Prince Harry and Meghan Markle carried out their last engagements as a full-time, working royal couple this week, concluding their farewell tour officially at the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey and unofficially with an emotional goodbye lunch for their Frogmore Cottage staff.
The couple have now returned to Canada and are back with baby Archie who did not join them due to concern for his health amidst the global coronavirus outbreak.
However, there is good news for anyone hoping to see ten-month-old Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor soon - he and his parents will return to the UK sooner than expected!
The Times has reported that Harry and Meghan have accepted an invitation from the Queen to visit her this summer at Balmoral, her Scottish retreat, and are planning to take baby Archie with them.
The Queen tends to take her annual trip to the castle in the Scottish Highlands every year in time for trooping the colour, which falls this year on 13 June, and stay until late September or early October.
So Harry, Meghan and Archie could join her Majesty at Balmoral as early as mid-June. It will be the first time Archie, who turns one in May, will visit the royal Scottish residence as the Sussexes turned down last year's invitation when Archie was only a few weeks old.
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Throughout the summer, many members of the royal family - including Prince William and Kate Middleton - join the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral so we could also see Archie spending time with his cousins, George, Charlotte and Louis.
The Sussexes will also reportedly spend time with grandparents Charles and Camilla at the Prince of Wales's own residence on the Balmoral estate, Birkhall.
A source who spoke to The Times earlier this month about the choice to keep baby Archie in Canada while Harry and Meghan completed their final official engagements in the UK this month suggested the Queen was "very sad" so we can only imagine how well the news that Archie will be joining the Balmoral trip this year has gone down.
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