Prince Harry, the youngest son of Britain's King Charles III, says he has considered becoming a United States citizen after spending four "amazing" years in California with wife Meghan Markle and their two children, but he says obtaining an American passport isn't "a high priority right now."
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Prince Harry appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday morning from Whistler, Canada to promote the Invictus Games, but also spoke about his life in America and visit to England earlier this month, where he met with his father soon after his cancer diagnosis was made public.
Harry is the only non-American citizen in his family of Markle, Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie, and said life in the United States is "amazing. I love every single day."
The prince said he doesn’t necessarily “feel American” but that the citizenship option has “crossed [his] mind.”
Any application to become an American citizen would likely require the prince to renounce his title as Duke of Sussex, the Telegraph reported Friday.
Prince Harry and former actress Meghan Markle married in 2018 and stepped down as senior royals in January of 2020, citing media intrusion and racist treatment of Markle, whose mother is Black. The couple moved to California in June 2020, just over a year after the birth of Prince Archie. Princess Lilibet was born the next year. Their decision did not impact Harry's now-fifth place in line for the British throne and the couple kept their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles. They are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness. In 2021, the couple did an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which they discussed Harry's estrangement from his father, their decision to step down as working royals and Markle's treatment by the royal family, in which she revealed un-named royals made concerning comments about the skin corner of their then-unborn son.
Buckingham Palace earlier this month announced that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer. The type of cancer has not been revealed, but the monarch has begun "regular treatments" for the disease. The news saw Harry fly back to London in a highly-publicized visit to see his father. While Harry wouldn't comment on his father's long term health outlook in the “Good Morning America” interview, he said he plans to visit his father again and that he's "sure" his father's illness can bring the royal family closer together.
"I love my family and the fact that I was able to get on a plane and go to see him, and spend any time with him, I'm grateful for that," Harry said Friday.
$500,000. That's at least how much Prince Harry will get following a settlement with the U.K.’s Mirror Group Newspapers reached last week. The Duke of Sussex sued the Mirror Group in 2019 and alleged they hacked his phone for more than a decade and used what they found to inform at least 140 stories. Britain’s High Court determined in December that Harry’s phone was “hacked to a modest extent."