This is such a misleading piece.
Headline implies a fiction that stoat is coming back to 'help' whilst the last sentence indicates the reality : stoat told Mrs stoat (when?) that he'd come back to help (if asked?) and she called presswire or newswire or whoever she uses.
GBN has tried to confect a story that implies POW and Chuck talked about inviting stoat over (or actually have?). GBN wasn't privy to what they call a 'secret' conversation so how would they know what was said?
Besides, I would have thought that the PC would have to be involved in any such insane decision! Heaven help them if they actually have invited stoat over...
I don't know what's happened to GBN lately but it does seem to be going off track. Bet they got A LOT of clicks on this one!
Last night the Palace refused to comment on reports that Harald would step up, and everyone has been quoted but the Monarch. He seems to be being fought over like a bit of meat by all the world and his wife, a bystander with no input or opinion. Ambushed by his vengeful son, aides blocking the Stoat, sources telling him to book into a hotel. As if.
The original 16th February article about C and William meeting to discuss a possible Stoat return was by Kate Mansey The Times royal Editor and DM Assistant Editor.
She also wrote the article 9th February about the Stoat returning to the UK for the Invictus Games Service in May, including this:
"The Sussexes’ son, Archie, four, was born in London. Their daughter, Lilibet, two, was born in California and has not visited Britain."
This sentence resulted in a an apology and the article being withdrawn iirc. She was telling the truth, as the Flatpacks did not come to the UK for the PJ, but was threatened with legal action (I believe by the Palace) for stating the truth.
I wonder where she got the information from about C and W meeting?
Did it happen, the idea floated, and was leaked? Nothing would surprise me either way, but moves can be carried out more easily under cover of confusion as we've seen.