BREAKING NEWS: Meghan Markle shares first glimpse into life with Prince Harry back in the UK
This is the first video the Duchess of Sussex has shared since the royal couple’s return to the UK.
Meghan Markle has shared a new video on her Instagram (Image: Instagram/meghan)
Meghan Markle has taken to her Instagram account to share moments from her and Prince Harry’s life back in the UK. In new videos, the Sussexes and their children, Lilibet and Archie, can be seen out enjoying the English countryside.
The montage of phone-captured footage, which is set to the tune of the 1984 hit Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham! shows various clips of the family out with their dog, and Harry on a boat in a pond fishing with the kids. It opens with Meghan and husband Harry hand in hand, with the Duchess turning towards the camera and playfully shouting “come on, you””.
One touching clip appears to show Lilibet cycling with a doll in the baby bike seat as Archie runs past her.
The video, posted at around 3.30pm on Sunday (September 13) appears to capture one of the children warming their feet in front of a fireplace.
An Union Flag emoji and a heart emoji is overlaid over the selection of clips.
Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior working royals in early 2020, and had spent the last six years living in Montecito, an upscale town in Santa Barbara County, California.
Relations between the pair and the Palace are thought to have been frosty in recent years, with the Sussexes famously sparking international headlines as they publicly criticised the institution, and spoke openly about tensions with other members of the famously private family.
Despite the reported friction, during his time living in the US, the Duke made short trips to see the King, who is undergoing cancer treatment, and visited him with Meghan and their children in July.
In late August the family made a surprise return to the UK, with plans to live there full time and their children to be schooled in Britain.
Though reports suggest the King welcomes the opportunity to spend more time with his grandchildren, a letter put out on his behalf to senior officials in the Government and military reaffirming the King’s position on the Sussexes’ status within the institution, which hasn’t changed following their return.
The message, sent by the Palace’s most senior officer Richard Benyon, noted that the pair are “no longer working Members of The Royal Family” and that there is “no change to the current status of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex”.
“Their styles as His and Her Royal Highness remain in abeyance and are not used.” It added that the “charitable work of the Duke and Duchess is a personal matter for them both and undertaken in their private capacity. In short, their position is akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests”.
