HARRY and Meghan have already secured a secret new UK home for their return to the UK – here’s where it could be.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are coming back at the end of this month for “an extended period of time.”
Their two children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, will enrol at British schools with the couple finding themselves a new home in the UK.
It comes six years after Harry and Meghan turned their backs on the UK and on the King, who is understood to have been told on Sunday that his son and daughter-in-law are returning to Britain.
Despite their return, Harry and Meghan will keep their £11 million mansion in Montecito, California and their Portuguese bolthole which they used last month before travelling back to Britain for a series of engagements.
The Duke of Sussex could not hide his smile during an event in Washington for veterans yesterday as news of his return broke.
Harry & Meg in shock move BACK to Britain 6yrs after quitting Royal life
He beamed and shared laughs with fellow attendees as he was spotted for the first time since The Sun’s world exclusive about his family’s return.
The exact location of their new home has been kept under wraps but there are a number of locations they could choose from.
The Cotswolds is increasingly popular with American celebrities and A- listers who want to live quietly and discreetly, and it is near to the King’s Highgrove Estate.
Beyonce previously was eyeing up a property in the area, although she later abandoned plans.
Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres also had a property there and has previously been close neighbours and friends with Meghan in California.
Meghan appeared on her talk show for her first sit-down daytime interview after moving to California in November 2021, and Harry and Meghan were guests at Ellen and Portia de Rossi’s vow renewal ceremony in February 2023.
And, in 2024 Ellen wrote online that the couple had taken in one of her rescue chickens.
There were, however, rumours of a tension between Meghan and Ellen after Ellen moved to the UK.
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The Cotswolds would also be an attractive area for Meghan because of the nearby Soho Farmhouse.
Meghan is famously friends with exec Markus Anderson, often dubbed the “King of Soho House”.
He helped arrange discreet dates for her and Harry when they began dating, including at 76 Dean Street in London, and Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
In July, the Sussexes were guests at Highgrove in nearby Gloucestershire.
Alternatively, Prince Harry may want to be close to his mother Princess Diana’s childhood home at Althorp House in Northamptonshire.
It is where her grave is and where his uncle Earl Spencer lives.
Also in July, he took his children on an emotional visit to Diana’s grave at the house.
Royals do, nevertheless, often choose to live in peaceful Windsor.
Disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lived in Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park for around 22 years before being banished to the Sandringham Estate.
And the Prince and Princess of Wales have created their long-term “forever home” in nearby Forest Lodge.
But with a lingering icy relationship between the Waleses and Sussexes, it is unlikely the couples would want to live so close together.
They may also think Norfolk would be too close to the Royal Family, given that the King’s Sandringham Estate is there and Will and Kate have Anmer Hall.