Following the news that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, were not invited to King Charles III's Trooping the Colour birthday parade, many wondered if that was a sign that the monarch is not playing games anymore and is now completely done with the Sussexes.
Now, a commentator is claiming that the royals have a "strategy" going forward and will "alienate" Meghan and Harry because their plan doesn't include them.
Relations between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Harry's family haven't been great since the pair announced they were stepping down in 2020. Things went from bad to worse following their televised sit-down with Oprah Winfrey and other media interviews they did.
However, they were still invited to the 2022 Trooping the Colour. Although their status as non-working royals wasn't what they were used to as they were banned from appearing on the Buckingham Palace balcony and seated in the second row away from Harry's father and Prince William at the Service of Thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth II's reign. The British public wasn't too welcoming either and the couple was booed as they left St. Paul's Cathedral.
Three months later, Queen Elizabeth died. After a number of family gatherings to say goodbye to the monarch, the duke and duchess traveled back to their home in the U.S. And then they took aim at the royal family again with their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan and the prince's tell-all memoir Spare.
Still, King Charles invited them to his coronation, which only Harry attended, and people had hoped for a reconciliation. When that did happen, many wondered when and if the Palace was going to distance itself from the Sussexes or just keep taking the hits.
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Writer and commentator Esther Krakue was a guest on Sky News Australia's The Rita Panahi Show and said that the monarchy is "clearly" on a path forward without the Sussexes as well as another royal.
Krakue claimed: "The royal family as an institution is clearly on a path and clearly trying to pursue a certain strategy which alienates the likes of the Sussexes and Prince Andrew.
"I suspect that even if relations were warmer, [Harry] still wouldn't be invited. He's not a working royal; I don't think he has any way back into the royal family."
She added: "The royal family [is] trying to just get on with business and ignore the peripheral royals that really shouldn't be in the public eye and also tensions are still running high between the Sussexes and the royal family."