Meghan Markle is not expected to return to the UK in the near future - with those in royal circles fearing she would be booed if she were to appear in public.
The Duchess of Sussex will not be accompanying her husband Prince Harry to King Charles' Coronation next month.
She will stay behind at the family home in California with the couple's children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
Archie turns four on May 6, the same day as the historic event at Westminster Abbey with the couple's biographer Omid Scobie confirming Archie's birthday "played a factor in the decision" and he expected it would be a "fairly quick trip to the UK" for Harry.
However, those in royal circles had speculated whether Meghan may have had concerns over being booed were she to appear in public in the UK.
The Duchess was roundly condemned after she appeared, in an episode of her Netflix series with husband Harry, to mock the moment she first was required to curtsy to the late Queen.
Often dividing public opinion since leaving their royal roles, Harry and Meghan have spent two years trashing the royals after leaving their royal roles while earning millions of pounds in the process.
Sources close to the Sussexes have said they did not expect Meghan to return in the near future.
Meanwhile, other royal sources say Meghan was "never likely" to come to the King’s Coronation after being put in an "impossible position".
Sources close to the planning of the coronation have told how Harry went through weeks of dialogue with Buckingham Palace aides, after signalling his intention to travel to the UK.
The Duke is understood to have voiced concerns over his security situation and reception from his family were he to come to the May 6 event.
Insiders suggested that the signs were there for Meghan to skip the historic ceremony after she was entirely absent from her husband’s book tour and was believed to be upset about their children’s exclusion from the Coronation procession.
A royal source said: "The truth of the matter is the Duchess was never likely to attend the coronation.
"The mood from California was that she felt increasingly put in an impossible position and there’s a fair sense of relief that the situation is resolved after so much speculation and uncertainty.
"It is one thing to attend the late Queen’s funeral out of respect for Her Majesty but another thing entirely to attend the start of a new reign."
Another source said palace staffers were "cheered that the circus wasn’t coming to town", while another had sympathy for Meghan saying: “She is very much damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.
"As a mother she’s probably doing the right thing by her young children which should be applauded."
Harry's stay in the UK will be brief, with the duke heading quickly back to California to join the celebrations for Archie's birthday.
The duke will only be attending the ceremony and not taking part in other coronation festivities during the three-day bank holiday weekend.
It will be the first time Harry, 38, will see his family since the late Queen's funeral last September and the first time he will come face to face with his father and brother, Prince William since savaging them in his explosive memoir, Spare, in January.
