Mr Bower didn’t hold back as he spoke exclusively to the Daily Express about the timing of the update.
He said: “I think Harry is desperate to use Meghan and his children at the Invictus Games in July to revalidate his royal status and is grasping at the sick King for that purpose.”
The question of the family’s return was also recently raised by a friend of King Charles. Speaking to the Daily Mail, they said: “If Harry truly wishes to see his father, he would do well to encourage his supporters to allow such matters to be discussed privately, since low trust and bitter experience in this regard remains one of the principal barriers to progress.”
Mr Bower’s comments about whether a return could be on the cards for the family come after his new book’s claims were publicly slammed by a spokesman for Harry and Meghan.
Explaining that the author has “long crossed the line from criticism into fixation”, the statement began: “This is someone who has publicly stated, ‘the monarchy in fact depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life,’ language that speaks for itself.
“He has made a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about people he does not know and has never met. Those interested in facts will look elsewhere; those seeking deranged conspiracy and melodrama know exactly where to find him.”
Speaking last month after Variety published a scathing report about the Sussexes, including how Netflix was allegedly “blindsided” by their explosive 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey, with “many annoyed by the lack of communication,” Mr Bower took aim at the pair’s “lack of original talent”.
He told the Daily Express at the time: “The Variety article endorses what I described in my book, Betrayal. The Sussexes are reaching the end of the road in Hollywood. Their behaviour, lack of original talent and suffocating self-importance has made it even more important for them to return to Britain in July, meet the King and be revalidated as royals.”
“That option, I believe, will be denied to them. They face an increasingly tough future. That’s the price of betraying the Royal Family since Megxit.”