After a series of strained relations, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are reportedly seeking a part-time reunion with the royal family.
In their bid to mend fences, Queen Camilla’s journey back into the fold could serve as an example for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Having severed their ties with the institution and leveled multiple allegations against senior family members following their departure in 2020, Meghan and Harry are now looking to ease the strain they have faced since then.
Sources close to the couple have revealed that Meghan is particularly eager to secure a part-time reunion with the King, hoping it will provide some respite from the challenges they have encountered since relocating to California.
Their attempts to establish a stable position in their new home have proven difficult, with their charitable foundation, Archul, recently reporting significant financial losses.
Royal expert Duncan Larcombe believes that Queen Camilla’s experience demonstrates that the public can be won back over, offering hope for Harry and Meghan’s potential return to the royal fold.
Larcombe states, “I think the Sussexes are aware the Prince and Princess of Wales are still furious.
There’s always a way back.
Look at Camilla, she was the most hated person in Britain and now she’s the Queen.
If that’s possible, anything’s possible.
But as things stand at the moment, I’d say it’s pretty unthinkable.”
Queen Camilla herself had faced years of negative publicity due to her involvement in the breakdown of the King’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales.
To improve her public image, Charles employed several PR experts who carefully introduced Camilla as his new partner.
Broadcaster Carol Malone, who covered the couple extensively in the 1990s, recalls, “When I was reporting on the royals, Camilla was literally the most hated woman in Britain.
She really was, she was the devil incarnate, never mind a national treasure.
She was hated, she was seen as a homewrecker, and even when Diana died, she kind of got blamed for that.
People were thinking that if it hadn’t been for her, Diana wouldn’t have been in that car, she wouldn’t have been with Dodi Al Fayed.”
However, the palace’s PR strategy gradually changed public perception of Camilla.
Malone explains, “Her coming out, if you like, was in 1999 at the Ritz where the two of them were together at Camilla’s sister’s birthday party.
This was a big thing, and people would have forgotten it, but it was a big thing for them to be together.
Over the years, the palace has just gone slowly, slowly, slowly.
They didn’t shove her down our throats.”