Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be worried that they are being pushed out of the Royal Family after being relegated to low down the list of names on the Palace website, an expert has claimed.
Charles is likely to make it clear to them that they are not working royals and cannot have a “semi-official” role, said royal biographer Phil Dampier.
The Royal Family website features a list of significant adult royals, each with their own "about" section, and until recently the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had featured around the middle of the rankings, below senior members.
But when the website was reworked following the death of the Queen, the pair were relegated to the second and third-lowest spots, just above Andrew in the new rankings.
They are now below for example the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra.
The Sussexes and Andrew are not the only ones to have been affected by the shake-up - as Prince Michael of Kent, 80, and his wife, Marie-Christine, have been removed from the page completely as they are not working royals.
The key for Harry and Meghan as well is that they have chosen to move away to the United States and Charles appears likely to follow the Queen’s view that they can’t have one foot in and one out of the Royal Family.
“Harry and Meghan must be worried that they are slowly being eased out of the royal picture,” Mr Dampier told The Sun.
"The King will want to make it clear that they are not working royals and can’t pose as semi-official royals.
"They are relegated to the bottom of the league table with disgraced Prince Andrew and at the moment there is no way of them climbing up it."
The Sussexes had once been just below William and Kate on the Royal Family list, when residing in the UK - but they were soon placed down below the Wessexes and Princess Anne after their decision to move to the United States.
It was purely coincidence that the Sussexes were in the UK for charity work when the Queen died and there are reports that during the monarch's death there has been some improvement between Harry and Meghan and the other royals.
King Charles saw "tremendous flickers of hope" and he was “buoyed” by the meeting that he had with Harry and Meghan, it is claimed.
An insider has told The Telegraph : "It remains the case that the King loves both of his children. Over the last 16 days or so, there were tremendous flickers of hope. In terms of the future, there is hope of a cause for unity."
