He is angry’: Meghan Markle only allows King Charles to talk to Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet via FaceTime

A Sussex insider has shared a sad update about King Charles’ relationship with his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet amid Meghan Markle’s outright refusal to visit the United Kingdom.

Prince Archie, five, is understood to have met his grandfather a few times and Princess Lilibet, three, has only met the King on one occasion due to Meghan and Prince Harry’s estrangement from the monarchy.

The Sussexes “stepped back” from royal duties in 2020 and moved to California soon after Archie’s birth, while Lilibet was born in the United States and has never visited the United Kingdom.

On Friday, royal author Tom Quinn claimed that the King is privately encouraging his son to establish a second base in the UK to “circumvent” Meghan’s reluctance to visit London.

King Charles has been putting pressure on Harry to do just this as he is angry that his only relationship with his grandchildren so far is via video calls, which Charles hates,” Mr Quinn told the Mirror newspaper.

“William and Kate’s children would spend the weekend at Highgrove and Harry’s children could then easily pop over from their house nearby.

“This would neatly get round the problem of Meghan – she just wouldn’t need to be there and the children could be whisked back to the States after a week or two.”

The update comes after reports the Sussexes have been discreetly house hunting in the English capital after losing their former UK base Frogmore Cottage a year ago.