Prince Harry and Meghan Markle need to “apologise for everything they have said” before the chance of a potential royal return, an expert has claimed.

The Duke, 40, and Duchess of Sus𝑠e𝑥, 43, stepped down as senior working royals in 2020 – less than two years after Meghan joined the family.

Speaking on the Palace Confidential podcast, the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden delved into William’s lack of trust towards his younger sibling and noted: “I’ve been speaking to people about… the chances of a reconciliation between the brothers, but everyone really has made the same points that it won’t happen until Harry and Meghan really apologise for everything they have said.”

He added that this also needs to be done to potentially reconcile with the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Mr Eden added: “They need to apologise, at least privately, but also how can there be that reconciliation when William and Catherine just don’t know what will later appear in a TV programme or in a book? Genuinely, once you’ve lost that trust you’ve kind of lost it forever.”

He further explained: “Can you imagine what they were thinking about? Because, in his [Harry’s] memoirs, he had just revealed those intimate conversations that they never in a million years thought would have been published, so there really won’t be any welcome back.”

The first signs of a rift between Prince Harry and Prince William emerged around Christmas 2018. According to Harry, William did not make enough effort to welcome Meghan into the Royal Family.

The feud escalated further when Harry and Meghan stepped down from royal duties in January 2020 before moving to begin a new life in the US.

After a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Sus𝑠e𝑥es’ Netflix docuseries and, most explosively, Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare, relations remain strained.