Queen Camilla is said to have quietly positioned herself as a 'witness' during King Charles' tense reunion with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their children at Highgrove in Gloucestershire last week, according to royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith.
Buckingham Palace only confirmed in bare-bones terms that the King and Queen had welcomed Harry, Meghan, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to the private estate, and that the gathering had taken place. Harry's recent visit to the UK, framed by long-running family tensions and his decision to step back from royal life, had been so fraught that many observers doubted any meeting would happen at all, let alone one involving the Sussex children.
