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While rumors are still swirling about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s potential return to the United Kingdom, don’t expect them to move back into their former home at Nottingham Cottage.
In his new book, Yes Ma’am: Upstairs Downstairs in the British Royal Family
, royal insider Tom Quinn claimed that an alleged past comment Meghan made calling her and Harry’s home at Nottingham Cottage on the Kensington Palace grounds was the start of the Sussexes’ years-long feud with Harry’s brother, Prince William. According to Quinn, Meghan allegedly called her and Harry’s home “tiny,” especially compared to the palace’s much-larger Apartment 1A where William, Kate Middleton, and their three kids—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis—were living at the time.
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Along with her displeasure over the size of Nottingham Cottage, the book also claimed that Meghan felt Kensington Palace staff treated Harry as less important than his brother, and cited their much smaller living space as an example of that mistreatment. The book also alleged that Meghan was the one who helped Harry realize his position as lesser than William, marking “the start of the whole grievance thing about being the spare.”
Quinn also alleged that Meghan created a “toxic environment” by barraging Kensington Palace with emails sometimes starting at 5 a.m. The emails allegedly reached William through a “dossier of distress,” which led to a confrontation between him and Harry.
The book’s revelations come after royal expert Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital in May 2025 that Harry and Meghan, who stepped down as senior members of the British royal family and moved from the UK to Santa Barbara, California, in 2019, won’t be “welcomed back” to the country by William if they choose to return. The short answer (is) will William forgive Harry and Meghan and welcome them back? A big fat royal no,” Turner said. “King Charles will have to overrule his petulant son once again if the Sussexes wish to make up and return.”
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A source also told the Daily Beast in July 2025 that William has no plans to “forgive” Harry for what’s transpired in their feud. “He absolutely f***ing hates” his brother. That same source also told the outlet that. “William will never, ever forgive Harry for what he has done. Charles is the king; he can do what he likes. But make no mistake: William believes with every fiber of his being that giving Harry and Meghan back any royal imprimatur is a huge mistake.”
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Rumors of Harry and Meghan moving back to the UK sparked after Grant Harrold, former royal butler to King Charles, told The New York Post in August 2025 that Harry is “quite keen” for hisand Meghan’s children—Archie and Lilibet—to be schooled in the UK. “It’s very likely and it’s completely possible because if they have their younger education in America, I’m sure their father will be quite keen to have a bit of a British education, but then it depends on how the relationship is with the rest of the family when the time comes,” Harrold said.
He continued, “Time will tell, but I’d like to think that they would get a bit of education here because royals normally do some gap year somewhere. The king famously went to Australia, so it is possible that coming to the UK could be part of that for Archie or Lilibet.”