{"id":660875,"date":"2026-06-27T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:32:26","slug":"prince-harry-meghan-markle-to-bring-kids-archie-and-lilibet-to-uk-in-july-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660875\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to bring kids Archie and Lilibet to UK in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince\u00a0Harry<\/a> and his wife, Meghan<\/a>, the Duchess of Sussex, will visit the United Kingdom in July with their two children<\/a>, Prince Archie<\/a> and Princess Lilibet<\/a>, a spokesperson for the family confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n

The Sussexes, who live in California, will spend five days in the U.K., from July 7 to July 11, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The visit will be the first publicly known trip to the U.K. for Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, since June 2022, when the family attended<\/a> Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Harry’s grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

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In this April 14, 2026, file photo, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex visit the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Brady-Pool\/Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

It will also be Meghan’s first known visit to the U.K. since she and Harry attended the queen’s funeral in September 2022.<\/p>\n

The family’s visit in July will focus on several charities with which Harry is involved, including Scotty’s Little Soldiers, Wellchild, and Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style competition for wounded service members that Harry, a military veteran, launched over a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Harry will attend several events in Birmingham, England, as the city prepares to host the 2027 Invictus Games<\/a> next summer.<\/p>\n

Archie and Lilibet will not attend public events with their parents, ABC News understands.<\/p>\n

It is not known whether Harry’s father King Charles III, his brother Prince William, with whom he has a strained relationship, or other royal family members will see the Sussexes during their visit.<\/p>\n

Harry, who moved<\/a> with Meghan to the U.S. in 2020, has spoken previously about wanting to bring his children to the country of his birth, saying that ongoing security concerns have remained a key issue.<\/p>\n

In May 2025, Harry lost an appeal<\/a> challenging the British government’s decision to reduce his publicly funded security after he and Meghan\u00a0stepped back from their royal duties and moved to California.<\/p>\n

Following the ruling, Harry told the BBC<\/a> that he did not believe it was safe to bring Meghan and their children to the United Kingdom under the existing security arrangements at the time.<\/p>\n

Since moving to California, the Sussexes have relied on a privately funded security team.<\/p>\n

Neither the Sussexes nor Buckingham Palace have commented on the family’s security arrangements for their upcoming trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince\u00a0Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will visit the United Kingdom in July with their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221635,59,57,58,661,50,146633,121,1181,52962,120,122,2724,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-camilla-parker-bowles","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kate-middleton","tag-news","tag-prince-charles","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-louis","tag-prince-philip","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-princess-diana","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660875","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=660875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}