Prince Harry and Meghan Markle return to the U.K.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reportedly returned to the U.K. six years after they moved to California.

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, are said to have landed in the U.K. privately from California, according to British media reports.

A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told the BBC, “This is not something we would comment on.”

The return was reported by media outlets including the BBC and Sky News, with the Daily Telegraph reporting their plane landed at Birmingham International Airport around noon.

Birmingham is a major U.K. city in the West Midlands, about 160 kilometres northwest of London.

News of their departure from the U.S. broke last week . The family has not disclosed why they are returning to England. King Charles III was told of the move on Sunday.

While they live in the U.K., the couple will not be working royals or have any official duties. The family will reportedly live at a private property outside London.

Archie, seven and Lilibet, five, have been enrolled in school and are scheduled to begin in September, the Associated Press reported.

Harry and Meghan plan to maintain their home in Montecito, Calif., and their vacation property in Portugal, the U.S. agency wrote last week.

The couple gave up their royal duties and moved to California more than six years ago, where they secured lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify through their media company, Archewell Productions. Several years later, Harry’s best-selling memoir Spare , published in 2023, deepened a growing chasm among the royals after it aired private details about the family.

Relations with the rest of the Royal Family have soured since then, though Harry has recently expressed an interest in reconciliation so he could spend more time with his father, King Charles, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer .

Harry told the BBC last year , “I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”

“There have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family,” he said, adding that he has now “forgiven” them.

Harry and Meghan visited the U.K. last month, where they met with King Charles and Queen Camilla at Highgrove House, a country estate west of London, Buckingham Palace confirmed.