Friday, 21 August 2026

Guess who's coming back?

The biggest off air soap opera with plot twists to rival anything on Eastenders or Coronation Street takes a new turn this week, in fact this is so breaking  news bits are coming in dribs and drabs as I type.

Most of us can recall what we were doing way back in 2018 when Harry and Meghan got married, the start of the spectacular failing out between Harry and Prince William and spouses that run into the Royal Family generally.

This lead to a temporary move to Canada before settling in Montecito, California in the United States where it was widely expected they and their children would stay not least having burned their bridges with the Royals and the wider UK public massively.

We now learn they are to return to the UK after a off/on visit with His Majesty King Charles III and the Queen probably settling somewhere around either Northamptonshire in the South Midlands or the Cotswolds area of Gloucestershire.

One reason it appears to be  Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet's schooling which despite both having identifiable american accents and exposed to that countries culture, the couple appear anxious to have an English education and we are lead to believe school placements are booked for Autumn (Fall) term.

Other reasons include apparently the children getting along well with the Spencers, to whom Princess Diana, Harry's Mom was member of and the meeting with King Charles that seemed to turn out satisfactory.

Reaction will probably be mixed in the Country as a while, I have very mixed views on this as over the last eighteen months or so we've been getting tittle tattle suggesting the patience of the celebs in Montecito had been wearing thin and that it's hardly a inexpensive place to live before we consider how offended many of us feel about the manner their issues with the other royals were handled not least when the Duke of Edinburgh was seriously ill and indeed the period before the late Queen Elizabeth died.

They certainly did not need all this drama but maybe we might see a partial defrosting of the relationships and while I have some concerns around Prince Harry's character, he does have some strengths which can can better use over here.

We'll see.

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