Several experts believed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry needed the royal family more than the institution needed them and they probably realized it during the Platinum Jubilee celebration. There are rumors about them serving the monarchy during Prince Charles' reign, but the Prince of Wales might not agree with a six-month arrangement.
Prince Charles Might Take Back Prince Harry And Meghan Markle
According to Omid Scobie, co-author of Finding Freedom, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle didn't want to leave their royal lives. However, they wanted to work part-time because they wanted to work on their personal goals and be financially independent. However, Scobie told People the Queen vetoed the royal couple's "one foot in, one foot out" approach.
The move wasn't surprising to royal biographer Tom Quinn. According to the Scandals of the Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving Badly author, the Queen "grew up with this sense that you're either in fully or out fully." However, he predicted that there would be changes in Prince Charles' reign. He speculated that the Prince of Wales might take back Prince Harry and Markle and allow them to work part-time, so they could divide their year between the U.K. and the U.S.
"It would be better to say to Harry, 'OK, we’ll do it the way you want to do it. You can be here for six months,'" Quinn told Us Weekly. "It's not as if being a working member of the royal family involves anything politically sensitive or controversial, because really, when they're full-time royals, they open hospitals. They, you know, give their names to charities. So that is possible that, that they could do that for half the year and, you know, do their other stuff in America."
Prince Charles Unlikely To Allow Prince Harry And Meghan Markle With Six-Month Arrangement
Royal pundit Lady Colin Campbell, who has written several royal books, including Meghan and Harry: The Real Story and The Real Diana, doesn't think a six-month arrangement is feasible. In a Q&A on her YouTube channel, one follower asked about Prince Charles wanting to fix his relationship with his youngest son.
The netizen noted that the six-month arrangement — allowing the Sussexes to live in the U.K. for six months and move back to California for the remainder of the year would give the Prince of Wales the opportunity to bond with Prince Harry and his family.
Campbell agreed that Prince Charles "loves his son and would dearly have loved" to fix their relationship. But she doesn't think the six-month arrangement will work.
"I have great reservations that there is any six-month in, six-month here, six-month there actually planned," Campbell explained. "I don't see how it would work I don't think it's gonna happen. Maybe back and forth, but six months here, six months there, except as a precursor to a divorce, I'm sorry, I don't see it happening. I really don't think it's going to happen. I think it's 'pie in the sky.'"
Will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle be able to serve the monarchy under Prince Charles' reign? How would they make it possible?
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