A year on from Megxit, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle look set to stay stateside for the foreseeable future.
Aside from the fact the couple have a baby on the way, documents reportedly filed this month provide a further clue that the couple have no immediate plans to return to the UK.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had set up a foundation – briefly and controversially known as Sussex Royal – in July 2019 as an umbrella organisation for their charity work.
But now the non-profit organisation, renamed in 2020 as MWX Trading, is being closed down completely.
Documents filed with Companies House show the couple made a formal request to shut down the charity on May 4, 2021.
They also appointed a liquidator to supervise the winding-down of the foundation, the Daily Star reports.
The move is a strong hint that Meghan and Harry have no current plans for operations in the UK.
Harry has already suggested that he hopes to make California his permanent home, telling Oprah Winfrey in their March 2021 interview that he loved living in LA because he likes "to have outdoor space where I can go for walks with Archie …and we go for walks as a family and with the dogs.
“You know, we go on hikes or go down to the beach, which is so close,” he added.
The young Prince reveals in his upcoming mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey, The Me You Can’t See, that he still suffers from the trauma of his mother’ sudden death.
He has said in the past that he didn’t allow himself to think about her death for many years, before eventually getting help after a period of “total chaos”.
But, he says in the new documentary, the best thing you can do in those situation is to ask for help: “To make that decision to receive help is not a sign of weakness,” he says.
“In today’s world, more than ever, it is a sign of strength.”
Meghan makes a brief appearance in the show’s trailer, smiling and wearing a T-shirt that says “Raising the Future” in a reference to the couple’s son and the daughter they will soon welcome. The couple told Oprah the baby is due in the “summertime.”
Prince Harry recently explained his decision to leave the Royal Family for the US in an explosive podcast interview.
He discussed his struggles growing up in the spotlight, saying it had felt like "a mixture between The Truman Show and being in a zoo".
He told the Armchair Expert Podcast he would think: "I don't want to be here, I don't want to be doing this, look what it did to my mum. How am I ever going to settle down and have a wife and family when I know it's going to happen again."
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