honorary military titles when he stepped down as a working royal with Meghan Markle​Getty

Marks suffered bilateral hip injuries while deployed in Iraq in 2010 after signing up aged just 17.

The duke told the crowd: “I first met Sergeant First Class Elizabeth Marks at the Invictus Games in Orlando 2016, where I presented her with not one, but four gold medals that she'd won in swimming.

“To me, she epitomises the courage, resilience and determination represented across our service community. And this is not just because of her swimming abilities.

"Ellie has courageously overcome every obstacle to cross her path. She has turned her pain into purpose and led through compassion and willpower, showing others that the impossible is indeed possible.”

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