Prince Harry is "unlikely" to return to the UK this year - despite the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations - due to his upcoming memoir, an expert has said.
Since Harry and wife Meghan Markle quit as senior royals and started a new life in California in 2020, the prince has only returned to Britain twice.
Both of those times he came alone with Meghan staying at home with son Archie, who also hasn't returned to the UK since moving to the US.
Meanwhile, the couple's eight-month-old daughter Lilibet, who was born in California, has never been to Britain - nor has she met her great-grandmother the Queen or grandfather Prince Charles.
Later this year, Harry is releasing a tell-all memoir that is promised to be accurate and "wholly truthful".
Sources say there is a "tsunami of fear" within royal circles about what Harry will say in the bombshell book.
And royal author Tom Bower says given the upcoming book, he doesn't think Harry will return to the UK this year.
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He told Closer magazine : "I think Harry won’t come back because he knows he cannot face his family, and be pleasant with them, knowing what he’s written about them in that book.
“That book will have a lot of casualties and cause a lot of hurt. It will really deliver, as Harry knows it has to, to justify the money he’s been paid to do it.
"How can Harry come back and pretend it’s all fine? The worst of what he will say is yet to come.”
Last month, Mr Bower, who is currently writing a biography of Meghan, also claimed she has no plans to return to the UK as Britain is a lost cause for her.
Writing in the Sun, he said: "At the moment, Meghan’s ultimate destination is unclear, but she certainly has the backing to make a bid to star as an American politician.
"In parallel, Britain is a lost cause for the Sussexes.
"In truth, I suspect Meghan no longer cares whether she is welcome in London.
"She has no intention of returning."
However, he does point out that while public opinion about Meghan in the UK might not be favourable - in the US she is still admired.
He adds that Harry and Meghan's mini-tour of New York last year was deemed a success and that she has solid support among "Democrats, minorities and the young".
Mr Bower is one of the country's most well-known biographers, having released in-depth unauthorised life stories of famous figures like Richard Branson and Boris Johnson.
He also isn't a stranger to writing about royal figures as he released Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles in 2018.
