Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to Miss COP26 Climate Change Conference

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will not be attending the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November.

The highly anticipated event is expected to draw up to 25,000 people from around the world, with representatives from as many as 200 countries attending to set major climate change goals to combat global warming.

However, the royal couple will not be among the attendees, unlike the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, William, and Kate.

This news comes just weeks after Harry and Meghan attended the star-studded Global Negation Citizen live concert in New York, dubbed Woke Stock.

The event demanded tough new eco laws to halve US emissions by 2030 and pressed the wealthiest nations to deliver on a £70 billion-a-year pledge to help developing countries go green.

However, the couple faced criticism for flying back to their £11m mansion in Montecito, California, on a gas-guzzling Do So Falken 2000 jet shortly after the concert finished.

National Enquirer also branded Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hypocrites following their trip because of their contradicting stance on poverty.

The couple has been calling for the end of poverty while expressing their concerns over the issue.

However, they were accused of flaunting their lavish lifestyle during their four-day trip.

The tabloid's source attacked Markle more specifically for wearing a $7,500 designer outfit and $387,000 worth of jewellery, asking, “What was she thinking?

How tone-deaf can you get?”

Prince Harry and Markle attended an event aimed at promoting the largest ever climate protection bill in the country.

Then hours after speaking at the concert, they flew back to their $14m California mansion on a private jet, something they do repeatedly.

“Harry and Meghan should be ashamed of themselves,” the source said.

The royal couple also faced criticism for turning their four-day trip to New York into a royal tour, with some royal fans and experts voicing their dismay.

This criticism came before Prince Harry thought a personal meeting with the Queen had been postponed by his family to stop him using informal conversations as a negotiating tactic, according to sensational claims in a new book.

In his new unauthorized biography Meghan, a Hollywood Princesses, royal author Andrew Morton says a last-minute cancellation of a one-to-one chat with Her Majesty gave Harry concerns about the impact of internal politics on his relationship with his grandmother.

He went on to claim that the confusing change of plans left Harry and Meghan fearing that the entire institution of the royal family was turning against them.

Mr Morton writes, “This sense that, despite their international popularity, they were low down the royal totem pole was confirmed when Harry arranged to meet the Queen for a grandson-to-grandmother chat in early January.

At the last minute, the meeting was postponed.

Harry suspected classic internal politics, his family concerned that anything the Queen agreed during informal conversations would be used by Harry as a negotiating tactic.

The royal couple suspected that the entire institution was conspiring against them.

As they saw it, the evidence was all around them.”

When they arrived in New York, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly brought a massive entourage with them and their own videographer.

However, they will not be attending the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November, unlike other members of the royal family.

The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend events in Glasgow for the 26 Colombian pesos United Nations Climate Change Conference between Monday 1 November to Friday 5 November, 2021.