Not Without My Duchess: Prince Harry Won't Make a Royal Return 'Without Meghan' Markle Next to Him

When it comes to the monarchy, it's Meghan Markle or bust for Prince Harry.

"I don't think the British public are remotely interested in Harry at the moment, and if he did come back, it would have to be without Meghan," veteran royal expert Ingrid Seward shared. "Why would she want to come back to a country where she's constantly lambasted?"

The royal author also laid into reports suggesting the pair wanted to return to royal life as complete "rubbish," before adding, "He's 40 at the end of next week, and he's living in a paradise. Who'd want to be here right now? We'd all like to be living in California."

This insight follows reports about the Duke staying with his late mother's side of the family when he attended Lord Robert Fellowes' memorial service on August 29.

"Obviously he was going to stay at Althorp because it was Diana's anniversary," Seward continued. "William and Harry used to both go there and then they went there separately, I suppose. The Spencers said, 'We must look after Harry, we must make sure he feels he has a home here with us if no one else.' Which is understandable."

But it was Harry's no-contact, same-room reunion with his elder brother that has dominated recent royal news.

"The Oasis brothers had a frosty relationship for a great many years, and I suspect that William and Harry are going to have an even frostier relationship for a good few years," royal expert Charles Rae shared when comparing the princes' estrangement to the notorious falling out between sibling rock stars Noel and Liam Gallagher.

"For people to call it a reunion, it was hardly that," he added. "They were at the same place, it was a funeral, [and] they sat at the back. As I understand it, they didn't look at each other, and they certainly didn't talk to each other."

The expert also discussed the Duke of Sussex's "back and forth" with his intended travel plans earlier this week and how his surprise appearance at the future king-attended memorial service doesn't mean much at all.

"At the beginning of the week, when Harry was spotted at the airport, there was a big thing made that he was coming to New York to attend a UN climate change meeting, which doesn't happen till next week," Rae continued. "But his people were giving indications that he wasn't going to attend the funeral. So we all thought he's doing the right thing and taking any possibility of friction away from a funeral."

A source also pointed out, "Don't forget it was his [William's] idea, despite everything that had happened, to ask Harry and Meghan to join himself and Catherine for that walkabout at Windsor after Queen Elizabeth died. He did that knowing what his brother had done and that he planned to bring out his book. But he will always do the right thing in the circumstances."

Newsweek interviewed Seward.