Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly set to travel to the UK next month—with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, in tow. BBC News reported the plans. It is not known yet whether they will see King Charles or other members of the royal family.
The trip will be the first time Prince Harry and Meghan’s children will be in the UK since June 2022, when the family traveled for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. Next month marks one year until the Invictus Games in Birmingham, and the Sussexes have historically attended the “one year to go” events.
Prince Harry was last in the UK this past fall, where he briefly saw his father, King Charles. “This week has definitely brought that closer,” the Duke of Sussex told The Guardian when asked about the possibility of bringing his children to the UK. It was a shift from his comments in spring 2025, when Prince Harry told the BBC, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point.”
In December 2023, too, Harry spoke about the challenges preventing him from bringing his family to the UK. “It was with great sadness for both of us that my wife and I felt forced to step back from this role and leave the country in 2020,” he said in a statement amid a trial over his security arrangements. “The UK is my home. The UK is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the US. That cannot happen if it’s not possible to keep them safe when they are on UK soil. I cannot put my wife in danger like that and, given my experiences in life, I am reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm’s way too.”
It is unclear what the security arrangements for the upcoming visit will be. A government spokesperson told the BBC on Wednesday, “The UK government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ security.”
Town & Country has reached out to Prince Harry and Meghan’s office for comment.
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