Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Finally Move Out of Frogmore Cottage

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially moved out of their U.K. residence at Frogmore Cottage, in accordance to palace officials.

Sir Michael Stevens, keeper of the Privy Purse, declared the progress through a royal finances briefing, Sky Information noted on Thursday, June 29. “We can affirm that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have vacated Frogmore Cottage,” he claimed.

Stevens added that further particulars on the couple’s “arrangements” would not be talked about at the briefing. “Safe to say that, as has formerly been said, the duke and duchess have paid out for the expenditure incurred by the Sovereign Grant in relation to the renovation of Frogmore Cottage, therefore leaving the Crown with a drastically enhanced asset,” he mentioned.

Frogmore Cottage was constructed in 1801 during Queen Charlotte’s reign. Situated about 25 miles from London, Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, settled into the assets in April 2019, approximately 1 12 months after their royal wedding day. The household underwent substantial renovations as the pair prepared to welcome son Archie, now 4.

The Sussexes sooner or later moved to California after saying their plans to stage down from their roles as senior working royals in January 2020. By the end of the yr, Harry had repaid the price tag of the cottage’s renovations — an estimated $3.1 million — to the Sovereign Grant.

Us Weekly verified in March that King Charles III questioned Harry and Meghan to go away the U.K. home. A supply exclusively exposed at the time that the request arrived as “a shock” to the Archewell cofounders.

“There’s practically nothing they can actually do,” the insider extra. “Charles could just as very easily have retained it open for them if he’d wanted to, but it appears to be very clear he does not.”

In accordance to the supply, the king, 74, considered the transfer as a “practical” determination given that “the Sussexes are so not often in the property and it demands to be occupied and taken care of by a whole-time resident.”

Charles — who assumed the throne soon after the demise of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 — “has handle and the closing say” in excess of who will get up residence at the cottage subsequent. “He feels it would be considerably more ideal for [Prince] Andrew,” the supply explained to Us. (Andrew, 63, stepped down from community-struggling with duties in 2019 amid sexual assault accusations. He settled his lawsuit in February 2022, a single month following being stripped of his royal titles.)

The monarch’s ask for arrived soon soon after the launch of Harry’s memoir, Spare. The e book even further strained Harry’s presently rocky partnership with his father — and may well have motivated Charles’ major question. “It’s not tough to place two and two together and deduce that [Harry and Meghan] lost currency with him as nicely as the rest of the royals,” the insider informed Us.

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Next their 2020 exit, Harry and Meghan presented their former residence to his cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank. Harry briefly stayed at Frogmore on returning to the U.K. in April 2021 for Prince Philip‘s funeral.