Harry and Meghan’s Potential Return to the Royal Family: What We Know So Far
Harry has been vocal about the barriers keeping him away from his family, despite his desire to reconnect with The Firm. Speaking to the BBC in May 2025, he said it was “impossible” to return under existing arrangements, adding: “I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
Harry and Markle’s son Prince Archie, now 6, left the U.K. with his parents in late 2019, while the couple’s daughter, Princess Lilibet, 4, has visited Britain only once, during the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The Invictus Games have long been central to the couple’s public identity. They have attended together in Toronto, Sydney, The Hague, Dusseldorf, and Canada, as well as appearing at its events in Nigeria in 2024. Meghan first appeared publicly with Harry at the Toronto Games in 2017, a moment widely seen as the beginning of their shared royal journey.
Sources say the timing of this potential return matters. One royal insider said: “If Meghan comes back now, it aligns with Harry’s outreach to the family and his desire for the King to be involved in Invictus. It suggests she is not closing doors but quietly testing whether one might reopen.” Another added: “Some see it as a pragmatic move, a recognition that the royal world she left may yet offer the stability the commercial world has not.”
No final decision has been announced, but Harry is understood to be planning multiple U.K. visits this year tied to his patronages, with the royal family expected to be invited to the 2027 Games.
