The Royal Family could seek to temporarily bury the hatchet with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a face-saving exercise ahead of King Charles' coronation, a royal expert has claimed.
Journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti, who is the Jewish Chronicle's Special Correspondent and a royal affairs commentator on both sides of the Atlantic, offered his opinion to the American magazine Us Weekly.
But he admits that a permanent improvement in relations between Harry and his family is going to be difficult to achieve given the extent of the rift that was detailed in the Duke of Sussex's new book Spare and the criticisms contained in it.
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Sacerdoti said: "I suspect that there are some efforts going on to try and make some form of reconciliation. I think because they don’t want [family tensions] to upstage what’s going on on that very important day.
"Whether or not that’s possible is one thing, and whether or not it’s lasting is another thing. Even if they do manage to make some form of peace, [it] might be temporary.
"I think it’s going to be extremely difficult for them as a family – and more broadly, for the nation and for the Institution – to forgive what’s happened."
Sacerdoti went on to suggest that he felt some of Harry's criticism was nasty and that it would take more than the three months to his father's coronation to achieve a long-term healing of past wounds.
"I think Harry and Meghan have said they’re expecting an apology, but I think there aren’t many people who agree that it’s due that way round," Sacerdoti argued.
"Some of the individuals within [Spare] – the King, the Queen and the Prince of Wales – all come out of that book so badly.
"They’re so broadly criticised by Harry, so nastily criticised in sections, that I think they could be feeling very sore about this.
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"But, above all else, I think they might also be feeling that they just want to keep quiet because they don’t want to provoke any more of this sort of thing, which is damaging not just to them emotionally and personally, but to the nation, because this is an attack effectively on part of the Constitution of Great Britain.”
The coronation will take place at Westminster Abbey on May 6, which will also mark the fourth birthday of Harry and Meghan's son Archie.
Queen Consort Camilla will be crowned on the day too, while Sacerdoti believes the Sussexes could still play a role in the service.
"We’re expecting, probably, the Prince and Princess of Wales to take part and maybe their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis," he said.
"And we may also – who knows – see Harry and Meghan included in that, and their children as well."
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