Rumored ‘Reverse ‘Megxit’ Could End Spell End of Harry and Meghan’s California Dreamin’ — and Beginning of British Comeback

A new report that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are considering returning to Britain puts in sharp relief the shifting dynamics inside the House of Windsor.The dispatch that the Sussexes could be eyeing a new chapter in Blighty comes via the Daily Mail, which surfaces the possibility of a “reverse Megxit” amid reports of “an increasing and significant shift in sentiment, a feeling that the American dream might not be all that it was cracked up to be.” Prince Harry and Ms. Markle moved to Montecito in 2020 in a move called “Megxit,” a pun on Britain’s departure from the European Union in 2016.The move to the Golden State was accompanied by an abdication of their duties as “working royals” — and their relinquishing of the “Royal Highness” honorific, military honors, and public funds. Queen Elizabeth II said she regretted their departure, but that she was “entirely supportive” of their choice. The Sussexes subsequently signed lucrative partnerships with Netflix and Spotify.Word of a prospective return to Prince Harry’s homeland comes days after an 11th hour tea summit convened at Highgrove House between Prince Harry, Ms. Markle, their children — Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet — and King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Vanity Fair described that gathering as a “cloak-and-dagger” operation initiated by the king. Prince William and Kate Middleton, who did not attend, were at a charity event at Windsor about an hour and a half away.Prince Harry saw his father last year, but the monarch had not seen his grandchildren since the queen’s funeral in 2022. The reunion happened at the very end of Prince Harry’s return to England to promote the Invictus Games. While the prince initially signalled that he would bring his family along, that plan was upended by a row with the British Home Office over security. The government insists that the Sussexes’ forfeited status means that they are no longer entitled to taxpayer funded comprehensive protection.Prince Harry also declared that he intended to stay, at least for a night, at Buckingham Palace, the 755-room pile that is the administrative nerve center of the Crown. Just 15 minutes after making that intention public, though, the Palace insisted that the proper preparations and staffing assignments had not been made, rendering a stay impossible. Prince Harry called that “withdrawal” of an invitation a “disappointing” development.Adding to the prince’s woes was a legal wipeout handed down last Tuesday in the $67 million invasion of privacy lawsuit he brought against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail. Prince Harry and a clutch of other celebrities. Sussex called that verdict “complete and obvious whitewash, but sadly not altogether unexpected.” He and his fellow plaintiffs could be on the hook for some $50 million in legal fees.The years since “Megxit” have seen a steady stream of strife between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family, sometimes referred to as “The Firm.” In 2021 the couple went on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show and level accusations of racism against the Windsors. That prompted Prince William, the heir to the throne, to tell reporters that “We’re very much not a racist family.” Ms. Markle also accused Ms. Middleton of making her cry. Relations were further ruptured by the publication of Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare,” a reference to his secondary spot in the line of succession to the British throne. In the book he alleged a violent confrontation between himself and his brother after the Prince of Wales called Ms. Markle “difficult” and “rude.” Sussex also writes — or his ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer does — that the brothers called Camilla a “wicked stepmother.”Prince Harry also insists that it was the Wales’s who insisted that he dress up in 2005 in a Nazi Afrika Korps uniform for a Halloween party that was “native and colonial” themed. Prince Harry subsequently called that a “poor choice of costume.” Approximately 450,700 people from the United Kingdom died in the Second World War. In 2023 the Sussexes bought a house in Portugal, giving them a European basis should they want to spend more time in England. The Daily Mail cites an anonymous source who reckons that “Harry has no desire to be Eurotrash, he is very proudly British and English and wants to be in England but Portugal could be a kind of a stepping stone for a couple of years.”

Rumored ‘Reverse ‘Megxit’ Could End Spell End of Harry and Meghan’s California Dreamin’ — and Beginning of British Comeback

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