There are visits that are announced and there are visits that are kept “under wraps,” per GB News’s confirmed reporting published seven hours ago, and Harry and Meghan taking Archie and Lilibet to Tanera Mor, the largest of the Summer Isles off the northwest coast of Scotland, during their July UK trip is the second kind, which is the kind of secrecy that is maintained until someone tells GB News.
Tanera Mor is an 800-acre private island purchased for £1.7 million in 2017 by their friend Richard Wace, at a time when it was home to just five residents and dotted with crumbling crofters’ cottages. It is a different destination from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, which is the royal estate in Scotland that Harry has described as “simply paradise” in a memoir whose publication did not improve his relationship with the family that owns it, and to which he has not taken his children during his years of estrangement from the institution.
The family traveled to Scotland from Northamptonshire, where they had been guests of Earl and Countess Spencer at Althorp, the ancestral Spencer estate, where Harry and the children placed flowers on the grave of Princess Diana. They then went to a private Scottish island owned by a friend. The sequence is: formal family visit at King Charles’s Highgrove, visit to Diana’s grave, secret island trip, goat yoga at Maxstoke Castle where a goat stepped somewhere sensitive, and then home to California. That is the complete July UK trip.
The island visit was kept under wraps. The grave visit was kept under wraps. The Highgrove meeting was kept under wraps. The goat yoga was not kept under wraps because there were photographers and a goat.
The island had five residents in 2017. It now has four known Sussex visitors and some unknown number of photos that will surface in due course.
When the family that left royal life for privacy takes a private island trip that stays secret for three weeks before appearing in GB News, what exactly is the privacy strategy?
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