Prince Harry might have a scheduled return to the U.K. on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean Meghan Markle will be coming with him. Earlier this summer, the Duke of Sussex’s beloved Invictus Games was announced to be returning to its roots with the 2027 event being hosted by Birmingham, England. As founder, Harry will have no choice but to make his way back home.
According to the latest intel, however, it’s unlikely that Meghan will join him. Royal expert Tom Quinn has told The Mirror (via Express) that the Duchess of Sussex is “ruling out” any possible return to Harry’s homeland unless she can receive personal security. The couple ceased receiving state-funded security detail when they stopped serving as active Royals upon their move to the U.S. in 2020.
“Meghan has said she’s only prepared to return to England if she and Harry have a place of their own and the security they both feel is essential,” Quinn claimed, even going so far as to declare: “Meghan will never return to the UK and stay with her husband’s relatives.”
Harry has long feared that his family is not safe in the U.K. without the proper protection. This is something he reiterated during his recent interview on the ITV documentary Tabloids on Trial, in which he admitted his fear that Meghan could be on the receiving end of a “knife or acid” attack if she ever set foot in Britain. In fact, this wasn’t the only headline-grabbing comment he made in that interview…
Elsewhere in the Tabloids on Trial documentary, the prince made another surprising admission. He claimed that only one member of his family supported his wishes to proceed with a lawsuit over the phone-hacking scandal, and that it was Queen Elizabeth. “We had many conversations before she passed and this is very much something that she supported,” Harry said of his late grandmother.
As per The Daily Mail‘s Richard Eden, though, these comments were not something the Royal household appreciated at all. Eden claimed that the family found Harry’s remarks about the much-missed monarch deeply “inappropriate” and were left decidedly “unimpressed” by his decision to bring her into the conversation.
Eden writes that many of the Royal courtiers are upset with Harry for such a “tasteless” attempt to use the queen to boost his “ongoing crusade.” Some allegedly find it “distasteful” that Harry would suggest the queen supported his behavior when he caused so much upheaval for the Royals in her final years.
Obviously, only Harry really knows what his grandmother said to him in private, so we have to take his word for it. The queen certainly loved her grandson, hence why Harry will receive a hefty inheritance upon turning 40 this September. He probably won’t much care what Buckingham Palace courtiers are saying about him, then, when he’s living it up in California with his £7 million birthday present.
