Six years after they left for California, the Sussexes are heading home. Here's the road that got them here — and the one thing that isn't changing.
Harry and Meghan are reported to be relocating to Britain, ending six years based in Montecito. They are said to be keeping the California house.
A move home is not a return to the job. Reporting is consistent that their status is unchanged: private citizens, no royal duties, no royal residence.
Before any of it, Meghan played Rachel Zane on Suits for seven seasons. She and Harry were introduced through a mutual friend in July 2016.
They married at St George's Chapel, Windsor, on 19 May 2018 and became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex the same morning.
Then came the tours. Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand in one 2018 trip — the high-water mark of their time as working royals.
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 6 May 2019 — during what turned out to be their last full year inside the institution.
They announced they were stepping back and seeking financial independence. By 31 March 2020 they were no longer working members of the family.
Lilibet Diana was born on 4 June 2021, the first of the couple's children born in the US. Her name honoured Diana and Queen Elizabeth II.
Away from the palace they launched Archewell, signed with Netflix, and grew the Invictus Games — the event Harry founded back in 2014.
Six years after leaving, the address changes back. The job does not. That gap is the whole story of the Sussexes in one line.