Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could soon return to Britain to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in a bid to boost their brand, it has been claimed.
The monarch marks 70 years on the throne this summer, with celebrations set to take place over a special four-day bank holiday in June.
There has been much doubt whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would return due to issues over security - having forgone some privileges on stepping down as working royals.
But a royal and PR expert says it would actually be good for both of them to make time for the overseas reunion.
Pauline Maclaran is a professor of marketing and consumer research at the School of Management at Royal Holloway and author of Royal Fever.
She told the Daily Express the Sussexes need their connections within the Firm and could get involved to "top up" their brand.
Professor Maclaran said she believes the Royal Family itself would benefit from the "diversity" Meghan brings.
"I think that would benefit both brands because it would be seen as a kind of reconciliation," Professor Maclaran said.
"I think it would add to the royal celebrations to have the element of diversity reclaimed that they seem to have lost through the sort of rupture of the relationship with Meghan.
"So I think that would be a very good thing."
She continued: "It kind of seems unlikely to me that it's going to happen but there are a few months intervening before so maybe there will be.
"I think it would be very good for the Sussex brand as well as they really need to maintain those sort of royal connections to really validate their brand, otherwise what are they.
"So because it might benefit them more than the actual Royal Family brand that might in fact encourage them to make a visit to top up their brand as it were with a little bit of royal shimmer and glimmer."
Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, are now living with their children Archie and Lilibet in Montecito, California, after quitting royal duties in March 2020.
The Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK twice since then - for his grandfather Prince Philip's funeral in April last year and for the unveiling of his late mum Princess Diana's statue in July.
However, Meghan hasn't made a comeback to the UK since leaving and the Royal Family members are yet to meet the couple's daughter.
Harry is in the midst of taking legal action against the British Government in a row over security, arguing it would be too dangerous for his family to return without police protection.
He filed a claim last September for a judicial review against the Home Office decision not to allow him to personally pay for police protection.
The Sussexes fund a private security team in the US, but it does not have adequate jurisdiction abroad or access to UK intelligence information.
