They’re back. Perhaps not being welcomed at the Palace gates by heralding trumpets, or even a state banquet – but quietly, somewhere in Harry’s homeland, the Sussexes are establishing an alternative court.
Their children are already enrolled in school and the Duchess is reportedly eyeing a return to acting. Whether the British public will welcome them back remains to be seen, but far more important is whether they can broker a reconciliation with the Royal Family.
If the King’s statement was strained, the silence from the Prince and Princess of Wales has been louder. The gulf between the former “Fab Four” never looked wider.
“It’s not a row that’s going to be healed any time soon,” says Simon Vigar, Channel 5’s royal correspondent and author of The Four Wives of Windsor. He attended the famous “Fab Four” event in 2018, but says: “It’s very hard to imagine an event like that ever happening again, at least anytime soon.”
Six years across the ocean in Montecito has now been reduced to just a county’s distance – the Cotswolds (the Sussexes) to Norfolk (the Waleses). As royal watchers wait to see if the warring brothers can call a truce, as pertinent is whether the royal sisters-in-law’s rift can be healed.
