Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could still return to Britain to help modernise the Royal Family, according to an expert.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as active members of the Firm in March 2020 and now live in Montecito, California, with their two children.
They have since gone on to sign multi-million dollar deals with the likes of Netflix and Spotify - but have also caused controversy with a number of damaging accusations about their old lives.
But, ex-Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Tina Brown believes "there is a need" for them to go back.
Speaking to LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr, the author and journalist said the couple were a "huge asset" as the family looks to modernise in the future.
"They were a huge asset as a couple to the royals and I think they actually, they really needed them," she said during the interview on Thursday.
"I mean, they were the face of, you know, younger, connecting to the young of England.
"To have a woman of colour in the Royal Family was, you know, a wonderful thing for the connection to a more diverse nation.
"So there was a need to have them back, I think. There is a need, I think, to have them back."
Ms Brown - who last month published The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil - went on to say Meghan is "pretty practical about solutions when it comes to move on".
She believes the Duchess may get to the point where she thinks the "biggest role" she can have is in "coming back to England".
"At which point that will be the time to rediscover a deep love for the British," added before laughing.
Ms Brown said the Sussexes could then, "in a sense" pick up where they left off in terms of helping to modernise things, which she believes "is going to be now the focus".
She added: "Ironically, they left just at the point when things were about to get really kind of, for them, perhaps more malleable to change.
"Because you know, when the Queen dies, it's going to have to be just a giant rethink."
Harry and Meghan briefly returned to the UK last month on their way to the Invictus Games in Holland.
It was the first time they'd been in the country together since they moved across the Atlantic two years ago.
During her appearance on LBC, Ms Brown also spoke about how next-in-line Prince Charles will have a transitional reign in which he has to help modernise the family and lay the ground work for Prince William.
