Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are ‘hopeful’ that crunch talks determining their new stripped-back role in the Royal Family can be thrashed out ‘sooner rather than later’, a source revealed tonight

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are ‘hopeful’ that crunch talks determining their new stripped-back role in the Royal Family can be thrashed out ‘sooner rather than later’, a source revealed tonight.

The Duke and Duchess’s announcement to ‘step back’ from their official duties and become ‘financially independent’ has thrown the Family into crisis, with the public demanding answers as to what their ‘progressive’ new role would be.

The Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William have held discussions to diffuse the situation and ordered Palace officials to quickly develop a ‘workable solution’ for Meghan and Harry’s future.

The three senior Royals closed ranks following Wednesday night’s bombshell Instagram statement, but today a steely-faced Her Majesty broke cover to drive her car through Sandringham – a move choreographed to play down the crisis and show she was continuing her activities as normal.

But behind closed doors, officials are working furiously to draw up a blueprint for Meghan and Harry’s future role.

Meghan has fled the fallout and returned to Canada on Thursday, where she will now be reunited with baby Archie, who she left in the country with a nanny and a friend.

Harry has had to postpone plans to join her because of a commitment to host the 2021 Rugby League World Cup draw next Thursday at Buckingham Palace.

A source close to the couple claimed Friday night negotiations between the Palace and the Sussex household are ‘progressing well’, in consultation with both the UK and Canadian government. 

They said: ‘They, like everyone, are hopeful this can all be worked out, sooner rather than later.

‘It is in everyone’s interest for this to be figured out, and figured out quickly, but not at the expense of the outcome.’ 

Her Majesty was pictured leaving Sandringham in Norfolk in her Land Rover at lunchtime, before driving along local country roads to a shoot in a field which was attended by guests including her grandson Peter Phillips. 

The Duke and Duchess have remained silent except for posting pictures on their Instagram of a secret trip to a Grenfell kitchen this week, before Wednesday night’s shock statement. 

Charles and William were both said to be left ‘incandescent with rage’ after learning about the Sussexes’ announcement just 10 minutes before it was published on the couple’s own Instagram page.  

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are understood to have left Archie in Canada to be cared for by their nanny and Meghan’s best friend, Jessica Mulroney.   

Ms Mulroney lives in Toronto but it is not known if she was with them in the £10million waterfront mansion in Vancouver they occupied between Thanksgiving and the new year. 

Harry and Meghan’s close confidante Tom Bradby claimed the Palace told the couple that there were plans for a ‘slimmed down monarchy’ and they ‘weren’t really a part of it.’

The ITV News presenter insisted that it was ‘certainly not true’ to suggest the royal household was ‘blindsided’ by their decision to step down from senior roles within the monarchy.

But blaming the decision to walk away from royal duties on the issue of a ‘slimmed down’ royal family may be seen as just a convenient excuse to leave their life behind in the UK and start a new life in North America.

Meghan flew from London to Canada in the hours after the Sussexes shocked the world and quit as senior royals, the Daily Mail revealed last night.

The couple horrified and shocked Harry’s family including the ‘hurt and furious’ Queen, who had begged them to delay announcing their ‘nuclear’ plans. Prince Charles and Prince William only got a copy of the statement ten minutes before it went live on their secretly developed website. 

Last night Her Majesty held a series of calls involving herself at Sandringham, Charles at his Scottish home Birkhall, William at Kensington Palace and Harry – without Meghan – at Frogmore Cottage. 

But as the abdication crisis rumbled on the Duke of Sussex was also plotting to fly out of Britain, it has emerged, although it is not yet confirmed when he intends to join his wife in Canada.

Meghan may stay there for the foreseeable future and Harry will not be apart from his wife and son for long – but he must also be at Buckingham Palace for an engagement next Thursday. 

On a day of behind-the-scenes drama, the monarch convened an extraordinary series of calls between herself, the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Harry. 

She told them to come up with a ‘workable solution’ to the crisis within days, and tasked aides with presenting a series of options to put to the unhappy couple.

Insiders last night predicted that Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, would be allowed to keep their royal titles and also enjoy a measure of the independence they have demanded.

But they added that the couple’s string of demands had sparked a genuine crisis which will not be easy to solve.

As a sign of how serious and sensitive the issue has become, Home Secretary Priti Patel has been asked to take part in the negotiations.

She will be tasked with ensuring the couple’s ongoing security is not compromised, but she also has to monitor the cost to taxpayers if they split their lives between the UK and North America.

The Mail can also reveal:

• The couple secretly registered their new Sussex Royal website as early as last March without telling the Royal Family;
• Harry ignored a personal request by the Queen to keep negotiations about his wish to break free private and not make a public statement;
• The couple also chose to disregard pleas from their closest aides on Monday night that they should hold off from releasing a statement out of respect for his grandmother;
• Sources said Harry had even suggested his mental health would be at risk if he didn’t facilitate a change in his position;
• The Royal Family are not planning to strip Harry and Meghan of their titles as courtiers fear it would look vengeful and reminiscent of the treatment meted out to Harry’s mother, Princess Diana;
• Scotland Yard will carry out a full review of the couple’s security as the costs of their taxpayer-funded police protection looked set to spiral into the millions.

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