{"id":107158,"date":"2026-08-20T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/107158\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:00:17","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-will-return-to-the-uk-with-their-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/107158\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan will return to the UK with their family"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince Harry<\/a> and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom<\/a> for an extended stay starting this fall, but they won\u2019t resume their roles as working members of the royal family, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, have already enrolled at British schools and will start classes in September, according to a person close to the Sussexes who was not authorized to speak publicly. The family plans to live at a private, non-royal residence outside of London, but plans to maintain their home in Montecito, California, and their vacation property in Portugal.<\/p>\n

The Daily Telegraph first reported the story. When asked to discuss the reports by the AP at a roundtable event with U.S. veterans in Washington Wednesday night, Harry replied, \u201cNothing to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan gave up their royal duties and moved to California more than six years ago to earn their living through lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify. Although relations with the rest of the royal family have soured since then, Harry has recently expressed an interest in reconciliation<\/a> so he could spend more time with his father, King Charles III<\/a>, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Charles was informed of the couple\u2019s plans on Sunday. Harry and Meghan visited<\/a> the U.K. last month.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace has a policy of not commenting on speculation about non-working members of the royal family. A representative for Harry and Meghan declined to comment.<\/p>\n

According to a source close to the Sussexes, Meghan will continue heading her As Ever company from the U.K., while Harry can spend more time working with his U.K.-based charities.<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan have had a stormy relationship with the royal family ever since they decamped to a mansion in the exclusive Southern California enclave of Montecito. <\/p>\n

In a series of interviews and Harry\u2019s memoir \u201cSpare,\u201d the couple said they left Britain to escape the restrictions of royal life and criticized palace officials for being insensitive to Meghan\u2019s mental health while alleging that at least one member of the royal family had expressed racist views when she was pregnant with their first child. Meghan describes herself as biracial.<\/p>\n

Those tensions were exacerbated by Harry\u2019s long-running legal battle with Britain\u2019s tabloid newspapers, which he alleges illegally hacked his phones and invaded his privacy when he was younger. The prince has lost a series of lawsuits against the media, including one against the publisher of the Daily Mail, which concluded last month. <\/p>\n

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The latest trial has left Harry facing a potential bill for millions of pounds after the court ruled he and other plaintiffs in the case were liable for the publisher\u2019s legal fees. Associated Newspapers has filed documents showing that its legal costs amounted to 34.5 million pounds ($47 million). <\/p>\n

Harry has also been embroiled in a legal wrangle with the British government after a government committee refused to authorize police protection for the prince and his family when they are in the U.K. The prince says he and his family need armed police protection because they are at risk simply because they are members of the royal family, regardless of whether they are working royals.<\/p>\n

After losing a court battle over the security issue last year, Harry said he hoped to rebuild relations with his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love reconciliation with my family. There\u2019s no point in continuing to fight anymore,\u201d Harry told the BBC. \u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer my father has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Harry returned to the U.K. for a series of charity engagements. Meghan and the children joined Harry for part of the visit and they spent time with the king at his Highgrove estate in western England. It was the first time Archie and Lilibet had seen their grandfather since the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s platinum jubilee in 2022.<\/p>\n

While Harry has recently met with his father, there are no signs of a warming of relations with his brother, Prince William, the heir to the throne.<\/p>\n

Peter Hunt, a former BBC royal correspondent, said the surprise announcement would make William \u201capoplectic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the short term, Harry will be able to deepen his rapprochement with his father,\u201d Hunt told Britain\u2019s Press Association. \u201cAnd his presence back home will make it harder for his brother to duck a reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pollard reported from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[35693,7846,10218,103,44,1049,424,3053,44508,2594,8416,72,6859,5,6,46],"class_list":["post-107158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-children","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-lifestyle","tag-media","tag-peter-hunt","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-schools","tag-u-s-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117126078539588021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}