Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Are Moving Back to the U.K. With Their Kids 6 Years After Royal Exit
By Alexus Mosley
Photo Credit: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire
Well, this wasn’t on our 2026 royal bingo card.
Six years after trading the United Kingdom for California, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly heading back across the pond with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to relocate later this month and live in a private, non-royal residence. Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, are also reportedly set to begin school in the U.K. this September.
Despite the move, this doesn’t appear to signal a return to their former roles within the royal family.
Harry and Meghan stepped back as senior working royals in 2020 before eventually settling in Montecito, California. According to current reports, there are no plans for that arrangement to change. The couple is expected to continue pursuing their own professional and charitable work while living in Britain for an extended period.
Harry’s return will put him considerably closer to several of the U.K.-based charities he has continued supporting, including WellChild and Scotty’s Little Soldiers, while Meghan is expected to continue working on her lifestyle brand, As Ever.
And they’re apparently not saying goodbye to California altogether.
The couple reportedly plans to keep their Montecito home, as well as their property in Portugal, making the move feel more like establishing a new British home base than a complete reversal of their post-royal life.
Naturally, the move is already raising questions about what it could mean for Harry’s relationship with the royal family.
King Charles was reportedly informed of the Sussexes’ plans earlier this week, following a July visit during which the King spent time with Archie and Lilibet.
Still, after six years of building their lives primarily in California, seeing the Sussex family living in Britain again is a pretty major plot twist.
The California chapter is officially closed, but the U.K. is officially back in the picture.