{"id":707831,"date":"2026-07-23T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:44:11","slug":"meghan-markle-breaks-silence-on-prince-harrys-secret-portugal-holiday-with-archie-and-lilibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707831\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle breaks silence on Prince Harry’s secret Portugal holiday with Archie and Lilibet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been confirmed as having holidayed in Melides, Portugal, after months of speculation about the couple’s ties to the coastal town south of Lisbon.<\/p>\n

The disclosure came not through any official statement but via 11 photographs the Duchess of Sussex posted to her Instagram account this evening, captioned “Summer holiday” with a sun emoji.<\/p>\n

One image clearly shows a menu from O Melidense, a beachfront restaurant in the town sometimes referred to as the “Hamptons of Portugal.”<\/p>\n

The Sussexes have never publicly acknowledged their reported connection to the area.<\/p>\n

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been confirmed as having holidayed in Melides, Portugal, after months of speculation about the couple’s ties to the coastal town south of Lisbon<\/p>\n

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One image clearly shows a menu from O Melidense, a beachfront restaurant in the town sometimes referred to as the ‘Hamptons of Portugal’<\/p>\n

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People reported in 2024 that the couple had purchased a holiday home there, and the Mail has since claimed the property is undergoing interior renovations. <\/p>\n

Neither report has been confirmed or denied by the couple.<\/p>\n

Harry’s cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank own a property at the nearby CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club in Comporta, which has long fuelled speculation about the Sussexes’ presence in the region.<\/p>\n

The photographs show the couple with their children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, on the beach and by a pool.<\/p>\n

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Princess Lilibet photographed behind her father and brother<\/p>\n

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One image shows Harry, wearing a cap, tossing Lilibet into the air over a swimming pool.<\/p>\n

Archie is pictured in the cockpit of a plane in one shot and holding a stick at sunset in another. A separate photo shows the couple laughing over red wine at dinner.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese trip preceded the family’s visit to Highgrove, where they were reunited with King Charles, a meeting confirmed by Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n

It marked the first time the monarch had seen his grandchildren since their visit for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle pictured with her pet Beagle<\/p>\n

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Archie is pictured in the cockpit of a plane in one shot and holding a stick at sunset in another<\/p>\n

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Meghan has kept a low public profile since a trip to Geneva in May.<\/p>\n

She had been due to join Harry at Invictus Games One Year to Go events in Birmingham but pulled out citing security concerns.<\/p>\n

Harry was in New York last week for the Time100 Sports Gala and appeared on After Hours with James Corden after the World Cup finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been confirmed as having holidayed in Melides, Portugal, after months of speculation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,100,68053,983,46804,1852,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-archie","tag-prince-harry","tag-princess-lilibet","tag-royal","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707831","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=707831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}