Just a few days ago, it was revealed that Princess Kate is reported to have described one public reunion with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as "one of the hardest things I've ever done."

The comment refers to a joint walk the Welsh and Sussex families took in Windsor a few days after the Queen's sad passing.

However, one royal expert reminds us that the difficulty was not only about the fractured relationship between the two couples, but about the loss that all four had just suffered.

"It was probably very awkward, but at the same time they were mourning themselves," Christine Ross noted on the Us Weekly podcast "Royally Us" (via Express).

"The Queen was William's grandmother. William, Kate, and now the late Queen.

"They were very close and I'm sure it was a devastating loss."

For Ross, this aspect was all a major factor in the difficult undertaking.

"They had to go out in public, put on a brave face and smile, and meet these crowds that if you've ever been to a royal event, if you've ever seen flash photography going on, it's overwhelming," the expert continued. [and then there was the added element of personal discourse between the two couples, which, I imagine, was not the most difficult thing to do, but it was very difficult."

"The emotional burden, the emotional weight must have been really overwhelming."

This was just as Robert Jobson's new book, Our King, was released, in which the author writes, "Princess Catherine later told a senior royal that bad feelings between the two couples The joint outing was one of the hardest things she had ever done, she wrote, "because of the bad feelings between the two couples.

Sigh.