Prince Harry will have felt “very, very bad” over not being on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the Trooping the Colour, according to a royal biographer.
The Sussexes are back in the UK for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and are reported to be trying to keep a low profile so as not to take attention away from the celebrations.
Despite being critical of the Royal Family regularly in the US media, the Queen is believed to have been keen to see the Sussexes and meet their youngest child Lilibet for the first time.
Harry and Meghan spoke about their problems with other royals including in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The Duke of Sussex told the chat show host how he needed to "break the cycle" and bring up his family in a different environment.
But royal author Tom Bower has claimed that Harry should have been on the balcony at Buckingham Palace on Thursday and suggested that he has lost his way.
He also made out that it was the influence of Meghan Markle that has seen him distance himself from the Royal Family.
Mr Bower told Dan Wootton Tonight on GB News : "Harry should have been on parade, he should have been in uniform. That’s what his whole life was about. Meghan, in that sense, has undermined him completely and set him on the track against his own family."
The Sussexes watched on during the Trooping the Colour from the Major General’s Office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade, rather than having an active role.
They were missing from the Buckingham Palace balcony afterwards as this was reserved for working royals.
Meghan was pictured during the Trooping the Colour wearing a wide brimmed cream hat with a navy ribbon and Mr Bower claimed that she was trying to grab attention.
"I thought it was extraordinary how she thrust herself at the window with an oversized hat and a big smile and lowered the window of the car so she could be seen," he said.
"And here is this woman who hasn’t apologised for all the lies she told on Oprah Winfrey and all the terrible trouble she has caused the Royal Family – not least the racist allegations – and she just comes over here to promote herself.
"It will be very interesting to see, tomorrow and the rest of the weekend, whether the couple can actually recover and get into the limelight which is what they badly need for their own financial status as Royals in America."
The 96-year-old Queen appeared on the balcony alongside her family, but the Palace later said she had experienced a recurrence of mobility problems and some discomfort, and would no longer attend a Service of Thanksgiving on Friday.
She is reportedly likely, though, to meet with the Sussexes on Saturday for the first birthday of Lilibet.
