if (the RF) had not been invited it would have been leaked
I'm the first to agree the palace leak when it suits, but am not sure they'd have bothered with this
Why risk yet another tantrum from Montecito, when recently their whole approach has been to keep schtum about Harry with no public statements at all?
And speaking of public statements it wasn't the palace who disclosed that he was snubbed by his dad; it took Harry himself to do that via his spokesman