Prince Harry is reportedly looking for a home in the UK because his friends are not visiting him in the US over “rifts” with his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
The 39-year-old Duke of Sussex is understood to be keen to have a base in London that he can return to instead of staying in hotels when he visits the UK.
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Harry and Meghan lost the use of their former UK base, Frogmore Cottage, in June 2023, three years after moving to the United States and settling in Montecito, California.
Since then, the pair has not had a permanent place of their own in Harry’s homeland.
According to royal commentator Tom Quinn, Harry is “sad” that he no longer has a UK base and wants to rectify the situation soon.
“As time goes by, Harry misses some aspects of his old life in the UK,” Quinn told The Mirror.
“Inevitably, the honeymoon period where everything in the States is new and exciting is coming to an end and Harry is looking back at the past through rose-tinted spectacles.”
Quinn said Harry was likely missing his schoolmates and army friends, “many of whom have not visited as they don’t get on with Meghan.”
In his 2023 memoir Spare, Harry wrote of his sadness after being “evicted” from Frogmore Cottage, where he and Meghan lived from 2019 until they stepped down from royal duties and left the UK a year later.
“Once upon a time, this was going to be my forever home,” he wrote wistfully.
“Instead, it had proved to be just another brief stop.”
Earlier this year, Harry suffered another blow after losing a court challenge against a British government decision to strip him of taxpayer-funded protection when he visited the UK.
He took legal action against the Home Office after it decided in February 2020 he would no longer be given the “same degree” of protection when in the country.
The Duke of Sussex has been vocal about the security of his family, often drawing comparisons between his wife’s treatment to that faced by his mother, Diana.
The late Princess of Wales died in 1997 after suffering internal injuries resulting from a high-speed car crash in Paris.
This legal case is one of several lawsuits that Prince Harry has undertaken in the UK in recent years.
In January this year, he dropped a libel claim he brought against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), the publisher of the Mail on Sunday.
Prince Harry sued ANL for libel over a February 2022 story about the Duke’s High Court case against the UK’s Home Office concerning security arrangements when he and his family visit the country.
In December 2023, the High Court in London ruled that Harry was the victim of phone hacking and other means of “unlawful information gathering” by the publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).
The judge awarded Harry A$267,000 in damages in the ruling.
Harry settled the remaining parts of his phone-hacking case against MGN earlier this month, with his lawyer saying he will receive a “substantial” payout.
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