Royal news – live: Kate Middleton portrait sparks debate as it’s claimed Harry ‘rejected King’s UK invitation’

A new portrait of the Princess of Wales has sparked a debate online after commentators argued that it looks nothing like Kate Middleton.

The painting, by British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor, features the Princess in the white dress and accessories she wore to King Charles’s first state banquet.

It features on the upcoming edition of Tatler magazine and was created in honour of the Princess’s “courage and dignity” when announcing her cancer diagnosis.

The unveiling of the portrait comes after claims that Prince Harry rejected the King’s invitation to stay in a royal residence on his recent trip to the UK.

According to The Telegraph, Harry turned the invitation down because it had no tax-payer funded security provision.

He therefore opted to stay in a hotel where he “could come and go unseen” instead of staying at a “visible location” where he could have reunited with his cancer-stricken father.

The subject remains a bone of contention for the Duke who railed against losing his publicly-funded security protection after choosing to step back from his royal duties and move to California with Meghan Markle in 2020.

Representatives for the Duke of Sussex have been contacted by The Independent for comment.