Prince Harry had already been knee-deep in tension with members of the royal family—namely his father King Charles and his brother Prince William—for years when he flew across the pond to attend the King’s coronation on May 6, 2023 (which also happened to be the fourth birthday of Harry’s son, Prince Archie).

Though the Duke of Sussex didn’t stay long, he was there—but will he even be invited to William’s coronation, whenever that may be? It remains unclear, but there seems to have been a threshold crossed in Harry’s emotional May 2 interview with the BBC that leads sources to tell Page Six that there’s likely no coming back, particularly between William and Harry.

Royal author Hugo Vickers—who is a friend of the royal family—told Page Six that “theoretically” William should invite Harry to his coronation, “but quite frankly, he [William] can do what he likes. It is not set in stone.”

For context, the Duke of Windsor—who was King Edward VIII before he abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson—“was not invited to [his niece Queen Elizabeth’s] coronation in 1953,” Vickers added. “There was a lot of discussion about it.”

Here’s a fun fact you can take to your next royal dinner party: King Edward VIII (known as David to his family) was on the throne for such a short time—less than a year—that he never even had a coronation; his younger brother, who took over the throne for him upon his abdication and became King George VI, used the date originally planned for David as his own coronation date on May 12, 1937, five months after David abdicated. David was not invited to his brother’s coronation.

When it came to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor watched on television from Paris. The Queen told the then-Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher that it was “altogether out of the question” for her Uncle David to be present, according to London’s The Standard, and that him being there would be “wholly and entirely undesirable.”

When David contacted Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to ask whether he’d be invited or not, Churchill was blunt with the former king, telling him it would be “quite inappropriate” for an abdicated monarch to turn up at a coronation of one of his successors. So, in summary? The precedent is there for a snub.

As for stripping Harry and wife Meghan Markle of their His and Her Royal Highness (HRH) titles when William takes the throne—as has been a hot topic lately—Vickers doesn’t think that will happen.

“We know that William is unforgiving, anyway,” Vickers said. But, he added, William “won’t strip Harry and Meghan of their titles. It appears vindictive.”

If Harry should come back to the U.K. on the occasion of William’s coronation or any other royal family event, he will be covered by taxpayer-funded security. In 2020, Harry and Meghan’s security was revoked after they stepped back as working members of the royal family that year, which was denied on appeal on May 2, leading to the aforementioned BBC interview. The caveat is that Harry and Meghan would receive security of the highest order in the U.K.—but only if they’re invited by the royal family. It remains to be seen if or when that will happen next.

In his interview earlier this month, Harry said, in part, that he “would love reconciliation with my family,” adding, “There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore. Life is precious.”

On May 13, his father King Charles—whom Harry is not currently in contact with, according to Harry himself—gave telling marks at a charity fundraiser for Elephant Family, founded by his wife Queen Camilla’s brother Mark Shand, who died unexpectedly in 2014. Per The Telegraph, the King commended the joining of forces between Elephant Family and the British Asian Trust in 2019, telling the crowd assembled Tuesday—quite poignantly—“It just seems to be that this is a great example of why collaboration is far better than conflict.”