Birmingham release tickets for 2022 Commonwealth Games

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex dramatically stepped down from the Royal Family last year, sending shockwaves through Buckingham Palace. Meghan, 40, and Harry, 36, now live in Montecito, an exclusive neighbourhood in California known for it’s A-list residents, including the couple’s friend Oprah Winfrey. The Sussexes have chosen the celebrity bolthole to raise their son Archie Harrison, two, and daughter, Lilibet Diana, two months.

However, questions have been raised in recent months over whether the couple will make the journey back across the Atlantic next year for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Harry was reunited with his grandmother at the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip in April – his first visit to the UK since he and Meghan left the Firm.

Meghan, who was heavily pregnant at the time, did not make the trip on the advice of doctors.

The Queen has extra reason to celebrate in 2022, as the Commonwealth Games are held in Birmingham.

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However, according to royal historian Hugo Vickers, Meghan and Harry’s exit from the Royal Family means they might have blown their chance to be good ambassadors for the Commonwealth.

He told Express.co.uk: “Harry and Meghan could have done a fantastic job in the Commonwealth, they were both very committed to it, but it seems that wasn’t good enough for them and I don’t understand that.”

Mr Vickers is a writer and royal commentator, who has written a string of biographies of twentieth century figures, including the Queen Mother.

He was also made chairman of both the Jubilee Walkway Trust and Commonwealth Walkway Trust.

Mr Vickers, who led the establishment of walkways to mark the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, has suggested that Harry and Meghan will become less significant as time goes on.

He added: “I think the most successful members of the Royal Family are those who support the Queen without competing with her and there are a number of them who do that very, very well.

“When they start competing with her and setting up rival courts and things – a bit like Diana to some extent and certainly Harry and Meghan – it doesn’t really work very well. It’s not very constructive.

“The Queen can’t do all the things that people want her to do, because people don’t want people like mayors or lord lieutenants to open supermarkets.

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“What they really want these days is either royalty or stars, celebrities, and best of all royalty because celebrities tend to come and go.

“So, the Queen hasn’t got time to do all the things that she’s asked to so her family take on all these other responsibilities on her behalf and they support her.

“She hasn’t had Prince Philip helping her for some years so now that he’s gone you will see other members of the Royal Family stepping forward to be with her.

“Like Prince William was with her in Scotland and things like that, and that’s exactly as it should be.

“A life of service as opposed to a self-service – that’s the difference, they are doing things for themselves, setting up their own foundations and they are in the centre of it.

“All the other members of the Royal Family seem to me to be doing things for us, which is more effective.”
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