{"id":93515,"date":"2025-05-11T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93515\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:54:08","slug":"meghan-markles-major-fear-for-prince-archie-about-his-former-uk-home-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93515\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s major fear for Prince Archie about his former UK home | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal author and commentator Tom Quinn previously told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/us-celebrity-news\/meghan-markle-doesnt-want-britain-32801234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mirror<\/a>: &#8220;Archie loves the idea that his grandad lives in a castle and Meghan was worried that a magnificent shepherd&#8217;s hut or similar extravagant present will only increase Archie&#8217;s growing interest in his royal connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t want Britain to become a longed-for fantasy for her son so she had been pushing Harry to insist that his father get Archie a simple present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Charles is desperate to show he cares and he wants to be an indulgent grandparent, partly because he has mellowed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;King Charles hasn\u2019t seen his grandson Archie since 2022 and Archie really misses him \u2013 many of Archie\u2019s books are about kings, princesses and castles and he knows enough to know that his grandfather lives in a castle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Archie is thought to have last visited the UK in June 2022, a visit that coincided with the late Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s Platinum Jubilee and Princess Lilibet&#8217;s first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>According to royal expert Jennie Bond, the King has endured &#8220;great sadness&#8221; over the lack of relationship that he has with his two youngest grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking previously to the Mirror, Ms Bond said that the King &#8220;hardly knows&#8221; Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;The early years in a child\u2019s life are so magical &#8211; and once they\u2019re gone, they\u2019re gone. I hope the King doesn\u2019t dwell on his loss too much, but it must hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal author and commentator Tom Quinn previously told The Mirror: &#8220;Archie loves the idea that his grandad lives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,1281,39201,8170,44054,519,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-93515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-meghan-markle-uk","12":"tag-prince-archie","13":"tag-prince-archie-uk","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114490957097053539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93515","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=93515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}