One royal expert has suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can “do one thing” to resolve their ongoing feud with Prince William and Kate Middleton. Despite making headlines with their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Netflix docu-series “Harry & Meghan,” and Prince Harry’s bestselling memoir Spare, the couple’s relationship with the royal family remains strained.
Robert Hardman, a royal author known for his book Charles III: New King, New Court, The Inside Story, believes that Meghan and Harry have an opportunity to mend fences. He asserts that the Sussexes are “much-loved family members” but need to address certain issues privately.
Hardman proposed that the couple, along with their children, could make a private visit to the UK this summer to “normalize” relations. He advised, “Come over with Meghan, with the children, privately, for a few days maybe in the summer.”
Speaking at the Hay Literary Festival in England, Hardman elaborated on the potential impact of such a visit. “Once that happens, it’s not such big news when it happens again. Then you start to get somewhere,” he told Mirror US.
In February, Prince Harry visited the UK after his father, King Charles, was diagnosed with cancer. Hardman remarked, “I thought it was telling that when the cancer diagnosis came through back in February, Prince Harry came straight over. People said ‘why didn’t he stay longer, why didn’t he talk to his father?’”
“I mean, there is so much to be worked through, but this was absolutely not the moment to have some sort of summit with Harry about all of Harry’s grievances”, told OK Magazine.
Hardman emphasized the importance of the visit itself. “But I think the fact he came was important, the fact he was received was important, I think what encouraged people at the palace and encouraged the king was the fact that afterwards, we didn’t then read about it or hear about it, it remained private,” he added.
Harry also visited the UK last May for the Invictus Games but did not meet with Charles due to the monarch’s “full schedule.” The “difficult” Wales also snubbed the Duke of Sussex during the brief May visit.
The suggestion from Hardman indicates that a private, family-oriented approach might be the key to healing the rift between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family. Whether Meghan and Harry will take this advice remains to be seen, but the potential for reconciliation is there if they choose to take the necessary steps.