EXCLUSIVE: Brand Expert Reveals Why Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Must Seek 'Forgiveness' from King Charles

Royal insiders say one family lunch won't undo years of public fallout.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are being told reconciliation with King Charles will require more than soft-focus symbolism – and that the next step may have to be an apology.

The 41-year-old Duke and 44-year-old Duchess of Sussex recently met Charles, 77, and Queen Camilla, 79, at Highgrove with their children, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, in what was widely read as a tentative thaw after years of rupture.

The family split hardened after the couple stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the US, then deepened through interviews, memoir claims and bitter public criticism of the institution, leaving the King to balance private feeling with public authority during his reign.

Sharon Williams, the founder and chief executive of Taurus Marketing, has now said there was now a “need to ask for some forgiveness” if the Sussexes wanted to keep moving toward Charles.