Prince Harry and Meghan Markle might have moved back to Britain for the time being, but they’ll be heading home for the holidays. It was previously reported by the Sunday Times that the Sussexes “know they're not going to be invited” to Christmas with the Royal Family, and now a source has told People that Meghan is “looking forward” to returning to California for the holiday season.
“She does miss home—and her mom,” the insider told People. “They’re planning to come back for the holidays. Meghan’s looking forward to seeing her friends and making plans with them already.”
The Duchess of Sussex is famously close with her mother, Doria Ragland—who also lives in the Los Angeles area—and no doubt Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet miss seeing their grandmother regularly.
A friend of the Sussex family told the Sunday Times that Ragland would be taking the lead when it came to their holiday plans. "For Thanksgiving and Christmas, they will do whatever Doria wants to do,” the source said. “They would love her to come over to the U.K. and spend it with them here, but they will be wherever she wants to be."
Royal watchers have wondered if Harry and Meghan would join King Charles at Sandringham for Christmas now that they’re living in England again, but their friend shut down that idea.
"They won't be having Christmas with the Royal Family. How could that even work?” the source said. “They know it would be too awkward and too difficult. They also know they're not going to be invited, and they're not waiting for an invitation."