Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly reached out to Kate,
the Princess of Wales before her royal return at the Trooping the Colour ceremony, the official birthday of King Charles III.
Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade and it was Princess Kate’s first official engagement of the year,
as she was diagnosed early 2024 with cancer and has been undergoing chemotherapy since.
Sky News Australia contributor, Louise Roberts, told Sky hosts Harry and Meghan want to let “bygones be bygones”, and put aside past differences.
She explained: “Meghan feels bad for Kate – I mean, she’d have to be completely heartless not to feel bad for her.”
Louise added: “But the issue now is that they want to actually patch things up, but, I have to ask, what’s the motive, and what’s in it for Kate?”
Sky News Australia contributor, Louise, discussed the motive further with Sky hosts. She questioned: “The only reason I could think she would maybe entertain some kind of reconciliation is for the sake of the children. So those little cousins can get to know each other and Charles as grandfather, can get to know his grandchildren in the US.”
Trooping the Colour marked Kate’s first public appearance this year, as she last stepped out on Christmas Day. She had to take a step back from public duties following major abdominal surgery in January and her subsequent cancer diagnosis.
Her attendance had been in doubt, as Kate has kept a low-profile since bravely telling the world that she had been diagnosed with cancer, but she previously shared a deeply moving personal statement where she confirmed her attendance.
Kate revealed she has “good days and bad days” undergoing gruelling chemotherapy for cancer but acknowledged she’s “not out of the woods yet”.
While she will not be returning to duties full-time, Kate does now feel well enough to undertake a small number of public engagements this summer. She said: “I am making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days.”
The Duke of Sussex has been estranged from the Royal Family ever since he and wife Meghan Markle quit their royal duties and moved to the US in 2020 where they now live with their two children.
The pair’s strained relationship with the Firm was damaged even more after they made a series of claims against the royals through TV interviews, their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan and the duke’s memoir, Spare.
Harry’s dislike of the press has led him to become even more distanced from his family, as he accused Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare of leaking information to paint herself in a more positive light.
Royal photographer Arthur Edwards also told The Sun how Harry and Meghan’s wedding was the “worst” one he had covered during his decades-long career due to his hostile feelings towards the media.
He explained: “It was the worst royal wedding I ever did because Harry was determined to keep the newspapers away from it as much as possible.
Mr Edwards added that he thought the press were “made to feel unwelcome”, saying: “It wasn’t just me, it was the whole of the British press. They were in many ways badly treated. I think Harry was angry because of some of the things that had been said about Meghan, and quite rightly – some of the things that were said about Meghan during the engagement were pretty harsh.”
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Source: USA Today