Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Consider Returning to the UK Amid Family Ties
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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.
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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01 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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02 NPR News 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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03 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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04 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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05 The Daily Wire Well…here we are a little over a year later. The couple has no promises of government security, no invitations (that we know of) to return as working royals, and no public resolution of the racial-bias allegations…so why are they going back, given their longstanding concerns?
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