“Palace Confidential” show Friday that the Sussexes are “running out of time” to be welcomed back into the fold as working royals by Harry’s estranged family. “Time is running out to come back while his father is still King,” Eden said in reference to King Charles III, who became monarch in 2022 after Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
Eden added that “if Harry wants to come back at any stage, he needs to do it while his father is still King.”Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, quit royal life in 2020 and hightailed it across the pond to Montecito, California.
Since then, the couple — who have two children together — have created tension with the royal family by exposing their secrets in their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, their six-part Netflix documentary, and Harry’s memoir, “Spare.”According to Eden, Harry and Meghan will have a much harder time rejoining the royal family after Harry’s cancer-stricken 75-year-old father dies and his brother Prince William becomes king.“I really think that when Prince William is King, I can’t see him letting Harry come back and have a role again,” said Eden. “They are irrelevant now, they are just not wanted as part of the monarchy, maybe there could be some radical change but it’s hard to see,” he added about the Sussexes.
In March, royal expert and author Tom Quinn claimed that Harry and Meghan expressed interest in helping with royal duties while Charles and Kate Middleton both battle cancer.“Both Meghan and Harry still hope that at some point they might be asked back to become working royals on their own terms — it’s a rapidly shrinking possibility, but the couple have talked about this at length and the fact that senior royal numbers are seriously down at the moment has rekindled.
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