Prince Harry.Photo:ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images
ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images
Prince Harryhas returned to California following his trip to the U.K., where he spenttwo days giving testimonyagainst Mirror Group Newspapers for alleged unlawful information gathering.
PEOPLE understands the Duke of Sussex is back in Montecito, where he andMeghan Marklemoved in 2020 after stepping back as working members of the royal family.
Prince Harry, 38, traveled to the U.K. this week to appear in a London court. Helaunched the claimin 2019, alleging that his phone voicemails were hacked. MGN is the publisher of theDaily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Expressand more.
On Monday, attorney David Sherborne told the court thatPrince Harry was not available to give evidencethat day after traveling on Sunday night after celebrating his daughterPrincess Lilibet’s second birthday. “His travel arrangements are such and his security arrangements are such that it is a little bit tricky,” Sherborne said, according toReuters.
Prince Harry.Neil Mockford/GC Images
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In his witness statement released Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex said that “tabloids would routinely publish articles about me that were often wrong but interspersed with snippets of truth, which I now think were most likely gleaned from voicemail interception and/or unlawful information gathering.”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.Karwai Tang/WireImage
Karwai Tang/WireImage
During his time in the U.K., PEOPLE understands that Prince Harry stayed atFrogmore Cottage, the Windsor home where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lived before relocating to the United States after a short stint in Canada.
In March, a spokesperson for the couple’s Archewell Foundation confirmed to PEOPLE that Harry and Meghan “have been requested tovacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage.” However, it was unclear when they would officially move out.
The public got a glimpse inside Frogmore Cottage in the Netflix seriesHarry & Meghan, which debuted in December 2022. There,Prince Harryand Meghan shared intimate photos from when they moved out in 2020, along with shots of their two children when the family visited the U.K. for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee last June.
“We both came back in March from Canada, and that was sort of our farewell week,” Harry said of the transatlantic move in 2020.
“We were going through so many boxes, just literally looking at everything, going, ‘Oh my gosh, this blanket I missed, that hat was so funny,’ " Meghan added. “Just taking it all in, and it really just gave us a chance to look back at our whole love story.”
“We always saw Archie running around the garden at Frogmore Cottage, and maybe jumping in the Queen’s pond. That was all part of our future, and everything changed really, really quickly,” Harry shared. “We knew we were going to get some breathing space from this very painful experience that we’d been stuck in, but also at the same time, it was really sad.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
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Prince Harry made several visits to his home country in recent months. Afterappearing at a different court caseagainst the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), publisher of theDaily MailandMail on Sunday, in March, he returned in May to attend his father King Charles' coronation at Westminster Abbey. The trip to the crowning ceremony was also a quick visit, as Prince Harryheaded to the airportshortly following the event, which fell on his son Prince Archie’s 4th birthday.
source: people.com
