Six months after getting their eviction discover from King Charles, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have lastly packed up their belongings from their UK property, Frogmore Cottage, and returned the keys.
“We can confirm that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have vacated Frogmore Cottage,” Sir Michael Stevens, Keeper of the Privy Purse, mentioned in a press release.
“The Duke and Duchess have repaid the expenditure incurred by the Sovereign Grant in relation to the renovation of Frogmore Cottage, thus leaving the Crown with a greatly enhanced asset.”
Frogmore Cottage was gifted to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by the late Queen after they received married in 2018. It underwent vital renovations – costing taxpayers a reported £2.4 million ($A4.29 million) – earlier than they finally moved in. They have since repaid the price of the upgrades.
Earlier this yr, it emerged that the King had demanded the couple transfer out of the Windsor property, apparently giving the order simply days after Harry’s explosive memoir Spare was launched.
According to The Sun, their remaining UK possessions have now been shipped to their new house in California, simply days forward of the ultimate deadline given by the monarch.
Harry and Meghan – together with their kids, Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2 – at present reside in Montecito in a $21 million mansion with 9 bedrooms.
Harry’s most up-to-date keep at Frogmore was earlier this month, when he appeared as a witness in a London courtroom within the phone-hacking trial.
But The Sun now claims that ought to he wish to use it as his UK base sooner or later, it’ll have to be by way of a “private agreement” along with his father – with whom his relationship is reportedly nonetheless fairly frosty.
Back in March, when news broke of Harry and Meghan’s eviction from their UK base, royal writer Omid Scobie make clear the couple’s response to the choice.
“It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment,” a supply near the Sussexes reportedly informed him.
“It’s like [the family] want to cut them out of the picture for good.”
Harry and Meghan lived at Frogmore Cottage for lower than a yr earlier than asserting they have been quitting royal duties and shifting abroad in early 2020.
The couple most not too long ago renewed their lease on the property in May final yr, after its momentary residents, Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, moved to Portugal.
Palace officers have refused to touch upon who would possibly grow to be Frogmore Cottage’s subsequent occupants, amid ongoing stories that the disgraced Prince Andrew has been (unsuccessfully) urged by the King to downgrade there from his palatial 30-room Royal Lodge.
The Lodge has been Andrew’s official residence since 2004, and he at present lives there along with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, underneath a 75-year lease which is separate from the Sovereign Grant funding.
Originally printed as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s massive transfer lastly confirmed
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
