Where Do Harry & Meghan Live? Inside The Royals’ Property Portfolio As They Move Back To Britain

Having fled to the US in 2020 – citing fears around privacy, safety and crumbling familial relationships – Harry and Meghan are now set to move back to Blighty later this month. And it looks like the move will be permanent, with Prince Archie (age seven) and Princess Lilibet (age five) both enrolled to start at a yet unnamed British school in September. 

But where will they live? When the pair first made the move across the pond, Prince Harry officially stepped back as a senior member of the royal family. Though the pair still retain their titles of Prince and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they no longer benefit from the same privileges as Prince William and Princess Kate. Crucially, by stepping back from their royal duties they are no longer in receipt of the Sovereign Grant and have to pay for any royal residences out of pocket. 

According to reports, the pair will be moving to a private, non-royal residence outside of London by the end of August. As of now, this is the only information we have about their new home – but this new abode won’t be the only one in their property portfolio. Want to know where do Harry and Meghan live? Here’s your complete guide to everywhere the controversial royals have called home. 

Clarence House, Getty Images

Harry’s Early Years

Though we tend to associate the royals with Buckingham Palace, these days the iconic landmark is more of a tourist hotspot and ceremonial structure than a family home. As a boy, Prince Harry grew up in an apartment in Kensington Palace, before moving to Clarence House – the primary London residence of King Charles – at 19. He stayed living with his father for a further eight years, before going off on his own at 27, when he moved back to Kensington Palace. According to his memoir Spare, when he later visited Clarence House he discovered that Camilla had turned his bedroom into a personal dressing room. ‘I tried not to care,’ he wrote. ‘But especially the first time I saw it, I cared.’

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in episode 108 of With Love, Meghan. (Jake Rosenberg/Netflix © 2025)

Meghan’s Early Years

While Harry was living it up in palaces and historic royal residences, his future-wife had a much more humble upbringing across the pond. She was raised in the View Park–Windsor Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, in a modest family home.

In 2011, the former actress married producer Trevor Engelson. Staying together until 2014, the pair rented a two-storey colonial-style property in LA’s Hancock Park. Spanning 2,300 sqft, the 1920s home is reported to have four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a backyard patio. When she wasn’t living in LA, Meghan also maintained a three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental unit in Toronto so she could be close to the film set of Suits. Meghan portrayed the character of Rachel Zane on the legal drama from 2011 to 2018.

Though Meghan let go of the property following her engagement to Harry in 2017, the prince still found time to visit her Toronto home in the early days of their relationship. He wrote in Spare: ‘Meg was excited to show me her life, her dogs, her little house, which she adored.’ 

Nottingham Cottage

Following their royal engagement, Prince Harry and Meghan moved in together to the two-bedroom, two-bathroom Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace. Affectionately known as Nott Cott, the royal residence is a modest 1,300 sqft in size.

Potentially expecting more from palace life, Meghan said of the cottage in their Harry & Meghan Netflix documentary. ‘Kensington Palace sounds very regal, of course it does. It says “palace” in the name. But Nottingham Cottage was so small.’ She added: ‘The whole thing’s on a slight lean, really low ceilings. I don’t know who was there before, they must have been very short.’ 

Prior to the move, Harry had briefly stayed in a one-bedroom apartment in a wing off of Nottingham Cottage while he was moving from Clarence House to Kensington Palace in 2012. At the time, Prince William and Princess Kate were living in the 17th century abode. They then moved into a larger residence in the main palace, while Harry took over Nott Cott. 

Westfield Large

Soon after their wedding in May 2018, the newly-weds signed a two-year lease on a £4.12m home on the Great Tew Estate in the Cotswolds. Located near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, the four-bedroom farmhouse included four acres of land, a separate two-bedroom cottage, and a converted barn with two kitchens and a patio. The pair split their time between this Cotswold getaway and Nottingham Cottage while their future home of Frogmore Cottage was being renovated. In March 2019, shortly before the birth of Archie in May, they permanently moved out of both Nottingham Cottage and Westfield Large, and into their new home.

Frogmore Cottage

In 2019, Harry and Meghan finally landed their dream home. A wedding present from Queen Elizabeth II, Frogmore Cottage is located on the grounds of Windsor Castle. Expanding it to sufficiently palatial proportions, they transformed the five-unit dwelling into a five-bedroom family home at a cost of around £2.4m. New upgrades included a yoga studio, modern kitchen, guest wing and nursery. Though the renovations were initially funded with tax-payer money, when Harry and Meghan stepped back from royal duties and moved to the US they were forced to repay the Sovereign Grant money. In March 2023 the Sussexes were asked to permanently vacate the royal residence and they officially moved out in June of that year.

Montecito, California

In 2020 Harry and Meghan announced that they were leaving the UK for good. Following a brief stay in Vancouver Island, Canada, and a rest-stop at Tyler Perry’s Beverly Hills home, they finally moved into their new home in July. Located in Montecito, California, the Mediterranean mansion cost the pair a reported £11.05m. Spanning around 18,7000 sqft (a big upgrade from Nott Cott), the seven-acre property boasts nine bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a detached guesthouse, teahouse, tennis court, and swimming pool. Snippets of the home can be spotted in everything from their Oprah Winfrey interview and social media pages to magazine profiles and their various TV shows. For privacy and practicality, Meghan’s Netflix series With Love, Meghan was filmed at a separate Montecito property. 

Portugal

Having returned the keys to Frogmore Cottage in 2023, the royal couple decided to add a new property to their portfolio that same year. The pair snapped up a £6.3m holiday home in Portugal, close to Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank. Located in the exclusive CostaTerra Gold and Ocean Club in Melides, the area is often dubbed ‘The Hamptons of Portugal’ – with other stars such as George Clooney and Paris Hilton also owning homes there. As well as buying up their new British home, reports suggest the royals are currently splashing their Netflix cash on a renovation with designers from Soho House (the pair’s favourite members’ club and the site of their very first date).