The Wales family traveled up to Balmoral on Thursday, and I’m sure their visit won’t even last a week. They usually time their arrival in Scotland just before a weekend, so they can make an appearance at church on Sunday (and get photographed), then the family will leave soon after. In the Australian media, there’s some talk of last-minute crisis talks between King Charles and Prince William over the Sussex family’s return to the UK. But I’m not sure if I buy that. I think there are crisis talks between William, Kate, their staff and their favored royal reporters.

Interestingly, Hello’s Emily Nash claimed that she’s getting “complete radio silence” from William and Kate’s camp but she “imagines they’re not delighted about this.” She also says she hears that they were informed of the Reverse Sussexit soon after King Charles (on Sunday, allegedly). Again, they can’t have it both ways – either they were blindsided and that’s why they’re so mad, or they’ve known for days and their rage has been simmering amid a late-summer nervous breakdown. Pick one. Speaking of the smoldering rage, the Mirror’s Russell Myers had a big exclusive too (looks like the Kensington Palace WhatsApp isn’t so silent after all).

Prince William is adamant there can be “no way back” for Harry and Meghan to re-join the Royal Family – amid the drama of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s return to the UK. Royal sources have told how the Prince of Wales is “completely united” with the King in not allowing Harry and Meghan to achieve a ‘half in, half out’ role within the monarchy, after spending years railing against the institution.
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Friends of the couple have said while they “cannot forgive” the Sussexes for their hurtful accusations against the Firm, they are determined to “look forward to the future”. Charles and William were told at the same time on Sunday of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s plan to permanently relocate to Britain within weeks.

Sources close to the King and the Prince of Wales have confirmed the monarch and his heir are “in complete lockstep” in terms of not allowing Harry and Meghan to have a “half in, half out” role within the royal family.

Despite the “considerable noise” and “suspicions” over the Sussexes’ return, those close to the Prince and Princess of Wales maintain the couple remain focused on their own lives.

One source said: “Obviously the Sussexes’ return will make inevitable headlines for a few days, but it has no bearing on the prince and princess’ life moving forward. If anything, events that have affected them over the past couple of years have made them even more determined to concentrate on what is important to them, their family, their public roles and the ability to provide generational change for good with their public roles, and look forward to the future.”

Another source close to the Waleses said: “What Harry and Meghan choose to do is up to them. As far as William and Catherine are concerned they have left that period of their lives behind many years ago. While they simply can not forgive everything that has been against them and the family, they do not have the time or the energy for any negativity or the drama that the Sussexes surround themselves with. As they have demonstrated with their public roles, everything they are trying to do is about positivity and making the world a better place as far as they can.”

[From The Daily Mirror]

You know the sh-t has well and truly hit the fan when KP starts pushing “William and Charles are in total lockstep” talking points. Please, if nothing else, Charles is enjoying the waves of nervousness and panic coming off his heir and the heir’s bewigleted wife. Charles has been disgusted by their laziness for years now, and Charles knows that nothing lights a fire under them like “competing” with the Sussexes. As for all of this “I’M SO OVER HARRY AND MEGHAN, LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I DON’T THINK ABOUT THEM AT ALL” energy, it’s just sad. It’s always been sad.

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