WATCH: King Charles requested Harry and Meghan to maneuver out of Frogmore Cottage: Reports
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, might now not have a residence within the United Kingdom to name dwelling.
Harry and Meghan, who now reside full-time in California, have been requested by Harry’s father, King Charles III, to exit Frogmore Cottage, their dwelling since 2019, in line with a number of reviews.
Neither Buckingham Palace nor representatives for Harry and Meghan have commented on the reviews.
Charles reportedly made the choice to maneuver his son and daughter-in-law out of their dwelling in January, shortly after Harry’s bombshell memoir “Spare” was launched, in line with ABC News contributor Omid Scobie.
According to Scobie and The Sun newspaper, Frogmore Cottage has as a substitute been supplied to Charles’ youthful brother, Prince Andrew, who’s now not a working royal after dealing with scrutiny over his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Harry and Meghan are additionally now not senior working royals after stepping down from their roles in 2020, changing into financially unbiased and transferring to California.
The reported modifications with Frogmore Cottage come lower than six months after the dying of Queen Elizabeth II in September, at which level Charles, her eldest son, turned king.
In 2019, the queen allowed Harry and Meghan to maneuver from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage, which sits on the grounds of Windsor Castle, about 25 miles exterior of London.
The couple renovated the house — an 18th century home that had been transformed into residences for royal employees — and moved in shortly earlier than the May 2019 delivery of their first youngster, a son named Archie.
When Harry and Meghan stepped down from their senior royal roles one yr later, they agreed to pay again to U.Okay. taxpayers the roughly $3 million price ticket for the Frogmore Cottage renovations.
After that, the couple stored the house as their official U.Okay. residence and retained monetary accountability for the property.
As they lived full-time in California, the Sussexes shared the house at one level with Andrew’s daughter Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank.
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When Harry and Meghan returned to the U.Okay. final yr for the queen’s jubilee after which a number of months later for her funeral, they stayed at Frogmore Cottage. Glimpses of the house had been additionally seen just lately within the couple’s Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan.”
In the docuseries, Harry and Meghan spoke about how they thought they’d elevate their youngsters at Frogmore Cottage and reside their lives there.
“It never needed to be this way,” Harry mentioned within the sequence. “We talked about this over and over again, sitting up late in the kitchen after these late-night engagements, saying, ‘We would have carried on doing this for the rest of our lives.'”
The Sussexes have made solely uncommon visits to the U.Okay. since leaving their royal roles and amid a authorized battle over safety safety whereas they’re within the U.Okay.
In his current memoir, Harry described tensions inside his household, significantly between himself and his father and brother Prince William.
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Harry advised “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan in an interview previous to the memoir’s launch that he didn’t imagine the small print he shared in “Spare” may make issues any worse along with his household.
“I have thought about it long and hard,” Harry mentioned. “And as far as I see it, the divide couldn’t be greater before this book.”
Neither Kensington Palace — the workplace of Prince William and Kate, the Princess of Wales — nor Buckingham Palace, the workplace of Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, have commented on the claims Harry made in “Spare.”
