Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to join Kate Middleton, Prince William and the Queen for Remembrance service

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MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry will tonight join Kate Middleton, Prince William and the Queen for a Remembrance service.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will attend their first official royal engagement with the Cambridges since Trooping the Colour in June.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will attend the Remembrance Day service together tonight

It comes after Prince Harry, 35, admitted he and brother William were “certainly on different paths” after speculation of a falling out.

The Sun told how the simmering tension began when William questioned the speed of Harry and Meghans engagement.

And the new dad admitted while the pair would “always be brothers”, they had not been able to see each other as much due to their busy schedules.

While Kate and Meghan headed to Wimbledon together in July, the Sussex and Cambridge houses formally splitearlier this year.

Meghan and Harry most recently spoke of the difficulties of living life in the spotlight as they toured Africa.

They yesterday continued their royal duties as they paid tributes to the nation’s fallen heroes at Westminster’s Field of Remembrance.

Meghan and Harry chatted to everyone from D-Day veterans to those who served in more recent conflicts and shared a hug with Poppie Hutton, aged eight, from Armagh, Northern Ireland, who was with her grandparents at the plot for the Royal Irish Regiment.

TIME OF REMEMBRANCE

Prince Charles and wife Camilla will also attend the service at the Royal Albert Hall tonight despite Duchess of Cornwall, 72, yesterday forced to pull out of the Westminster Abbey service due to a chest infection.

Other royals expected to be at the service tonight include the Duke of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

This year’s event marks 75 years since notable battles of 1944 including Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal, D-Day and the collaboration of Commonwealth and Allied forces.

It will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Government Communications Headquarters and pay tribute to RFA Mounts Bay which delivered supplies and aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian this year.

The ceremony is hosted by the Royal British Legion and commemorates all those who lost their lives in conflicts.

And on Sunday, the family is expected to attend the annual service and wreath laying at the Cenotaph.

It comes after the Queen yesterday helped to pitch in asshe visited the Royal British Legion Industries ahead of Remembrance Day.

Meanwhile,Kate Middleton and Prince William headed to St-Martin-in-the-Fields to meet with survivors of the Grenfell fire tragedy and Westminster Bridge terror attack.

The Cambridges posed on the Buckingham Palace balcony with other members of the Royal Family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in June