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title: "The Great Relocation: What Prince Harry's Return to Britain Signals for Everyone Else "
description: Prince Harry and Meghan are moving back to the UK after six years in California, at the exact moment record numbers of Americans are looking for the exit the...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-25T13:30:00.000Z
updated: 2026-08-25T13:56:29.140Z
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King Charles learned on a Sunday, the same way most of the public did within days: his son was coming home. Prince Harry, Meghan and their two children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, are leaving Montecito, the Santa Barbara enclave they settled into after stepping back from royal duties in 2020, and relocating to a private, non-royal residence outside London. The children are expected to start at a British school in September. There is no plan for either parent to resume royal duties.

The timing is what makes the story land differently than it might have five years ago. It arrives in a week when record numbers of Americans are quietly doing versions of the same thing, for reasons that have nothing to do with a family reconciliation and a school term.

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