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Italian media yesterday said that police mounted a huge operation to protect Harry and Meghan when they flew out to stay with the Hollywood star and his wife, a human rights barrister, at the Villa Oleandra in Laglio.
Kensington Palace last night declined to comment on reports that the royal couple travelled to Italy in a private jet on Thursday night and returned on Sunday evening after attending a party with about 15 friends at the villa, which cost the actor 7.5 million euros when he bought it in 2002.
Clooney, 57, and 40-year-old Amal were guests at Harry and Meghan’s wedding at Windsor Castle, in May.
The Clooneys were at the villa with their 14-month-old twins Alexander and Ella.
According to one Italian magazine, Meghan helped to look after the twins while Harry and George played basketball with other friends.
Harry, 33, and Meghan, 37, are to return to royal duties after a long summer break clouded by continuing tensions with Meghan’s father.
The royal couple will attend a gala performance of the musical Hamilton in support of the Prince’s African Aids charity Sentebale at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London next Wednesday.
They will also both attend the annual awards ceremony for WellChild, of which Harry is patron, in London on September 4 and a gala performance two days later of 100 Days To Peace, a musical evening at Central Hall, Westminster, marking the centenary of the end of the First World War.
The couple, who have spent much of August at their rented country retreat in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and in Scotland, have not responded to Meghan’s father Thomas Markle after he criticised them in interviews.
Friends have dismissed reports that Meghan has flown to Toronto and plans to visit her mother, Doria Ragland, in Los Angeles this month.
It is understood she has no plans to visit California in the near future and so will have no opportunity to see her father, who lives 150 miles away in Mexico.
But royal sources acknowledge that palace officials will have to rebuild bridges in the future, knowing that the family rift threatens to overshadow the public’s perception of the couple – especially if they have children and Mr Markle is prevented from seeing them.
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