Prince Harry Admits He’s 'Closer' to Bringing His Kids to the UK After Reunion with Charles
Prince Harry has spent the past five years carving out a new life in California, with his wife and two children, far removed from the royal spotlight. Yet despite the freedom and sunshine, Britain hasn’t been far from his thoughts. His homeland remains a place of complicated loyalties — a country he says he loves, even if he feels let down by parts of it. For much of that time, the idea of returning with Meghan and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, seemed almost impossible. Security disputes, legal setbacks, and lingering tensions with the royal family made the prospect feel out of reach. But now, after his reunion with King Charles, Harry has hinted that bringing his children to the UK may not be a closed door after all.
Asked recently if he would like to bring his children to the UK one day, Harry didn’t hesitate. “Yes, I would. This week has definitely brought that closer,” he told The Guardian, contrary to his earlier position on the matter. Back in May, speaking to the BBC after losing his legal battle for state-funded security, Harry had stressed that he doesn’t “see a world in which [he] would be bringing [his] wife and children back to the UK.”
The security downgrade, first imposed when Harry and Markle stepped back from royal duties in 2020, has long been a sticking point. “They’re going to miss, well, everything,” he said of Archie and Lilibet missing out on life in the UK. “I love my country. I have always done. Despite what some people in that country have done.” His frustration was evident.
He also had his own disappointments about not being able to bring his kids to the UK. “I miss the UK, I miss parts of the UK, of course I do,” he admitted in the same interview. “I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.” If Harry once spoke as if a return was impossible, he now speaks as if it is only a matter of how, not if.
Earlier, it was also speculated that his shift might boil down to something as practical as education, that the Sussex children might one day swap their American classrooms for the kind of traditional British education Harry himself grew up with. Grant Harrold, who once served as Charles’s butler, believes Harry could well favor the idea. He had said, “It’s very likely and it’s completely possible because if they have their younger education in America, I’m sure their father will be quite keen to have a bit of a British education... But then it depends on how the relationship is with the rest of the family when the time comes.”