{"id":743495,"date":"2026-08-20T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:42:13","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-moving-back-to-britain-this-month-prince-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743495\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan \u2018moving back to Britain this month\u2019 | Prince Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to return to live in Britain, six years after leaving for the US, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The couple and their two children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, are expected to relocate later this month to a non-royal residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The property is believed to be outside London, and the children are enrolled to start school in September, the Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">King Charles was informed on Sunday that his son and daughter-in-law would return to Britain, according to the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It comes after the Sussexes, who have lived in California since 2020, had a reunion with the king last month at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The king is said to welcome the opportunity to see more of his family in a personal capacity but there will be no change in their status as private individuals after relinquishing their official working roles within the royal family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Prince and Princess of Wales are said to have also been informed of the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The couple are expected to retain their homes in Montecito, California, and Portugal, where they went on holiday earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The duke and duchess\u2019s security arrangements have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The long-running issue over their security meant that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/prince-harry\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> did not bring Meghan, 45, or their children to events in London last month, as had been originally planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Prince Harry, 41, has previously stressed he would not feel safe bringing his family back to the UK without police protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In May 2025, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/02\/prince-harry-loses-legal-challenge-over-police-protection-in-uk\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing a legal challenge over his security in the UK<\/a>, the Duke of Sussex said: \u201cI can\u2019t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In an interview with the BBC after the ruling, Prince Harry said he \u201cwould love a reconciliation\u201d with the royal family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He said: \u201cThere have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family,\u201d but he had now \u201cforgiven\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI would love reconciliation with my family. There\u2019s no point continuing to fight any more, life is precious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Prince Harry added the dispute over his security had \u201calways been the sticking point\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Asked whether he had asked the king to intervene in the dispute over security, he said: \u201cI never asked him to intervene \u2013 I asked him to step out of the way and let the experts do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last month, the Duke of Sussex and six other co-claimants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/prince-harry-and-co-claimants-face-huge-legal-bill-due-to-insurance-shortfall\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost their privacy case against the publishers of the Daily Mail in London<\/a>. The claimants, who included Doreen Lawrence and Elton John, sued Associated Newspapers Ltd over allegations of unlawful information gathering. Their claims were dismissed in their entirety by Mr Justice Nicklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to return to live in Britain, six years after leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743495","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=743495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}