Some eyebrows were raised when it was revealed that Meghan Markle would not be traveling back to the United Kingdom with her husband Prince Harry to attend the funeral of his grandfather Prince Philip, but experts are now saying that she made the right decision given the fact that she is currently about six months pregnant with her second child.

While Harry arrived in the U.K. on Sunday, Meghan stayed behind at their home in California, where she is planning to give birth to their baby girl early this summer.

“The pregnancy has given Meghan a very real reason not to be here and I do feel for her,” True Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen told Fox News. “No matter what her decision was going to be, critics would have used it against her.”

Bullen went on to say that he feels that the royal family would have welcomed Meghan with open arms had she been able to travel, despite her explosive tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey about them last month.

“I think if she had come back, I believe the family would have been very welcoming towards her,” Bullen explained. “The queen made it very clear in her statement that Harry and Meghan are much loved members of the royal family and they are always welcome in their family. So I do think she would have been welcomed back. All anybody wants right now is for the damage to be repaired and for everybody to move forward.”

Royal writer Leslie Carroll also said that Meghan made the right decision in not going.

“Meghan is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t, no matter the topic,” Carroll lamented. “She’s obviously several months pregnant, certainly well into her second trimester. My understanding is [she’s staying behind] out of an abundance of medical caution. She’s already miscarried within the past year and we’re still in the midst of a pandemic. It would be prudent for her to avoid the ordeal of international travel.”

Carroll went on to add that Meghan does not need to physically be at the funeral to show her support for the royal family during this difficult time.

“Harry has already suffered so much loss that any reasonable person who understands the love that he and Meghan share will recognize that she can and does support him in his time of mourning for his grandfather, without physically standing by his side at the duke’s memorial service,” she explained. “The flamethrowers might want to imagine how emotionally ruined a man like Harry might be if Meghan did risk traveling with him and something happened to her health and/or to that of the child she is carrying – their unborn daughter.”