Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are planning to move back to the U.K. despite years of public criticism of royal life and the British press.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to relocate their family to a private residence outside London later this month, according to multiple reports. Their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, are set to attend a British school beginning in September, according to the BBC.

King Charles III has been informed of the move and reportedly welcomes the chance to spend more time with his grandchildren. Prince William and Princess Kate have also been informed.

The move is not expected to bring Harry and Meghan back as working royals. But it does put a fresh spotlight on the couple’s long list of explosive claims about life inside the monarchy.

Here are some of Harry and Meghan’s most explosive claims and remarks about royal life, the British press and the U.K.

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1. Prince Harry claims he and royal family were ‘trapped’

Nearly a year after walking away from their working royal roles, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sat down for a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.

Opening up about the immense pressure that drove them across the Atlantic, Harry didn’t hold back when describing the reality of life behind palace walls.

The Duke of Sussex said he would not have walked away without Meghan, explaining, “I wouldn’t have been able to, because I myself was trapped. I didn’t see a way out.”

“I was trapped, but I didn’t know I was trapped,” Harry told Winfrey at the time, before adding, “My father and my brother, they are trapped.”

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The explosive interview revealed the extent of Harry’s strained relationships with his family. He said he felt “really let down” by his father and described himself and Prince William as being on “different paths.”

The Duke of Sussex detailed his rift from the royal family in his 2023 memoir. (Getty Images)

2. Meghan Markle drops race bombshell, reveals palace battles over Archie’s title

The Sussex’s’ tell-all quickly escalated tensions with the royal family when Meghan made a staggering allegation about conversations behind palace doors.

During their March 2021 sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan made allegations about concerns within the royal family over the skin color of her firstborn son, Archie.

Meghan said it was the palace — not her and Prince Harry — that decided Archie would not receive a royal title or royal security. She also claimed they were never asked to pose for the traditional hospital steps photo after Archie’s birth.

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Meghan also addressed security concerns surrounding her son’s birth:

“In those months when I was pregnant … we have in tandem the conversation of ‘you won’t be given security,’ ‘not going to be given a title’, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

When Winfrey pressed on who made the remarks, Meghan refused to name names, saying that revealing the identity of the royal involved would be “very damaging” to the family.

Prince Harry and Megan Markle moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their roles as senior royals. They were married in 2018 and have two children together: Archie and Lilibet. (Samir Hussein)

3. Meghan draws sharp line between ‘rude and racist’

Meghan also rejected comparisons between the press scrutiny she received and the negative coverage Princess Kate faced before marrying Prince William.

Meghan and Prince Harry said racism in the U.K. media and a lack of support from the palace contributed to their decision to leave. In a follow-up clip on “CBS This Morning,” Meghan explained her view:

“Kate [Middleton] was called Waity Katie, waiting to marry [Prince] William, while I imagine that was really hard and I do… this is not the same and if a member of his family will comfortably say we’ve all had to deal with things that are rude. Rude and racist are not the same,” she explained.

Meghan, whose father is White and mother is Black, said Princess Kate had a press team that could publicly defend her, while she and Harry did not receive the same support.

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Meghan Markle’s joke to Kate Middleton about Trooping the Colour caused an awkward silence, according to Prince Harry. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

4. Meghan’s dark confession: Duchess shares harrowing truth about suicidal thoughts

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The royal scandal reached a harrowing peak when Meghan Markle said she experienced suicidal thoughts while serving as a working royal.

When Oprah Winfrey asked if relentless media scrutiny drove her to the edge, the Duchess said:

“I was really ashamed to say it at the time and a shame to have to admit it to Harry, especially because I know how much loss he suffered. But I knew that if I didn’t say it that I would do it. And I just didn’t, I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”

Prince Harry said he entered a “very dark place” watching his wife suffer. He has repeatedly drawn parallels between the media attention surrounding Meghan and the treatment of his late mother, Princess Diana, and said his requests for help from his family were met with “total silence” and “total neglect.”

When asked whether she was “silent or silenced,” Meghan didn’t hesitate: “The latter.” However, she praised Queen Elizabeth II as “warm, inviting and really welcoming.”

From palace protocols to private family tensions, Meghan Markle has offered a rare glimpse into life behind the crown. (Samir Hussein)

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5. Prince Harry reveals painful truth about King Charles: ‘I feel really let down’

In a candid look at his relationship with his father, Harry said:

“I feel really let down because he’s been through something similar. He knows what pain feels like. And Archie’s his grandson. I will always love him, but there is a lot of hurt that has happened. I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try to heal that relationship. But they only know what they know.”

The Duke revealed that the royal family cut him off financially in early 2020 after he and Meghan announced their step back, leaving him to rely on his inheritance from Princess Diana to pay for security.

Meanwhile, the fallout was immediate. Just two days after the interview shook the monarchy, then-Prince Charles stepped out to visit a London vaccine clinic. When reporters shouted questions about the bombshell conversation, the future king at the time simply chuckled, remained silent and carried on walking.

Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, have faced years of public scrutiny over their relationship amid the Duke of Sussex’s split from royal duties. (Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images)

6. Prince Harry exposes palace leaks and fears Princess Diana’s fate for Meghan: ‘It’s a dirty game’

In December 2022, Prince Harry dropped a blunt reality check on the monarchy, calling out internal media manipulation and vicious palace leaks in his Netflix documentary, “Harry & Meghan”:

“There’s a hierarchy of the family. You know, there’s leaking, but there [are] also planting of stories. It’s a dirty game.”

Meghan delivered a chilling realization to their explosive project: “I realized, ‘They’re never gonna protect you.’”

Meghan Markle has drawn comparisons to Princess Diana as both women faced intense public attention after marrying into the British royal family. (Getty Images)

Drawing an eerie parallel to the tragic fate of his late mother, Princess Diana, Harry spoke out about the brutal psychological toll placed on women marrying into the royal family:

“The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy… I was terrified. I didn’t want history to repeat itself.”

7. Prince Harry breaks down in court, blasting tabloids over Meghan: ‘Absolute misery’

Fighting back tears in a London courtroom in January 2026, Prince Harry delivered a blistering indictment of the British press, testifying that aggressive tabloid intrusion reduced his wife’s life to “an absolute misery”:

“They continue to come after me. They have made my wife’s life an absolute misery.”

Taking the stand for a grueling two-and-a-half-hour testimony in his high-profile privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, a visibly shaken Duke of Sussex choked up while condemning the relentless commercialization of his private life. Harry blasted the notion that he has no right to privacy as “disgusting,” framing the bitter legal battle as yet another grueling chapter for his family.

Meghan Markle was by Prince Harry’s side when Queen Elizabeth died in September. (Chris Jackson)

8. Sandringham showdown: Prince Harry claims William screamed at him during ‘terrifying’ crisis meeting

Recalling the bitter fallout of the emergency summit called by Queen Elizabeth II at the time, Prince Harry recounted the harrowing showdown where compromise was quickly thrown out the window:

“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in.”

The Duke of Sussex detailed how the 90-minute sit-down with Queen Elizabeth II, then-Prince Charles, and Prince William failed to find common ground after his proposed “half in, half out” model was flatly rejected. The explosive Netflix documentary also spotlighted claims of deliberate negative briefings against the couple to protect other royal interests.

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Prince William and Prince Harry grew up side by side in the public eye, but their once-close bond has faced years of reported strain and family tensions. (Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

9. Prince Harry alleges William physically attacked him in explosive memoir, ‘Spare’

In his memoir “Spare,” Prince Harry detailed a 2019 physical altercation with Prince William at Nottingham Cottage after the Prince of Wales labeled Meghan Markle “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive.”

According to Harry, a shouting match quickly escalated between the two:

“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me… He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.”

Harry wrote that William later returned to apologize — while bizarrely urging, “You don’t need to tell Meg about this” — prompting Harry to reply, “You mean that you attacked me?” to which William reportedly fired back, “I didn’t attack you, Harold.”

Prince Harry’s book cover for Spare (Random House)

10. Meghan paints royal traditions as stiff and cold behind closed doors

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle detailed the rigid, unyielding protocol of the British monarchy, revealing how jarringly formal traditions felt even behind closed doors in their 2022 Netflix documentary.

Royal commentator and True Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen highlighted how the series deliberately contrasts the family’s public image with a much colder private reality, pointing specifically to Meghan’s description of her initial, highly formal meeting with Princess Kate and the carefully curated visuals meant to emphasize the family’s sternness:

“[There’s] the piece about how formal Catherine was on that first meeting and the photographs chosen to show the sternness and the lines about… how difficult it is for women marrying into the royal family.”

Critics note that the narrative leans heavily into painting the institution as an unwelcoming, rigid environment, though Bullen also pointed out that the series sidesteps the immense privilege and luxury that came with their senior royal status.

11. Unsafe in the UK: Prince Harry and Meghan say losing security put their family at risk

Battling to bring his children to Britain, Prince Harry argued that losing taxpayer-funded police protection left his family facing unacceptable dangers.

In September 2021, Prince Harry originally applied for a judicial review of a Home Office decision that kept him from personally paying for police protection while he and his family were in the United Kingdom.

Legal teams told the High Court that Harry refused to bring Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to the U.K. because he does not feel safe under current security arrangements. Harry offered to personally finance his own police detail out of pocket.

However, the U.K. Home Office and government lawyers successfully blocked the bid, arguing wealthy individuals cannot “buy” police security.

In May 2023, the legal defeat locked Harry out of official state-backed protection, leaving the Sussexes to rely entirely on private security during a battle that coincided with fresh security threats in the U.S.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle do not currently use HRH titles.  (Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

12. Prince Harry shuts door on UK visits after devastating security defeat: ‘Life is precious’

As the royal blasted his latest legal defeat as a “stitch-up,” Prince Harry admitted in May 2025 that he can no longer envision bringing Meghan Markle, Archie and Lilibet back to Britain.

Following a crushing blow to his long-running security appeal, Harry told BBC at the time:

“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point.”

While claiming King Charles refused to speak to him over the ongoing feud, Harry confessed he was ready to drop the legal warfare, noting: “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point continuing to fight anymore, life is precious.”

13. From ‘We need to get out’ to moving back: Prince Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK

Setting the record straight on who orchestrated “Megxit,” Prince Harry confessed he was the one who pulled the plug on royal life.

Facing what he called “total silence and total neglect” when seeking institutional help, he recalled the final straw: “I said that we need to get out of here.”

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Years after fleeing to America as they built a home in Montecito, California amid fierce security battles, the Sussexes’ saga has come full circle with reports that the couple is moving back to the U.K.