A lip reader has quashed speculation that King Charles ordered his youngest son Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle to leave a garden party in 2018.

The party, held shortly after the couple’s 2018 Windsor wedding, was hosted at Buckingham Palace for then-Prince Charles’s 70th birthday.

At the time, there were rumours that Charles, now 76, had asked the couple to leave the party and were allegedly escorted out, however, a professional lip reader examined the footage and revealed what the monarch actually said to his youngest son on the day.

The lip reader told MailOnline that a staff member explained to Harry that he had been “called for”.

Charles could then be seen saying to Harry: “We are going now, We have to leave.”

According to the lip reader, Harry replied: “You go ahead”.

The now-King said: “We will go now, see you later”, and Harry said in response: “Yes, catch up after.”

Shortly beforehand, the Duke and Duchess of Sus𝑠e𝑥 were seen talking to guests before Harry was told his father wanted to see him.

Charles, now 76, quietly told the duke something while placing one hand on his son’s arm.

The prince then nodded and gestured ahead of him before patting Charles on the back and returning to Meghan, with Camilla walking over to kiss both Harry and Meghan goodbye before returning to the party.

The party took place less than two years before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit life as senior royals and moved across the pond to America in 2020.

While it is believed this move caused tension between the duke and his father, the pair are still reportedly on talking terms, with the 76-year-old monarch having called his son recently.

This is despite the prince’s brutal descriptions of his father King Charles over the last few years, with Harry having suggested the King was cold in his bombshell 2023 memoir Spare.