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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry brought their family to Europe for a summer vacation earlier this month, and now, Meghan has shared some rare family photographs from their time away.<\/p>\n
In the eleven pictures posted to her Instagram account, captioned \u201cSummer Holiday,\u201d the family frolics by the beach, Meghan and Harry laugh at dinner, Archie sits in the cockpit of a plane and carries a stick at sunset, and Harry throws Lili in the pool. Another photo shows Meghan and one of their dogs by a pool, and one snap appears to be taken at Althorp, Princess Diana\u2019s childhood home<\/a>.<\/p>\n While the Sussexes never confirmed where they went on vacation, one photo shows a menu of O Melidense, a beachside restaurant in Melides, Portugal.<\/p>\n O Melidense on Meghan\u2019s Instagram.<\/p>\n The Sussexes have reportedly been bringing their family to Melides, Portugal, located south of Lisbon and known as the \u201cHamptons of Portugal,\u201d for a few years; People reported<\/a> in 2024 they had purchased a vacation home in Portugal, though the Sussexes have never commented on the speculation. In addition, Harry\u2019s cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank own a home in the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club, located near Melides.<\/p>\n After their vacation, Prince Harry and Meghan brought their children to the UK to meet with King Charles<\/a>. The family reunited at Highgrove<\/a>, Buckingham Palace confirmed; it marked the first time that the King had seen Archie and Lili since they came to the UK for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Meghan hasn\u2019t stepped out in public since a trip to Geneva in May<\/a>; while she was set to join Harry for events surrounding Invictus Games One Year to Go in Birmingham, she backed out due to security concerns<\/a>. After getting back from Europe, last week, Prince Harry was in New York City for the Time100 Sports Gala<\/a>, and after the World Cup finals on Sunday evening, he appeared on After Hours with James Corden.<\/p>\n Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read Meghan Markle and Prince Harry brought their family to Europe for a summer vacation earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[178878,379,234794,381,96,59,190731,380,159164,234793,223205,178877,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-collection-royal-family-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-91e4a32a-c690-4bf6-a999-e1681d4cc00f","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-meghan-shares-rare-photos-from-her-family-vacation","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-heritage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708411","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=708411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Colorful](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5287e7bc-1a16-4c6a-a6d9-8f00ce12e927.jpg\" "\\"Colorful")
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