After Prince Harry‘s successful reunion with King Charles, the Duke of Sussex is planning to make major moves to reconnect with his home country. However, one person is allegedly standing in the way of it all: his wife, Meghan Markle.
“Harry’s been talking about spending more time in the U.K., possibly having a second home base there,” a source told gossip magazine Star. He’s contemplating “returning for good.” However, Meghan was reportedly left “shocked” that her husband “would even consider moving back to Britain after everything they’ve been through and how much work they’ve done to rebuild their lives in America.” But for the two, “they want different things.”
The source iterated that Harry “can be quite stubborn.” “Meghan isn’t one to back down either,” the source elaborated. “If this disagreement can’t be resolved, people around them fear it could lead to some explosive fights and maybe even divorce.”
The move apparently “is what Meghan feared would happen.” The Suits actress hasn’t returned to her beau’s home country since Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in 2022.
Rumors of Prince Harry moving back to the UK were exacerbated when the Invictus Games founder told The Guardian that he would like to bring his children back to his home. “Yes I would,” he told the publication. This week has definitely brought that closer.” However he emphasized, “the focus really has to be on my dad”. There were also rumors that Harry had already enrolled their son Archie, 6, at his alma mater Eton College. However a representative for the Sussexes confirmed to People that Harry does not have plans to enroll his son in school in the UK.
“Harry’s still buzzing off the back of his meeting with his father, and Meghan is pleased for him, to an extent,” a source told RadarOnline. “But, at the same time, she still worries the Palace could be using divide-and-conquer tactics, and it hasn’t helped that Harry has basically just thrown himself at their feet.
The source continued, “He’s clearly very homesick and desperate to build on the positives of the meeting, and it’s taking a lot of his focus away from their life in America.” However, for the Duchess of Sussex, the “biggest worry is that he’s been lured back in by the royals again and that they could drive a wedge between them. She feels like she’s losing him.”
“He can try to spin a fairy tale about a rosy reunion, but Meghan isn’t buying it – not after what she went through in the U.K,” they added. “On top of that, there’s the prospect of him being around all the courtiers who spent years planting stories in the press and making their lives miserable.
The source explains that Meghan still has a level of mistrust towards the firm. “Why should Meghan believe any of that changed? She never got an apology, and it hurts her now to see Harry behaving as though the slate has been wiped clean.”
Royal biographer Tom Bower told GB News that Harry has “separated himself” from Markle’s “crashing career.” After the host asked whether Harry had “painted himself into irrelevance” after he moved to the United States, Bower replied, “Well, he hasn’t, because when he comes here, he becomes a focus of attention. But of course, he is spare to Meghan or was, in her attempt to become the great television homemaker. But her series, her career, is crashing.”