Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are expected to bring Archie and Lilibet to the United Kingdom in July, a rare family trip that would return all four of them to Harry’s home country for the first time since June 2022. The report, published Wednesday, said the Sussex family is being lined up for a visit next month.
The timing matters because the move puts Harry’s long-running security concerns back at the center of the trip. He has said that the lack of security on British soil is one reason he has kept returning less often, and last year he lost a U.K. court appeal over the protection he and his family are entitled to while spending time in Britain.
For Harry, the July visit would be more than a family holiday. It would be the first time the Sussex family has been back in the United Kingdom since the platinum jubilee in June 2022, when they joined the celebration marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign. Meghan was last in the United Kingdom in September 2022 for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, underlining how rarely she has returned since the couple left in 2020.
That long absence is what gives this trip its weight. Harry and Meghan now live in California with their children, and Archie and Lilibet, who are 7 and 5, have spent most of their lives away from Britain. A visit in July would briefly pull the family back into the country where Harry grew up, even as the reasons for staying away have not gone away.
Harry has tried to balance that break with a push for family repair. Last year, he told the he would love reconciliation with his family and added that there was no point continuing to fight because life is precious. But the practical obstacle has remained unchanged: security. The protection question is still the unresolved part of any return, and it is the one that will shape how comfortable the Sussexes are likely to be during the visit.
There is also the matter of who, if anyone, they will see. Harry and his father Charles met face-to-face in September at Clarence House in London for just under an hour, their first such meeting since 2024. Whether that kind of contact extends to Archie and Lilibet in July is not clear, but it is the obvious question hanging over the trip. For now, the visit looks less like a normal homecoming than a carefully judged test of whether the family can come back safely and stay long enough to make it count.
