Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, May Signal End of Royal Tensions with UK Move
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Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are planning to move back to the United Kingdom more than six years after stepping away from their roles as senior working members of Britain's royal family, ABC News confirmed this week.
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NPR NewsHarry and Meghan gave up their royal duties and moved to California more than six years ago to earn their living through lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify. Although relations with the rest of the royal family have soured since then, Harry has recently expressed an interest in reconciliation so he could spend more time with his father, King Charles III, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer.
BBC NewsPrince Harry and Meghan left the UK and stepped back from royal duties in 2020, and family relations have been strained since.
Associated PressThe judgment comes two days after it was made public that Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, are moving back to the U.K. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are no longer working royals, decamped to California more than six years ago but will relocate back later this month to live in a nonroyal residence outside London.
The Daily WireNow, six years later, Harry and Meghan appear to be testing whether they can have the best of both worlds: the freedom of private citizens, the commercial opportunities of their Sussex brand, and the proximity and prestige that come with being members of the Royal Family. We don’t exactly know the motivation. But after years of insisting that Britain was unsafe and intolerable, their decision to return inevitably raises questions about what has really changed.
New York TimesReturn of Harry and Meghan to U.K. Renews Questions About Their Security Fears The couple lost their publicly funded security after deciding to leave Britain in 2020, deepening their split with the royal family.
The Guardian USIn recent years, the couple have given a wide berth to Buckingham Palace. Meghan, who is biracial, publicly chastised her royal relatives for racist mistreatment and inadequate handling of media intrusion. More recently, the couple was embroiled in a protracted legal dispute over funding for their security protection.
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While Harry has recently met with his father, there are no signs of a warming of relations with his brother, Prince William, the heir to the throne.
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The Daily WireBut…there are also whispers swirling around that the timing of this homecoming is very deliberate. One unnamed source tells RadarOnline.com in an exclusive that Harry is “hoping to re-establish his royal position before his estranged brother, Prince William, takes the crown along with his wife, Princess Kate [Middleton]. “Harry may never get a better window of opportunity.” It’s a claim I’ve heard bandied about more than once. It’s no secret that William and Harry are not on speaking terms. The brothers have been unable to reconcile after Harry’s negative references to William’s wife, Kate Middleton, in his bestselling memoir, Spare.
BBC NewsThere has been no official comment from his brother, the Prince of Wales. The BBC's Helena Wilkinson looks back over the tumultuous relationship between the brothers and how Prince Harry's return may be received.
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Those tensions were exacerbated by Harry's long-running legal battle with Britain's tabloid newspapers, which he alleges illegally hacked his phones and invaded his privacy when he was younger. The prince has lost a series of lawsuits against the media, including one against the publisher of the Daily Mail, which concluded last month.
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Associated PressHarry’s defeat against Associated Newspapers brought an end to a trio of lawsuits accusing tabloid publishers of using unlawful tactics, such as phone hacking or hiring private detectives to dig up dirt on his life.
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Following their defeat in a High Court case in London last month alleging malpractice, such as the illegal hacking of phones, the high-profile figures will learn the scale of their exposure to the roughly 34 million pounds ($46 million) in legal costs accumulated by Associated Newspapers Ltd. The losing claimants are believed to be insured for around half that total.
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NPR NewsThe latest trial has left Harry facing a potential bill for millions of pounds after the court ruled he and other plaintiffs in the case were liable for the publisher's legal fees. Associated Newspapers has filed documents showing that its legal costs amounted to 34.5 million pounds ($47 million).
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01 The Guardian US The bucolic coastal California town of Montecito was thrust into the limelight six years ago as the backdrop for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s second act following an acrimonious split from Buckingham Palace.
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02 BBC News Published When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit working for the Royal Family in 2020 and moved to California, they brought something even Hollywood can't manufacture: royalty.
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03 NPR News The Daily Telegraph first reported the story. When asked to discuss the reports by the AP at a roundtable event with U.S. veterans in Washington Wednesday night, Harry replied, "Nothing to say."
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04 Associated Press In addition to an initial payment, which could be up to 10 million pounds, they will find out how they will pay the outstanding amount.
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05 Washington Times BOSTON — Harvard Medical School says it agreed to pay $53 million to settle class action lawsuits by relatives of body donors whose remains were sold on the black market by its former morgue manager.
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06 ABC News Speaking on "Good Morning America" Thursday, Jobson called the news "a bit of a shock" and said questions remain over how much Harry's father, King Charles III, knew about his son's plans before he was made aware of the decision.
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07 The Daily Wire A federal jury on Thursday ordered The New York Times to pay a former University of Alabama men’s basketball player $9.25 million in damages for falsely reporting that he was at the scene of a murder in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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