{"id":877950,"date":"2026-09-02T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877950\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:20:13","slug":"donald-trump-says-hes-happy-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-have-left-us-for-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877950\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he\u2019s \u2018happy\u2019 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have left US for Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has said he is \u201chappy\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/a> have now left the United States, singling out Meghan for being \u201cterribly disrespectful\u201d to the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

The US president was asked about Prince Harry<\/a> and his wife one week after they left California for what has been described as an \u201cextended stay\u201d in Britain, with their two children Prince Archie<\/a> and Princess Lilibet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump says he\u2019s \u201chappy\u201d Prince Harry and Meghan have left his country to live in Britain again.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Sussexes arrived in the UK last Wednesday<\/a> on board a private plane that landed at Birmingham Airport.<\/p>\n

Trump was asked about the royal couple during a meeting with journalists inside the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy about it,\u201d Trump told reporters about the couple\u2019s move.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not a fan. And I thought they treated the royal family with great disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI didn\u2019t like it. I didn\u2019t like the way she acted. I thought she [Meghan] was terribly disrespectful to the queen, to King Charles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe I\u2019m different. I wouldn\u2019t have taken them back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now living in Britain<\/a> and their children will start school there<\/a>, rumoured to be somewhere in the Cotswolds, in days. But Prince Harry and Meghan will remain private citizens and not return to working duties with the royal family.<\/p>\n

The duke and duchess moved to the US in 2020 after leaving the UK, stepping back from their roles and settling in Montecito.<\/p>\n

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The US President was asked about Prince Harry and Meghan\u2019s departure from California during a meeting with journalists in the Oval Office on Wednesday.\u00a0AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin<\/p>\n

There is no love lost between Trump and the duchess, with Meghan previously describing him as \u201cmisogynistic\u201d and \u201cdivisive\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0video ahead of the 2020 election<\/a>, she and Prince Harry urged voters to \u201creject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity\u201d, appearing to endorse Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Meghan described it as the \u201cmost important election of our lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump has also said he is \u201cno fan\u201d of Meghan\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In February last year the president was dragged into the long-running saga over Prince Harry\u2019s US visa issues.<\/a><\/p>\n

The duke had faced a lengthy legal battle over whether he lied about drug-taking on his application after he later\u00a0admitted to substance use in his memoir<\/a>,\u00a0Spare, published in January 2023.<\/p>\n

US-based Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation had been pushing for the duke\u2019s visa application to be made public, claiming he may have lied about his illegal drug use on immigration records or otherwise been given preferential treatment by former President Joe Biden in order to relocate to the US.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he would have Prince Harry deported, Trump said he had no interest in revoking Harry\u2019s visa and deporting him.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>\u00a0Trump said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to do that. I\u2019ll leave him alone. He\u2019s got enough problems with his wife. She\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US president has long been smitten with Britain\u2019s royal family<\/a> and has publicly expressed his affection for King Charles, Prince William and the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

He is the only US president to have had two state visits to the UK.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump invited King Charles and Queen Camilla to the US for a state visit in April after he became the first US president to have two state visits to the UK.\u00a0AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/p>\n

Speaking at Windsor Castle last year at the state dinner<\/a> hosted by King Charles and Queen Camilla, Trump said: \u201cIt\u2019s a singular privilege to be the first American president welcomed here\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is truly one of the highest honours of my life, such respect for you and such respect for your country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The president called King Charles a “very, very special man” while Prince William, he said, was “going to have unbelievable success in the future”.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously called King Charles his “good friend”.<\/p>\n

\"WINDSOR,<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s affection for the British royal family is well-known and there is no love lost between him and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Trump made his\u00a0first state visit to the UK<\/a>\u00a0when Elizabeth II was on the throne, in 2019.<\/p>\n

In April, King Charles and Queen Camilla travelled to the US for the first state visit<\/a> there of Charles\u2019 reign, with many observers calling the monarch the \u201cTrump Whisperer\u201d owning to his unique role as a mediator of sorts between the two countries, who had been at odds for months over several key global issues.<\/p>\n

Trump’s admiration for the royal family was inherited by his Scottish mother, Mary Anne MacLeod.<\/p>\n

In Trump’s book\u00a0The Art of the Deal\u00a0he described his mother being “enthralled by the pomp and circumstance, the whole idea of royalty and glamour”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has said he is \u201chappy\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have now left the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-877950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}