King Charles ‘just offered’ Harry a huge olive branch – can you blame him for caving in?

If the King does roll out the royal red carpet for Harry and Meghan at Balmoral this summer, is he giving in too much, too soon?

Harry and Meghan could soon be welcomed back with open arms (Image: Getty)

When Prince Harry returns this summer to mark a year before the UK’s 2027 Invictus Games, his wife Meghan, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet may also tag along. If they do, it’s rumoured King Charles and Queen Camilla may thaw the current icy relations, after years of the Sussexes’ bitter public score-settling, by extending an olive branch.

The venue of Balmoral is crucial – as Charles’ most personal residence, it signals “trust, forgiveness, and a genuine desire to heal”, according to royal expert Rob Shuter. Certainly, royal insiders claim Prince William is “strongly opposed” to the idea of rolling out the red carpet at Charles’ Scottish home.

For the Prince of Wales, it is “too much, too soon” amid fears it could “reopen wounds that have barely begun to heal”.

But after years of a Cold War between the Californians in self-imposed exile and Buckingham Palace, can you blame Charles for wanting his wayward son back in the fold?

But if you throw your toys out of the pram, is it the parents’ responsibility to pick them up off the floor and apologise for all the mess?

If – halfway through playing footie with your friends and 5-0 up – you stroppily grab the ball and walk off home in a pique of petulance…. should you be expecting your pals to knock on and say sorry?

When Harry, 41, and Meghan, 44, made their explosive Megxit, their desire was to escape toxicity, racism, danger and media scrutiny. Strangely, they opted for America, where you’re 100 times more likely to die from gun violence than in the UK.

Privacy-obsessed Harry once compared his royal life to a “mixture between The Truman Show and being in a zoo” so they have spent years building a ring of steel while amassing their multi-million-pound fortune.

The family were together during the Queen’s funeral. (Image: Getty)

While in the UK this summer, King Charles may offer Harry and Meghan the use of his Gloucestershire country estate, Highgrove House.

Highgrove House (tick), a welcome visit to Balmoral (tick) and a king’s apology (lots of ticks!) – could Harry and Meghan have ever dreamt of anything more? Apart from Netflix filming the whole thing, I doubt it.

Some will rightly argue that “the Sussexes made their beds in the US – they can lie in them.”

But if Charles does make his “kingly gesture”, two things are certain.

Firstly, Harry and Meghan can no longer argue they’ve been frozen out.

And secondly, without the ability to position their ‘brand’ as US-based victims of a supposedly ‘mean, racist, royal institution’ …. will they have a sob story worth flogging anymore?