Prince Harry has reportedly kept “communication channels open” with his family across the pond in a move which has been described as a “positive thing” by a royal expert.

The Duke of Sussex may be estranged from the Royal Family and the Windsors, however, it seems like his relationship is not as frosty with his mother’s side, the Spencers.

Last month, Harry secretly dashed back home to attend a memorial service for his late uncle, Lord Robert Fellowes in Norfolk and according to reports, he stayed at Althorp House, the Spencer family’s ancestral manor and the childhood home of his late mother Princess Diana.

The late Princess of Wales was laid to rest on a small island in the ornamental lake known as The Round Oval, which is located within Althorp Park’s gardens.

Now a royal expert noted that the Duke of Sussex and the Spencers must be in “regular contact” following Harry’s latest trip and branded it a “positive thing”.

Jennie Bond told OK!: “When Diana’s coffin arrived back at Althorp and the gates closed behind the hearse, Earl Spencer said simply: ‘Diana is home.’

“And he has clearly honoured his pledge that her blood family would allow William and Harry to experience as many different aspects of life as possible and to let their souls sing openly as she had planned.”

The royal expert added: “Quietly, behind the scenes, it is obvious that the Spencer family have kept the communication channels open with Harry and that their affection for him is reciprocated.

“I’m sure Harry feels it’s important that he still has some kind of anchor here in the UK and, for now at least, it seems that it is with his aunts and uncle.

“And that has to be a positive thing.”

Meanwhile, Harry’s tumultuous relationship with the royals was said to be apparent during their attendance at Lord Fellowes’s, the brother-in-law of Diana’s, funeral.

Prince Harry and Prince William did not exchange a single word even though they were standing close to each other, according to a source.

The mourner told The Sun: “They were only five yards from each other.”

At one point the princes were standing “virtually back to back” at the wake but both left separately without seemingly speaking to one another.