A retired US TV star has found a way for the House of Windsor to move forward and put behind it the myriad of damaging allegations made by the Duke of Sussex Prince Harry about his and his wife’s treatment by members of his own royal family.

I can report exclusively that the royal family has already accepted an offer of mediation made by Jerry Springer, host of the colourful and controversial TV show bearing his name.

The Jerry Springer Show ran on US television from 1991 to 2018 and was built around in-studio confrontations between friends or family members with an axe to grind.

My Buckingham Palace sources tell me that key members of the royal family have already shot one program with Mr Springer (second from right in main picture) coming out of retirement to host.

There are plans to shoot more episodes – possibly up to a total of six – if public reception to the first is positive.

“Mr Springer had been reading all the recent news reports about the troubles between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William and his father King Charles III,” a royal insider told me.

“He realised that he could lend a hand to resolving the problems by using his vast experience dealing with families facing similar fractures.

“So he quickly contacted Buckingham Palace and offered to come out of retirement to host the initial show in which the Duke of Sussex confronts and is confronted by his brother the Prince of Wales, his sister-in-law the Princess of Wales, and his father the King.”

I am told that the recording apparently went very smoothly, according to Mr Springer. Although I am also told that when Mr Springer talks of a show going “smoothly” he generally means it was full of people yelling abuse at each other and engaging in some physical pushing and shoving if not outright fist fights.

But the contents of the show are under wraps until it airs later this week after which a decision will be made about shooting further instalments.

My sources tell me an unforeseen problem has been that the so-far one-off Springer show has opened up even more rifts in the royal family.

Apparently Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward all now have their noses out of joint because they were not asked to appear.

All three believe they have been snubbed, citing their well-known willingness to take starring roles in embarrassingly tawdry and populist TV fare as evidenced by their appearances in 1987’s It’s a Royal Knockout. (below)