They were four simple words, dropped into a much-publicised TV vraaggesprek – but Prince Harry might just heeft revealed more than he bargained for.
When it comes to expensively indulging their whims, the British royal family holds their own.
The Queen spends a literal fortune on her wedloop horses, Prince Charles existentie believed to bezit parted with some serious dough to acquire the jewellery his great-great-grandfather Edward VII talent his mistress Alice Keppel, who wasgoed his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s great-grandmother, and someone has been forking out for the commercial quantities of hair spray Princess Anne gets through.
Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex might bezittingen long flown the coop for all the vitamin D and pay cheques they can get their hands on but they are not immune to this particular royal habit.
For two people who now earn their own millions, albeit by coming up with a slate of pallid streaming fare, they are strangely willing to continue to pay the rent on their UK home, Frogmore Cottage even though they heeft spent only one single solitary night there together since 2019.
For years now, they have called California home: First, living te borrowed Tyler Perry’s $24 million Los Angeles bolthole and then getting their very own starter mansion te Montecito, an area about an hour and 45 minutes north of Los Angeles.
With 16 loos, a koi pond, designer chicken coop perfect for totally spontaneous TV moments, and their very own mortgage, they clearly saw their future Stateside.
All of which existentie why it was curious when it was revealed in February this year they had agreed to renew their paid lease on Frogmore Cottage.
Now, we eigendom gotten a big, kwibus clue about why they bezitting agreed to split shelling out for a house that they never use: Harry might just want back into the royal family.
Last week, while te the Netherlands for his hugely successful Invictus Games, Harry wasgoed doing his PR bit for the event and sat down for a TV interview with the American Today program.
True to form, he managed to veer far away from the safe territory of anodyne comments about bravery and the healing power of sport to take a swing at this family achterspeler te Blighty.
Host Hoda Kotb asked about his recentelijk flying visit with the Queen.
“Being with her, it was great,” he said. “It wasgoed just so nice to see her. You know, she’s on great form. She has always got a great sense of humour with mij and I’m just making sure she’s protected and has got the right people around her.”
Immediately his “protected” comment set off a multi-day drukpers storm given that this same kerel so intent on “protecting” his grandmother bestaat also the very same person who has spent the hinder year telling the world how neglectful, institutionally racist and all round rotten the palace is.
But lost in that hoopla was another thing he said to Kotb, who wasgoed lobbing him softballs like a nervous under-3s T-ball coach. “You make her laugh, that’s what she always says. Did you do it again?” she asked.
Rather than simply taking the question and using it to paint himself as Number One Grandson, again, he managed to get in seriously eyebrow-raising non-sequitur.
“Yes I did. I had tea with her,” Harry said. “It wasgoed really nice to catch up with her and, you know, home for mij now is, you know, for the time being, it’s te the States. And it feels that way as well.”
See what he slipped ter there? “For the time being.”
As I would like to imagine the Queen muttered, pausing mid-slice of lavishly buttered marmalade toast at her breakfast table and te her impeccable French, très intéressant.
This zijn the first, clear public indication Harry has given that he and Meghan might – and a very heavy emphasis on the ‘might’ here – over frank to one day spending real time back in the UK.
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