Despite the fact that Queen Elizabeth was “hurt” by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to step down as senior royals last year, and the fact that they have since repeatedly trashed the royal family in interviews, the 95 year-old monarch has reportedly dropped a major hint that she is ready to forgive them.

The Express reported that even after all that has happened, the Queen has still invited Harry and Meghan to her Platinum Jubilee celebrations next year, which will mark 70 years on the throne. This is the first time in history that a British monarch has reached this milestone, and it will be a four-day celebration for the Queen.

This will give Meghan and Harry the opportunity to reconnect with the royal family. Relationship expert Sami Wunder said that what the Queen shows in terms of her relationship with the couple is “most important” because, as head of the family and the nation, she lays down the example for others in it to follow.

Wunder added that inviting Meghan and Harry to the celebration was “loving and kind and welcoming” and doing what a Queen would do.

“I think the fact that the Queen invited them for her Platinum Jubilee is a very positive sign to show the world that these guys are family and all families have conflict and all families have resentment or some form of hurt emotions, but it’s still family,” she said. “So I think that is the biggest sign for everybody else watching that there will be reconciliation.”

“And the Queen ‒ I mean, you can talk about the bureaucracy and you can talk about the Palace and Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace but it’s more important that the head, the monarch, is very much giving them the love and recognition they deserve as family,” Wunder added. “And I think that’s the most important, that’s what a queen would do and I think the Queen is showing that she is Queen and she is loving and kind and welcoming and I believe the couple will show up for this event.”

Relationship expert Neil Wilkie said that for Harry to repair his relationship with his older brother Prince William, however, one of them needs to step up and make the first move.

“It has to be in secret, it has to be the two of them together, nobody else there,” he said. “But they both need to focus on what they actually want in the future and where there are arguments which run through families ‒ sometimes for generations ‒ often the original reason for the argument gets lost but it just becomes a place that people can’t move from.”

“So by focusing on the future and the relationship the two of them want to have in the future that may help them leave the past behind,” Wilkie continued. “And, you know, you can also get caught in the blame game. Whose fault was it? Should Harry have been on Oprah, etc? Again, that takes you back to the past and you need to accept that you can’t change what’s happened but you can change how you allow it to affect you in the future.”