UPDATE, 6/29/26 at 12:49 p.m. ET:
Prince Harry is exploring “every available option” so that Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet can travel to the U.K.
“Prince Harry’s programme in the United Kingdom includes both public and private engagements across the country,” a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex told People on Monday, June 29. “Safe accommodation is only one element of an effective protective security plan because risk follows the person, not the place.”
Questions about security have continued to rise as Harry and wife Meghan Markle’s overseas trip nears.
“The issue has never been accommodation,” Monday’s statement continued. “The issue is whether appropriate and proportionate protective security is being provided throughout the entirety of the visit.”
They added, “The independent Risk Management Board that RAVEC itself decided was necessary last November has still not taken place. It is therefore difficult to understand how the proportionality of the current arrangements can credibly be maintained without that independent assessment.”
People also reported on Monday that a security risk assessment set to take place in March did not occur. Harry and Meghan were reportedly notified that they receive protection on royal property but not while traveling to engagements.
Original story continues below:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly planning to bring their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, across the pond for the first time in years.
Harry, 41, and Meghan, 44, are scheduled to travel to England for the Invictus Games in July, and BBC News reports that Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, will accompany them. (Us Weekly has reached out for comment.)
Harry and Meghan moved from the U.K. to Montecito, California, in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as senior working royals. Upon the pair’s occasional trips back to England, Archie and Lili have seldom joined them.
Harry also filed multiple court requests, asking for enhanced security for Archie and Lili whenever the family did return to the U.K. due to safety concerns. All cases have been denied.
“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” Harry told the BBC in May 2025 after losing an appeal for security. “I love my country, I always have done, despite what some people in that country have done.”
According to Harry, he found it “really quite sad” that he likely wouldn’t be able to share his home country with his children.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” the Duke of Sussex told the BBC, referring to his estrangement from father King Charles III and brother Prince William following his stateside move. “There have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family.”
In the interim, Harry and Meghan have made a home in California.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are hands-on parents to their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. “They take the kids to school, they pick them up, and they are very active and present with them throughout the day,” a family friend of the couple exclusively told Us Weekly in an August cover story. According to […]
“We were looking in this area, and this house kept popping up online in searches,” Meghan recalled in a 2022 interview with The Cut. “We didn’t have jobs, so we just were not going to come and see this house. It wasn’t possible. It’s like when I was younger and you’re window shopping. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to go and look at all the things that I can’t afford. That doesn’t feel good.’”
Despite any initial hesitations, Harry and Meghan decided to tour their dream house.
“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” the As Ever founder recalled to the outlet. “They’re connected at the bottom. He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’ And now every day when Archie goes by us, he says, ‘Hi, Momma. Hi, Papa.’ … You walk in and [feel] joy. And exhale. And calm. It’s healing. You feel free.”
