After Six Years, Harry and Meghan Are Coming Home. What Changed?
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Just last year, Prince Harry said he couldn’t imagine ever bringing his family back to Britain.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had fled to America amid a seemingly irreparable royal rift, a vicious media environment and a British public that was angry about their criticism of the monarchy. Harry told the BBC that it was “really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
Now, he will. In a move that appears to have caught even King Charles III by surprise, Harry and Meghan are planning to settle back in Britain in the coming weeks. Their children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, will enroll in school here. Royal watchers said the family would live in private accommodations outside London.
The question that quite a few people in Britain are asking is: What changed? The answer, royal observers say, may hinge in part on Harry’s longing to give his children the kind of upbringing that he remembers fondly — minus the public attention and press scrutiny that he has repeatedly denounced.
In 2023, Harry described Britain as “central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the U.S.” in a statement read out by his lawyer during a court hearing over security for his family.
“They want their children to grow up as British citizens as much as Americans,” said Ed Owens, the author of “After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?” and a fellow at the Royal Historical Society. “They want their children to imbibe the tradition, culture, history, heritage of their father’s country.”
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