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Prince Harry had lunch with LA Billionaire on Queen’s birthday

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Updated on April 25, 2021

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After traveling back to the United States the day before, Prince Harry allegedly had lunch with LA billionaire Wallis Annenberg at an exclusive Hollywood club on the Queen’s 95th birthday.

The Duke of Sussex allegedly had lunch with Ms Annenberg, an 81-year-old heiress to her late father’s US media company, at the exclusive San Vicente Bungalows, just 24 hours after returning to LA to be with Meghan and their son Archie.

At the San Vicente Bungalows, which Page Six listed as a “super exclusive Hollywood club,” Prince Harry and Wallis Annenberg chatted over a meal. T hey were allegedly secluded from other diners and ate outside.

Meanwhile, the Queen, who is mourning the death of her husband Prince Philip, celebrated her 95th birthday alone.

Harry was supposed to start a 10-day quarantine in California – a Covid recommendation that isn’t mandatory in the US – but he was noticed by diners at the high-end restaurant.

Prince Harry’s business meeting could signal the start of a new partnership. The Annenberg Foundation, as the Daily Mail pointed out, deals closely with issues related to climate change, animal rights, and social justice, all of which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have prioritized in their work since their departure from the Royal Family.

The Annenberg Foundation invests billions in campaigns that Harry is considered to be involved in after leaving as a frontline royal and settling in California.

“They sat outside, far from other people, and Harry came in wearing a mask,” a source told Page Six.

The club is a favorite hangout for some of LA’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals, and it has a stringent no-photos and no-phones policy to protect its patrons’ privacy.

The Sunset Tower hotel millionaire Jeff Klein owns the club.

Prince Harry drew criticism for flying home the day before Queen Elizabeth II’s 95th birthday, and his meeting with Annenberg took place on the monarch’s birthday. However, according to a report published this week by Finding Freedom author Omid Scobie, the Duke spoke privately with the Queen several times while in the UK, so it’s doubtful that he left without consulting her.

Wallis Annenberg’s father, Walter Annenberg, was a friend of Prince Charles and entertained the Queen and Prince Philip at his California ranch in the 1980s. Walter Annenberg was a playboy Anglophile publisher of US newspapers and magazines and later US ambassador to Britain under Richard Nixon. When he died in 2002, Charles was said to have hoped that money would be left in his will for the Prince’s Trust, but he was disappointed.

Mr. Klein is said to have opened an investigation into how word of Harry and Ms Annenberg’s meeting got out. The Page Six source said: ‘It’s just too juicy — I had to divulge’, adding Mr Klein is ‘crazed and trying to figure out how the privacy policy has been breached.’

Klein’s West Hollywood private social club has 750 highly screened members – but only as long as everything, particularly their visitors, is kept a secret.