It's that time of year when the royals wind down their official duties to head off on their summer holidays.
For the Queen, this means heading to her Scottish Highlands retreat of Balmoral, where over the course of her 10-week stay she welcomes her family members at various points over her break.
And this year, Her Majesty has reportedly extended an invitation for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their children to join her.
The Sussexes spent little time with the monarch during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this year, during which they finally introduced their daughter Lilibet to her great-grandmother.
For Harry, holidaying in Balmoral over the summer was part and parcel of growing up royal - and he was at the estate in August 1997 when he heard the tragic news that his mother Princess Diana had died following a car crash in Paris.
But during her time as a working royal, Meghan only managed one trip to Balmoral with the Queen - in 2018 in the months after she and Harry tied the knot.
The couple had been expected at Balmoral in 2019 with their new son Archie along with the likes of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their children.
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However, they skipped the trip with author Tom Bower claiming in his explosive new book about Meghan and Harry called Revenge that Meghan felt Archie was "too young at three months to travel by plane to Scotland".
But that doesn't mean that the couple shunned summer holidays that year shortly after welcoming Archie.
In August 2019, Harry and Meghan reportedly took Archie on his first summer holiday to Ibiza.
Reports in Spanish publications claimed Meghan, Harry and Archie flew to the Balearic island on a private plane and were accompanied by their normal security team.
It then later emerged they also travelled to Nice shortly after for a short trip, where they stayed at Elton John's private villa.
Harry and Meghan's supposed invitation to Balmoral comes after they have met with the Queen on a handful of occasions so far in 2022 in a bid to rebuild bridges - although each meeting was fairly brief.
In April, Harry visited his beloved grandmother in a secret visit as he travelled to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games.
Then, during last month’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the Queen met her namesake great-granddaughter for the first time. However, reports say this meeting lasted all of just 15 minutes.
