Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have been asked to vacate the house within the grounds of King Charles’s Windsor Castle estate, Frogmore Cottage, that they use when they are in Britain, a spokesperson for the pair said on Wednesday.
The monarch had earlier offered the house to his brother, Prince Andrew, according to an earlier story in The Sun newspaper.
Archie and Lilibet, the duke and duchess’s two offspring, now reside with them in California.
The couple’s damning disclosures about Harry’s father, his older brother Prince William, and other royals in his most recent memoir, a Netflix documentary, and a number of TV interviews, according to the newspaper, have led Charles to make this decision.
In 2020, they resigned from their roles as working royals and soon after departed the UK.
The late Queen gave the royal pair Frogmore Cottage, a Grade-II listed 10-bedroom home in the grounds of Windsor Castle in Berkshire.
The Crown Estate’s property underwent renovations by Prince Harry and Meghan in 2018–19 at an expected cost of £2.4 million. Prior to the duke’s full repayment, the cost was originally covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant.
Days after Harry released his explosive memoir, Spare, Buckingham Palace allegedly ordered them to leave the premises in January.
After getting married in 2018, Harry and Meghan relocated to Frogmore Cottage on the grounds of the Windsor Castle estate west of London.
The book, which was published in January and quickly surpassed all previous non-fiction bestsellers in the UK since records started in 1998, contained allegations that Prince Harry had been physically assaulted by the Prince of Wales, his brother. Additionally, he claimed that the Prince of Wales and he had pleaded with their father to forgo marrying Camilla, the current Queen Consort.
The history of the cottage is extensive and rich. It was constructed in 1792 at the request of Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, as a retreat for her and her children from the court.
