Complicated family dynamics and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have made the relationships in the Royal Family particularly strained, and the distance, both emotional and physical, has kept Prince Charles from meeting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s three-month-old daughter, Lilibet. “I think Prince Charles really wants to meet his granddaughter,” royal expert Nick Bullen told Us Weekly. “Prince Charles is incredibly sad about everything that’s gone on. So the family will want to meet each other.”
The Queen will be celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, and Bullen thinks this historic occasion could be the right time for the family to reconcile. “The Jubilee is a perfect opportunity for that because if Harry and Megan do come back … because they have to be seen supporting Queen Elizabeth II,” Bullen said. “It’s a great moment for everyone to be together, and everyone’s going to have to play nicely and behave well because it’s the Queen’s moment,” Bullen said. The Queen’s 70th-anniversary celebration is scheduled for June 2, 2022. It will be combined with her birthday, which will give rise to a 4-day bank holiday in Britain.
Bullen said that Harry and Meghan were at odds with other members of the Royal Family. But, Bullen believes they will find common ground when celebrating Queen Elizabeth II. “All the members of the royal family are very aware of the fact that it’s her year,” Bullen explained. “They’re going to support her [and] the headlines shouldn’t be about them.” Bullen also believes that the Queen will “definitely meet” her great-granddaughter, especially considering she is Lilibet’s namesake.
“I think she really would want to. As the queen has always said, Harry and Meghan are much-loved members of the family, and I think the queen rises above all of this petty bickering,” Bullen continued. “This is her family. Of course, she wants to be [with] them.”
Charles and Harry were at odds for a while. Harry said that he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by his father in a bombshell interview with Oprah. “I feel really let down because he’s been through something similar. He knows what pain feels like … Archie is his grandson,” Harry elaborated. “I will always love him. There’s a lot of hurt that’s happened. I will continue to make it one of my priorities to heal that relationship.”