{"id":449637,"date":"2025-09-25T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:14:11","slug":"royal-family-live-prince-harrys-plot-to-flee-britain-and-drama-before-us-move-revealed-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449637\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry&#8217;s plot to flee Britain and &#8216;drama&#8217; before US move revealed | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> hatched a bold plan to flee Britain\u2019s relentless media storm, dreaming of a quieter life split between the UK and Cape Town, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/south-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>. Seeking a life unencumbered by royal duties while still serving the late Queen, they envisioned spending half the year in Africa, far from the tabloid glare and royal drama. Queen Elizabeth II endorsed the idea, but when Harry detailed the proposal in writing to his father, now <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a>, it leaked to the press, igniting a firestorm that crushed their hopes.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand briefly entered the conversation, but Africa held a special allure\u2014Harry\u2019s refuge since his mother\u2019s death and the source of the Botswana diamond in Meghan\u2019s engagement ring. In his memoir Spare, Harry later revealed how this scuppered plan pushed them towards their eventual move to Montecito, California, with their children, Archie and Lilibet. The taste of freedom lingered, leaving a bittersweet echo of what could have been beneath Cape Town\u2019s Table Mountain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG: SCROLL DOWN FOR REGULAR UPDATES<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hatched a bold plan to flee Britain\u2019s relentless media storm, dreaming of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[12467,86541,2204,151266,1281,2205,447,532,5105,7710,519,448,7717],"class_list":{"0":"post-449637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-harry-meghan-latest","9":"tag-harry-meghan-latest-news","10":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein-scandal","12":"tag-meghan-markle","13":"tag-prince-andrew","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-sarah-ferguson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115263233327604938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}