Prince Harry would still love to bring his wife, Meghan Markle, and their kids back to the UK despite losing security protection.
“He’s not given up hope on bringing his family back to the UK,” a friend of Harry told the Sunday Times Saturday. “He wants to be able to show his children where he grew up. He wants them to know their family here. He really would like to come back to the UK much more.”
Page Six has reached out to Harry’s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back.
The Duke of Sussex, 40, has not brought his entire family — including wife Meghan Markle and their children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4 — to Britain since 2022, when the Sussexes visited for Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee celebrations.
Markle and Harry then visited the UK again in September 2022, after Elizabeth passed away at age 96.
The Prince had been appealing the UK government’s decision to strip him of his publicly funded security after he stepped away from royal family duties and moved to the US.
“I can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point. And the things they’re going to miss, well, everything … I miss the UK,” he told the BBC in May.
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Sources say that the Prince and his aides now acknowledge that “pressing the nuclear button” on a public battle with the courts was “not the wisest idea” and reportedly cost him more than $1 million.
He will reportedly pursue a “quieter, under-the-radar approach,” and the government should expect private “lobbying” from the Invictus Games founder.
This week, Harry is expected in the UK for the WellChild Awards but won’t have any time to meet with his father, King Charles III.
The monarch, 76, has not seen his second-born son since February 2024, when Harry flew to London for a 30-minute meeting with his father after the king announced his cancer diagnosis.
After Harry lost his long-running battle over security for his family, he spoke to the BBC about his estranged relationship with Charles.
“I don’t know how much longer my father has,” he shared. “He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff … Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. Of course, they will never forgive lots of things. But I would love a reconciliation with my family.”
Harry’s blockbuster 2023 memoir, “Spare,” laid bare his fraught relationship with Charles and the former’s brother, Prince William.