The Sussexes are 'at a crossroad'

In the week marking six years since they announced their engagement, Harry and Meghan have a tell-all book to cope with - and bridges to build with the royals

- Lisa Blake

This week marks six years since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told the world the news they were engaged to be married.

But their engagement anniversary is set to be eclipsed by the release of their friend Omid Scobie's explosive book, Endgame. It promises to "pull back the curtain" on the royal family, an institution the book describes as "in turmoil".

Since announcing their engagement in 2017, life for Harry and Meghan couldn't be more different. After just over two years of working as senior royals, they controversially left the royal household and have since made a number of damning accusations about members of the royal family in interviews and a docuseries.

Harry's memoir Spare also had plenty of damaging revelations, including the claim that his older brother Prince William physically attacked him, driving the wedge created between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family even further.

However, hints of a reconciliation with King Charles appeared on the horizon two weeks ago when Harry called him on his 75th birthday to wish him many happy returns. Reportedly, the monarch also received a recorded video message from Harry and Meghan's children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, and there have been rumours that the couple wouldn't decline an invite to Christmas at Sandringham Palace if it was offered.

But royal expert Neil Sean, who works for Fox News, tells new that any hope of the families reconciling could be scuppered by Omid's new tell-all account.