Harry and Meghan are set to come back to the UK, but there are still numerous burning questions people have about their return. So here is a list of everything we do and don’t know
Megxit is over (finally) and Harry and Meghan are set to relocate to back to Britain in only a matter of weeks. However there are still numerous questions festering about the return of the former working Royals to the UK.
Despite the myriad of questions, there are a couple things we know, such as the main reason for their return and who knew about it and when.
But there remains many things we don’t know, so here’s a list of everything we do and everything left unanswered about the couple’s comeback to Britain . . . and what it means for the rest of the Royal Family.
Everything we (kind of) know:
Harry and Meghan will move back to the UK by the end of the month with their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Archie, seven, and Lili, five, have already enrolled in British schools and are expected to start in early September.
The King welcomes the opportunity to see more of the family in a private and personal capacity, it is understood, but the status of the Sussexes will remain the same and the couple will not be offered a “half-in, half-out” option when it comes to their roles.
The Sussexes will keep their homes in Montecito, California; and Portugal, while the duchess will continue to run her lifestyle brand, As Ever, from their new base.
Everything we (really, really) don’t know:
Why Harry and Meghan are moving back to the UK?
The Sussexes have not commented on their reasons for moving back to Britain. Their relocation comes just weeks after the duke and duchess took their children to see the King for the first time in four years at his Highgrove home, but the couple are not thought to have raised the prospect of a return to the UK at that meeting.
Where in the UK will Harry and Meghan live?
Harry and Meghan have not confirmed where in Britain they will be moving to, apart from that it will be outside of London. They have not had a permanent UK home since 2023, when they were asked to vacate their Windsor residence Frogmore Cottage, a gift from the late Queen, just weeks after the duke’s damning memoir Spare was released. Whether they have yet bought a home and who will or has paid for it is also unknown.
Who will pay for their security?
It is not known who will pay for Harry and Meghan’s security, which has been the subject of a protracted legal battle with the Home Office over the arrangements for him and his family while they are in the UK – after the duke’s level of protection changed when he stepped down as a working royal in 2020.
The Prime Minister would not be drawn on whether the Government would fund their arrangements, and said: “Well, this is a private matter. It’s a matter for Harry and for Meghan, and we wish them well in the moves that they’re making.”
At the end of June, Harry was still waiting for a review by the Risk Management Board, part of the process by which the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) rules on his security requirements – and he and his security detail were working to try to ensure his July visit could take place safely.
Will Harry and William reconcile?
The Sussexes’ moving back to Britain could signal a warming of relations between Harry and his father Charles, who met in July when he visited the King and Queen with Meghan, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.
There has been no such reunion so far with William, who was playing in a charity polo match at Windsor when the reunion happened.
Where will Archie and Lili go to school?
The schools Archie and Lili have been enrolled at have not been announced. Archie will be entering Year 3 and Lili will be going into Year 1 in September. At their age, Harry was at Wetherby School, a boys’ school in London, before he went to Ludgrove School in Berkshire and finally to Eton College.
Archie and Lili’s cousin Prince George, 13, is due to start in at Eton in September, while Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, eight, are at Lambrook School in Berkshire.