Meghan Markle will not be welcomed back into the royal fold even if Prince Harry makes a return, according to a royal expert.
The Duke of Sussex, who quit as a senior royal with his wife Meghan in 2020, is reportedly willing to return to a temporary royal role to support his ailing father King Charles. But royal expert and author Tom Quinn exclusively tells The Mirror that Meghan would have no part in it.
"Even if Harry was allowed back temporarily his wife would not be part of the package," Quinn tells the Mirror. "Harry will not move back to the UK without Meghan – not even for a few months. But he had to make the offer because anything else would have looked callous and uncaring."
Quinn says Harry was "visibly shocked and upset" when he got off the phone with his father King Charles telling him that he'd been diagnosed with cancer and "immediately wanted to do something practical to help" his father in his hour of need. But Quinn explained Harry made the offer "safe in the knowledge it would be rejected" and he wouldn't have to return.
"Harry knows he will never be allowed to be a permanent part-time working royal staying six months in the States and then six months in the UK," Quinn says. "The family no longer trust him and, besides, Meghan is absolutely against it. There is far too much bad blood now for it to be even a remote possibility."
Since leaving the royal family, Harry criticised his family in his autobiography Spare. He accused his brother Prince Wiliam of pushing him onto a dog bowl in a rage. He also targeted his sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, who is currently recovering from abdominal surgery, accusing her of making Meghan cry over bridesmaid dresses.
Harry, Meghan, William and Kate were once dubbed the 'fab four' as they often attended royal engagements as a foursome. But Quinn says after the royal brothers' relationship has strained, there is no return. He says: "No one in the royal family wants to go back to the terrible days when Meghan and Harry and William and Kate tried to get along and failed – and caused serious damage to the image of the royal family."
