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Princess Kate Wants Her Children to ‘Get to Know’ Prince Harry’s Kids: They ‘Deserve the Opportunity’
Prince William and Princess Kate‘s children might not have met up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s kids during their recent trip to the U.K., but now that the Sussexes have officially moved back to England, that could soon change.
“Kate’s telling [William] that the children deserve the opportunity to get to know their cousins,” a source tells Closer. “It was one thing when Archie and Lilibet were on another continent. It was easy to make excuses then. But now, they will be so close.”
On Tuesday, August 26, the BBC reported that Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, and their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, touched down in Birmingham, England via private jet.
The Wales’ ongoing estrangement from the Sussexes “is going to be very difficult to explain and justify to” Prince George, 13, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8, the source notes. “Especially when William and Kate have always emphasized how important it is for them to get along and now here is this example of the adults not being able to make peace.”
Harry and Meghan certainly haven’t made it easy.
After stepping down as senior working royals in 2020, the couple gave a now-infamous interview exposing their rift with Harry’s family. They later released a Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, detailing the tensions that led to their royal exit and in 2023, Harry published a best-selling memoir, Spare, that laid bare his strained relationship with William.
“[Kate] isn’t asking William to forget what has been said and done, but she is ready to forgive,” reveals the source, “and she’s very open about the fact that she wants him to get on the same page because the children are watching their every move.”
For the past six years, “Harry and his family and this whole issue has been out of sight, out of mind for so long, but that’s no longer going to be the case,” the source says, “and Kate feels it’s crucial they take the right stance for everyone’s sake, especially the children’s.”
