Meghan Markle doesn’t want Prince Harry mending his rift with Charles and William as she is worried it could see he try and move back to the UK, said a royal expert.
The Sussexes have been critical of the Royal Family and its way of life since moving to the United States in 2020, with Harry having regularly spoken to US media about how he needed to leave and start a new life with his own family.
They will be returning to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and in many ways it appears as though it would be the perfect opportunity for the ill-feelings to be put to one side.
But royal author Howard Hodgson claimed that Meghan has a specific reason why she doesn't want Harry to get too friendly with the other royals.
She fears it might make Harry want to return to UK, royal biographer Howard Hodgson has said.
"I don’t think Meghan wants it to be repaired, because if it was repaired, that might get Harry wanting to come back and play his role," he told The Sun.
"In a way, Prince Charles doesn’t want any focus going in that direction, he wants a straight-line focus on him, William, George.”
But a different view is taken by another royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams who says that the Queen will go out of her way to make Harry and Meghan feel at home and ensure that there are no ill feelings.
He told The Sun: “There’s this rift with the Sussexes and it’s been really damaging. My own feeling is the Queen will go out of her way to be as generous a host as she possibly can.
“Nobody wants a repeat of what happened at the rather extraordinary Commonwealth Day, with the Cambridges and Sussexes actually looking hostile to each other. Anything like that is not going to happen now... I wouldn’t be surprised if there are special gestures to make them feel welcome.”
The Sussexes are flying over from the US with Lilibet, who has never met the Queen in person before, and her older brother Archie.
Saturday is also the first birthday of Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet, amid speculation the youngster could spend the day with her namesake great-grandmother.
On Friday will be the Thanksgiving service at St Paul's to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee but it is unclear if she will attend and if she does there will be no ceremonial journey to the cathedral.
Wider members of the royal family are expected to be present including possibly the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Duke of York, and the service will be followed by a Guildhall reception for them.
