Prince Harry has inadvertently shone a new light on the day he and his wife Meghan Markle officially vacated Frogmore Cottage.
Little is known about King Charles’s decision to boot out the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from their official residence and how the pair reacted.
However, the fifth-in-line to the throne appears to have linked the eviction from Frogmore Cottage to the beginning of his US residency.
Publicly available filings published by Companies House for “Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex” show the royal wrote June 29, 2023 as the beginning of his residency in the US – the same day Buckingham Palace reportedly confirmed the pair had left Frogmore Cottage.
The change of address was filed this week for Travalyst, the organisation championing sustainable travel led by Prince Harry.
Despite his relocation to the US and new life in California’s Montecito, the Duke has said he still considers Britain his home and a place he wants his children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet Diana to know.
The home on the royal estate in Windsor had been given to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by late Queen Elizabeth II.
The couple lived there for most of 2019, and the cottage was also the first home of their son Prince Archie Harrison, born in May that year.
Prior to moving in, they carried out extensive renovation work. While this expense was at first funded by the Sovereign Grant, Prince Harry paid back the £2.4million after relocating to the US.
The Sussex family moved to California in March 2020, a few weeks after they announced their intentions to step back as working royals.
In early 2023, King Charles told Meghan and Harry they had to vacate the five-bedroom home. By then, the Sussexes had not lived at the Windsor residence for three years.
This request to vacate, which came in the midst of the storm created by Prince Harry’s bombshell autobiography Spare, left Meghan and Harry without an official residence in the UK.
Harry, who has previously spoken about his life in the US, told Good Morning America in February that becoming a citizen of the country “is a thought that has crossed my mind” but he didn’t deem it a “high priority” at the moment.
The change of address on the Travalyst-related document comes as the Heritage Foundation is suing the Department of Homeland Security for access to Harry’s visa records.
