The Royal Family will use events around the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to bring Harry and Meghan closer to the rest of the family, according to one expert.

After years of bad blood, Kate Mansey, assistant editor at the Mail on Sunday says she believes that the Queen wants a rapprochement with the Sussexes who quit royal working life in 2020.

‘There is generally a sense that they want to bring the Sussexes in, I think. They will be invited to lots of family occasions, just not the big, official numbers,’ she tells our royal talk show Palace Confidential.

(How many family occasions will there be?

We've already been told that Prince William and Catherine will visit Wales, the Earl and Countess of Wessex will go to Northern Ireland, and the Princess Royal will visit Scotland during the Jubilee weekend and that Charles and Camilla will likely attend events in London.

The working royals aren't going to have a lot of free time to play Happy Families with Harry, his wife and kids.)

That doesn’t mean the initial encounters won’t be awkward says the Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English, with much speculation about how the Sussexes will interact with the rest of the royals at a Jubilee thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral on June 3.

(Do we know that the service at ST Paul's has been designated a "family" event and/or that the California branch of the family will attend?)

‘But as one source said to me the other week, the body language is going to be fascinating. I just hope for the Queen’s sake it doesn’t overshadow everything else that’s going on over the weekend.’

(So, stop writing about them. Celebrate the 70 years the Queen has reigned and find something that happened during those 70 years to write about)