Family Sharing - can't accept invitation

Hi,
I'm adding my wife and 2 kids to Family Sharing. The kids worked fine, but no matter how much I try I can't add my wife.
On the iPad i go to iCloud->Family->Add Family Member. I enter my wife's email address (a hotmail account) and an invitation gets sent to her. She accepts the invite, only to be told:
"Invalid Invitation. You are already part of this family. Go back to iCloud and tap on Family to review your family settings."
I go back to iCloud and under my wife's name it simply says "Invitation sent".
I've sent her around 20 invites now and she still hasn't managed to successfully accept any of them, either from the same iPad or her iPhone. I'd be really grateful for any suggestions on how we fix this problem. It seems totally stuck!
Thanks.

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