The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is said to be ‘really worried’ over her children building relationships with the extended royal family, claims a royal expert.

Meghan and Harry stepped back from royal life in 2020, and now reside in Montecito, California with their two children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Whilst Archie was just one when the royal couple decided to bow out of being working royals and move to the US, for their youngest child Lilibet has only ever known life in California.

Royal expert Tom Quinn exclusively told the Mirror: “She is also really worried that her children will have no real relationship of any kind with their cousins George, Charlotte and Louis – Meghan loves the idea of having a big happy family and hates it when people describe her childhood and her family as dysfunctional. She’s terrified history is going to repeat itself.”

The Duchess is said to be ‘really worried that her children will have no real relationship’ ( 
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He added: “A friend of the couple – one of Meghan’s few aristocratic friends from her time in the UK – told me Meghan does miss some aspects of life in the UK and worries that her children will blame her if they never get to see their cousins and feel as adults that they have been deprived of what might have been a fun and meaningful existence in the UK as working royals.”

Meghan and Harry’s relationship with the royal family has been strained in recent years, especially following controversial comments made in interviews, their Netflix series and in Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’ which he released last year. In the wake of some of the couple’s revelations, it’s seen the relationship between Harry and his older brother William even more strained.

The family of four live in Montecito, California ( 
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Meghan is also said to be worried ‘her children will blame her if they never get to see their cousins’ ( 
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SplashNews.com)Next month Harry is due to visit the UK to celebrate 10 years of the Invictus Games. The Duke will speak at 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games special service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on May 8. It’s not been confirmed whether Meghan will join Harry or whether he will make the trip alone, leaving Meghan in California with their two children Archie and Lilibet. Meghan is thought to be less than keen to visit the UK, whilst her husband Harry has only made a handful of trips since they stepped back from royal duties four years ago.

The Duke of Sussex’s upcoming visit comes with the recent loss Harry had in a legal bid to appeal against High Court’s UK security ruling in February. In 2020, the British government told him, he would no same kind of publicly funded police protection when is in the UK after giving up his status asa working member of the royal family.