King Charles 'Putting Pressure' On Prince Harry To Buy UK Home Without Meghan Markle: Royal Expert
King Charles III wants Prince Harry to bring his children over to the U.K. for a longer visit with or without Meghan Markle, a royal expert has claimed.
The British monarch, who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, has seen his grandchildren Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, in person only once since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit royal duties and moved to California in 2020.
This has reportedly led King Charles to urge Prince Harry to look for a new U.K. home and bring along his two kids for a visit, royal author Tom Quinn told the Mirror U.K.
Quinn claimed that King Charles encouraged his younger son to find a home near his residence, Highgrove House, so Archie and Lilibet could visit their grandfather during the weekends like Prince William and Kate Middleton's children do.
But according to Quinn, King Charles reportedly thinks Markle would not join Prince Harry -- something that the monarch apparently doesn't see as an issue.
"King Charles has been putting pressure on Harry to do just this as he is angry that his only relationship with his grandchildren so far is via video calls, which Charles hates," Quinn told the outlet.
"William and Kate's children would spend the weekend at Highgrove and Harry's children could then easily pop over from their house nearby," the royal expert added. "This would neatly get [around] the problem of Meghan -- she just wouldn't need to be there and the children could be whisked back to the States after a week or two."
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Prince Harry and Markle last visited the U.K. together with their children in June 2022 when the late Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee.
During what a royal source described as a "fantastic" visit, Charles met Princess Lilibet for the first time and got to spend time with both her and Prince Archie.
"[Charles] of course hasn't seen his grandson Archie for a bit of time and so it was very, very, very special to have some time with him," the unnamed insider told reporters at the time, according to Town & Country. "He hadn't met Lilibet, his granddaughter, and so to meet her for the first time was I think very emotional, a very wonderful thing."
However, months later, King Charles evicted Prince Harry and Markle from their U.K. home, Frogmore Cottage.
During his fight for security in the U.K., Prince Harry expressed his desire to bring his two children back to his home country for a visit.
However, he claimed that Archie, Lilibet and his wife were not safe there as they no longer had police protection.
"The U.K. is my home. The U.K. is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the United States. That cannot happen if there is no possibility to keep them safe when they are on U.K. soil," Prince Harry said in a statement late last year, according to ITV.
He added, "I can't put my wife in danger like that, and given my experiences in life, I'm reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm's way too."
