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- Prince Harry is opening up about his desire to bring his children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4 to England in the not-too-distant future
- During an interview with U.K. newspaper The Guardian, the duke said “yes I would,” of the children traveling to his homeland
- He also referenced his recent reunion with his father King Charles after 19 months saying that “this week has definitely brought that closer”
Prince Harry would like to take his kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, to the U.K. at some point soon following his recent reunion with his father, King Charles.
While speaking to The Guardian during his recent trip to Ukraine, the Duke of Sussex, 41, said he’d like to take 6-year-old Archie and 4-year-old Lilibet, whom he shares with wife Meghan Markle, 44, back to his native England.
“Yes I would. This week has definitely brought that closer,” Harry told the newspaper, when questioned whether he’d like to bring his children there one day, despite the issues over his security arrangements.
Harry’s latest comments come after he told BBC News in May that he couldn’t “see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” after losing his legal appeal against a government decision that stripped him of automatic police protection when visiting Britain.
“They’re going to miss, well, everything,” Harry — who had his security downgraded five years ago when he stepped back from royal duties in 2020 — continued. “I love my country. I always have done. Despite what some people in that country have done.”
“I miss the U.K., I miss parts of the U.K., of course I do,” he told the outlet at the time. “I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”
The Duke of Sussex is now back at home in California following his recent trip to the U.K., which included visiting several charities close to his heart, giving a speech at the WellChild Awards, and a private tea with his father, King Charles, whom he had not seen for 19 months.
Harry last saw the King, 76, in person in February 2024, days after he revealed he was being treated for an undisclosed cancer. During their latest meeting, the Duke of Sussex was pictured arriving by car at Clarence House at around 5:20 p.m. local time on Sept. 10. He departed the residence about 55 minutes later.
Harry didn’t speak much about his father during his new interview with The Guardian, but did suggest that he didn’t want their recent reunion to be a one-off.
He told the outlet that over the coming year, “the focus really has to be on my dad.”
He added, “I have always loved the UK and I always will love the UK. It’s been good to reconnect with the causes I am passionate about. I have been able to spend some time with people that I have known for so long. It is hard to do it from far away.”
The father and son’s reunion was a landmark moment for the pair. Those close to the duke have told PEOPLE that the King had previously not been taking his calls, and any messages were left unanswered.
Earlier this year, Harry expressed his desire to begin steps towards a rapprochement, telling BBC News in May that he would love “reconciliation.”
He also recognized that some of his actions in recent years, including writing his 2023 memoir Spare, had made it difficult for members of his family to talk to him.
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Harry mentioned his much-talked-about book — in which he famously opened up about life in the royal spotlight — in his interview with The Guardian, telling the paper, “I know that [speaking out] annoys some people and it goes against the narrative. The book? It was a series of corrections to stories already out there. One point of view had been put out, and it needed to be corrected.”
“I don’t believe that I aired my dirty laundry in public. It was a difficult message, but I did it in the best way possible. My conscience is clear,” the Duke of Sussex continued of Spare.
As for being called stubborn, Harry insisted, “It’s not stubbornness, it is having principles … It is not about revenge, it is about accountability,” adding that in life, “you cannot have reconciliation before you have truth.”
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