Prince Harry celebrates Invictus Games at UK event while royal family attends garden party just miles away

Prince Harry celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games at an event in London, but the royal family was not in attendance.

On Wednesday, the 39-year-old Duke of Sussex marked the tournament’s milestone during a service of thanksgiving held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the church where his parents, King Charles III and the late Princess Diana, married in 1981.

In 2014, Harry founded Meanwhile, Charles and senior royal family members attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace two miles away after it was announced that the monarch would not be able to meet with his son while Harry is in the U.K.did not attend the garden party. The Prince of Wales, 40, conducted an investiture ceremony at Windsor earlier on Wednesday while the Princess of Wales, 41, is taking time off from official royal duties while she undergoes cancer treatment.

However, Harry’s uncle, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and Diana’s younger brother, attended the Invictus Games’ anniversary service in support of his nephew. Buckingham’s first garden party of the season, Charles was joined by Queen Camilla; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh; Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh; Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester; and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Ahead of the garden party, Charles held his weekly audience with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.