{"id":521482,"date":"2026-04-09T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521482\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:35:08","slug":"royal-family-live-prince-harry-given-six-word-ultimatum-by-the-firm-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521482\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry &#8216;given six-word ultimatum by the Firm&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> &#8220;reluctantly left&#8221; as a senior member of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Royal Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/royal-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Family<\/a> after being issued with a six-word ultimatum, an expert has said. The Duke of Sussex, along with the Duchess of Sussex, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>, announced their decision to leave the Firm in January 2020, soon moving to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Canada\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a> before relocating to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"California\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> where they still live.<\/p>\n<p>In his new biography, \u2018Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History&#8217;, historian Hugo Vickers said prior to stepping down, Harry wanted &#8220;a half-in, half-out arrangement, whereby he would be self-financing but could still work for the Royal Family&#8221;. However, Mr Vickers said after a meeting with senior Royal officials in early 2020, he was told it was &#8220;either all in or all out&#8221;. &#8220;He [Harry] returned to Canada \u2014 reluctantly out,&#8221; Mr Vickers wrote, according to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/04\/08\/prince-harry-reluctantly-left-royal-family-given-ultimatum-27896711\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LATEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry &#8220;reluctantly left&#8221; as a senior member of the Royal Family after being issued with a six-word&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,2744,3346,2745,181349,100,983,2741,2740,223,3345,1332,2747,56,181348,54,55],"class_list":["post-521482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-hugo-vickers","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-latest","tag-prince-harry-news","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-live","tag-royal-family-news","tag-royal-news","tag-uk","tag-ultimatum","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}