Six weeks after making their shock move from California to England’s bucolic Cotswolds, sources tell Page Six that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are in a “honeymoon” phase with their new life — despite not yet having seen King Charles.
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Harry → make → Charles
Although Harry is believed to have had multiple phone calls with Charles, the father and son have yet to meet in person, we’re told, as Charles and Queen Camilla have been enjoying a break in Scotland.
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Charles → believe → Scotland
The holiday included a stay at Balmoral Castle, where Harry’s estranged brother, Prince William, Princess Catherine, and their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, joined them.
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children → include → them
The King and Queen, who remain in Scotland but have been popping down to London for meetings, will also undertake a tour to the Caribbean on October 27, so it could be a while before they see the Sussexes.
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they → remain → Sussexes
That is not to say there isn’t still a good chance of Harry and his father reconciling.
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Harry → say → ?
“Absolutely, everyone hopes that father and son can have a closer — more private — relationship,” a royal insider said.
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insider → hop → relationship
“It just does not help when every time they meet or speak it leaks out.”
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it → help → ?
Royal sources told us that Spencer, Harry’s uncle, received a staggering £4 million for the book — “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.”
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Spencer → tell → book
In it, he claims that Charles hissed down the phone that Diana would soon be forgotten following her 1997 death.
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Diana → claim → death
That allegation has not gone down well with the King, whose reps issued a stern denial of the allegations.
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reps → go → allegations
“The fact that Harry was just with his uncle in the summer makes it seem that he has a good relationship with him — and the King is furious about the book,” said another source.
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source → make → book
As fall settles on the English countryside and the Sussex children — Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 — settle into their new schools, many Brits are still baffled by just what made the Sussexes jet back to Harry’s homeland seemingly out of the blue.
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Sussexes → settle → blue
But, we’re told that Harry, 42, and Markle, 45, had been mulling over a decision to return to the UK for the past few years.
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Harry → tell → years
Indeed, this week Harry revealed how he “slipped into depression for two weeks” following ‘Megxit’ back in March 2020 and felt a “crash unlike anything I’d ever felt before”.
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I → reveal → anything
The Duke of Sussex, 42, said he became “useless” after he and his wife sensationally quit both royal life and the UK and fled to British Columbia.
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he → say → Columbia
“Being in Canada, away from the stressful environment where presumably my body was just pumped full of adrenaline, within two or three days, I experienced this adrenaline crash, something that I’d never experienced before,” he told neuroscientist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor in his new grief Masterclass.
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he → pump → Masterclass
“It was as if I needed stress in order to get the adrenaline to make my brain function …
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brain → need → stress
I felt like I couldn’t function.”
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I → feel → ?
They’re thrilled to be back in Harry’s homeland and now plan to stay for at least the school year, which ends next summer, a source in-the-know told us.
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source → ’re → us
This will give Harry time to work on a reported documentary marking the 30th anniversary of his beloved mother Princess Diana’s death and helm next year’s Invictus Games in Birmingham.
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This → give → Birmingham
It also gives enough time for Harry to get his long-awaited wish for armed security from the British government, alongside crucial security briefing.
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Harry → give → briefing
After that, the family could set up home even farther afield — potentially in Canada or even Australia, both places they have an affinity for.
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they → set → affinity
“They love traveling,” said a source in-the-know.
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source → love → know
The Sussexes returned to live in the UK in late August after six years in North America.
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Sussexes → return → America
They have described the move as an “extended stay” with their children, while they plan to live as an “international family,” keeping their homes in California and Portugal.
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they → describe → California
Amid the likelihood of putting both Harry, Markle and the rest of the royal family back in the headlines with “crisis over Christmas”-style stories, the Sussexes don’t plan to join the monarch and Harry’s brother William for the traditional festivities at Sandringham, according to the source in-the-know.
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Instead, they will either remain at the cottage where they are currently staying — on multi-millionaire financier Ian Wace’s estate in Northamptonshire — or return to California for the holidays.
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they → remain → holidays
Either way, they will be joined by Markle’s mom, Doria Ragland.
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they → join → mom
“There is a hierarchy,” said a palace insider, “And the King is the CEO, he’s the boss — what he says go, so it’s better not to put themselves in any difficult position.
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Harry and Markle are planning on making their first official public outing together in the UK within days, we’re told, after being photographed holding hands on a lunch date at The Falkland Arms, a 16th-century pub in the Cotswolds village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.
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we → plan → Tew
The pair were dressed casually, with Markle opting for gluten-free fish and chips and Harry choosing a chicken, ham, and leek pie.
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Harry → dress → pie
And although the couple have not yet made an official appearance together, Markle was seen enjoying afternoon tea with campaigner Malala Yousafzai this past Wednesday in her first London outing since returning to Britain.
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Markle → make → Britain
The Duchess, dressed in a $2,300 outfit, was seen having afternoon tea with the 29-year-old Pakistani activist at the five-star Claridge’s hotel in tony Mayfair.
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Duchess → dress → Mayfair
“They do go way back,” said a source in the know, as the pair have previously bonded over their shared passion for female education.
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pair → go → education
Back in October 2020, Harry and Markle joined Malala — who became the youngest Nobel laureate ever when she was 17 — for a virtual conversation that celebrated the International Day of the Girl.
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that → join → Girl
Since arriving in the UK, the Sussexes have also been pictured spending time with various other friends, including Ellen DeGeneres, 68, and Portia de Rossi, 53, their former neighbors in California, at another local pub in the Cotsworlds.
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Sussexes → arrive → Cotsworlds
They’ve also spent time with Markle’s BFF, Kelly McKee Zajfen, an entrepreneur and activist based in LA, who posted an Instagram carousel of her time visiting the couple in the UK.
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who → spend → UK
The intimate images showed Markle holding her friend’s baby Jack in a pub, Harry cuddling him on a rug on the ground, and a trip to Soho Farmhouse.
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Harry → show → Farmhouse
In her caption, Zajfen wrote: “To everyone we’ve met or bumped into, thank you for being so loving to my friend.
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we → write → friend
It’s been beautiful to witness.
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It → witness → ?
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