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Prince Harry's children will never have a role to play in the Royal Family in the future until he reconciles with Prince William, he has been warned.

Insiders believe that even if Harry returns to the UK once his security detail is sorted out, the unpopularity of Meghan will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for the Sussexes to ever properly return to the royal fold and the effect on their children could be devastating.

They say going forward, the royal rift between Charles, William and Harry will make it impossible for their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to ever have a royal role in the new slimmed down monarchy of the future and that they cannot return to the royal fold while their parents remain at loggerheads with the King and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Prince George, who is second in line to the throne and a future king, does not even know his royal cousins across the pond who have grown up in Montecito, California, a world away from the Wales' children in Windsor. And while we often see all the children of the wider Royal Family together at family events like Christmas at Sandringham we only ever see obscured pictures of the Sussex children on Meghan's social media.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams has issued a stark warning over the future for Archie and Lilibet when they grow up.

He told the Express: "Harry will undoubtably be back in the UK now he has got his security sorted which paves the way for Meghan coming over but she is hugely unpopular so it is difficult to see how Archie and Lilibet would fit in to the family in the future."

Best-selling royal author Robert Jobson, whose latest book is called 'The Windsor Legacy', says he cannot see how Archie and Lilibet can really ever be a part of that legacy.

He told the Express: "These are children who have grown up in California, largely shielded from royal life as we understand it.

"Whether they would ever want a role - and whether the Palace would welcome it - depends entirely on what happens between their father and the King in the years ahead. Right now, that bridge looks a long way from being rebuilt.

"Could Archie and Lilibet ever return to the royal fold? It is not impossible. But it feels remote while the rift between Harry and the institution remains so deep."

Archie Harrison, Prince of Sussex, 6, and Lilibet Diana, Princess of Sussex, 4, have barely seen their cousins, George, Charlotte and Louis, let alone had the chance to form any meaningful relationship with them.

And while their mother Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, regularly posts photos and videos of them, they are not growing up in the royal goldfish bowl.

Due to the distance from California to the UK and the tensions between their parents, the Wales children have very limited knowledge of the Sussex children, with reports suggesting they have never even met Lilibet.

"It's so sad that the Wales' kids basically know very little about their cousins across the pond and are never likely to be close to them," royal author Phil Dampier told Fabulous magazine.

"Although they were invited to Lilibet's first birthday party at Frogmore Cottage, they did not go," Dampier alleged.

Instead George, Charlotte, and Louis have formed close bonds with Zara and Mike Tindall's children, Mia, Lena, and Lucas. "In many ways the children of Zara and Mike Tindall have replaced Archie and Lilibet as the closest cousins of George, Charlotte, and Louis," Dampier explained.

"It's something Archie and Lilibet are missing out on and you just wonder if in years to come, when they grow up, they will start asking their parents why they are estranged from the Royal Family."