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Almost as quickly as the big move was announced, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s arrival in Britain happened.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex jetted into the West Midlands city of Birmingham aboard a private jet on August 26, with their children thought to be in tow.
The couple’s bombshell relocation to the UK – six years after they decided to step back as senior royals and set up a new life in California – was in motion, and now more details have been revealed about what their new future will look like.
Writing in the Daily Mail, royal expert Alison Boshoff said Prince Archie, seven, is enrolled as a day boarder at a school close to the picturesque Cotswolds.
Princess Lilibet, five, is said to be joining the pre-prep of the same school, and the family are said to be eyeing up a country house in the area too – with a budget of around $AU15 million.
“The way [Harry] sees it is that he will be here for the next 12 to 15 years, minimum. He sees himself as a full-time father and he will be here for them spending every Saturday watching Archie play rugby. That is the agenda,” a source told Boshoff, adding that the Duke and his wife are “most committed parents”.
“There is no hankering after a royal status or royal engagements, it is not about that,” the insider continued.
“He specifically doesn’t want to do that. This is about Harry wanting what is best for them and he wants them to be raised British, in Britain, and go to a public school. That is what the move is about.”
Meghan, unsurprisingly, is said not to be as enthralled about a return to the country where she famously struggled – with entertainment reporter Rob Shuter claiming she is “deeply uncomfortable” with the idea.
“Meghan is not doing this because she wants to,” a source told Shuter. “She is doing it because she believes she has to. She does not want to lose Harry, and she knows something has to change.”
It’s been reported that Meghan will likely spend more time in the US than her husband and children, as she continues working on her lifestyle brand As Ever.
While Harry currently remains estranged from his brother and heir to the British throne, Prince William – one royal expert is predicting a rapprochement of sorts.
Tom Sykes – the man behind The Royalist podcast – said he believes Harry will be “back in the fold” in time and that “pragmatist” William will “stage manage a handshake or reconciliation” with his brother, so that he is able to “manage some of the optics around it”.
A reconciliation with Meghan, however, appears less likely – with royal expert Paula Froelich telling The Royalist that the situation would be easier for William to stage manage if “Meghan was not there”.
“Are we actually looking at the beginning of the long separation? The long goodbye?” she mused about Harry and Meghan.
“Because while they both claim to be madly, madly in love… the issue is she does hate England. She hates the weather, doesn’t like the people… So I don’t think this is going to go that well.”
Writing in the Daily Mail, Boshoff also raised the subject of a “geographical separation” between the couple, who married in 2018, explaining it was “not a narrative which Team Sussex want to promote”.
“Indeed, the idea of it has set a hare racing about the state of their marriage,” Boshoff acknowledged in her opinion piece.
Meanwhile, Sykes recalled a conversation he had with a “friend of Harry’s” in March 2026.
That friend, he said, told him that Harry “was moving back” to the UK and Meghan “wasn’t”.
“I actually think that that person was right. I think that what is happening is that Harry and the kids are moving back full time, and that Meghan is going to come and go because there’s nothing for her to do,” he shared.
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