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In the two days since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made the bombshell announcement that they\u2019re moving back to the United Kingdom after six tumultuous years in California, theories have been spinning about why the couple would want to return to a country that they\u2019ve both depicted as racist, hostile and a genuine risk to the safety of them and their two young children.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been especially hard for royal observers to wrap their heads around why Meghan wants to live in England again, given that the American former TV actor has become so widely unpopular with the British public \u2014 who feel betrayed by \u201cMegxit\u201d \u2014 that she refused to be seen in public with Harry during their trip to the U.K. in July.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one explanation for \u201cthe Sussex thunderbolt\u201d \u2014 coming from famed editor and royal author Tina Brown and Daily Telegraph reporters Victoria Ward and Camilla Tominey.<\/p>\n

Meghan has a job, these journalists are saying. It\u2019s an acting job, they also say, a return to her old profession after she\u2019s struggled in her efforts to become a Martha Stewart-level lifestyle guru. On the Daily T podcast, Ward and Tominey said the job is in the U.K. while Brown said the identity of the project \u201cis not clear.\u201d The Telegraph and the BBC also said that people from Duke and Duchess of Sussex\u2019s camp have not denied the reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it allows Harry, at last, to get her buy-in for his growing desire to get the hell out of paradise and go home to the world he understands,\u201d Brown wrote on her Fresh Hell Substack.<\/p>\n

But whether or not Meghan has a job waiting for her in the U.K., she reportedly felt she had no choice but to join Harry in moving back to his home country. He was so \u201cmiserable in California and increasingly unhappy with the life they built in Montecito,\u201d entertainment writer Rob Shuter reported on his Naughty But Nice Substack.<\/p>\n

Sources have told Shuter that the \u201cmarriage is in serious trouble \u2014 and moving back to the U.K. is their last attempt to save it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not in a good place,\u201d a source told Shuter. \u201cHarry is deeply unhappy, and Meghan knows she cannot keep asking him to live a life that is making him miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeghan is not doing this because she wants to,\u201d Shuter\u2019s source further said. \u201cShe is doing it because she believes she has to. She does not want to lose Harry, and she knows something has to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the couple fled the U.K. on their \u201cfreedom flight,\u201d complaining about the confines of royal life and the harsh, unrelenting scrutiny of the British media, they touted their potential to become fabulously wealthy media moguls, acclaimed philanthropists and global thought leaders. But in the process of trying to attain what they called \u201cfinancial independence,\u201d they alienated Harry\u2019s family and their crucial ties to the royal establishment by doing a Netflix documentary and publishing a memoir that disparaged family members, the monarchy and aspects of British society.<\/p>\n

It soon became clear that Harry and Meghan\u2019s only creative capital was in their ability to dish royal dirt \u2014 and their source of material began to dry up as King Charles III, Prince William and other members of the royal establishment distanced themselves from the duo. Harry and Meghan eventually lost their lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify, including Netflix\u2019s support of Meghan\u2019s lifestyle show and her As Ever gourmet food products company.<\/p>\n

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The number of setbacks left Harry \u201cmoping around their nine-bedroom, 16-bathroom Montecito mansion, suing tabloids, and instructing staff not to share any negative press with Meghan,\u201d Brown reported.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTension around money (also) was ratcheting up as projects with Netflix and Spotify were either minimally renewed or bit the dust entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another financial catastrophe struck the week Harry and Meghan were in the U.K, Brown continued. He \u201clost big time\u201d in his privacy case against the Daily Mail, and is potentially on the hook with six other defendants, including Elton John, for $24.3 million.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Harry has made no secret of the fact that he wanted to spend more time in the U.K. and reconnect with \u201cthe country, family and sense of belonging he left behind,\u201d Shuter wrote. Among other things, the king was diagnosed with cancer in early 2024, news that no doubt made Harry think he might not have much more time to make things right with his father.<\/p>\n

Harry also made it known that he wanted his children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, to be educated in British schools and to have the opportunity to get to know their grandfather and even some of their royal cousins.<\/p>\n

More cynical royal observers, including Brown, have said that Harry and Meghan need to get back in the king\u2019s good graces sooner rather than later, especially with reports that William has considered stripping them of their royal titles once he ascends to the throne.<\/p>\n

With their return, the king has made it clear that the Sussexes will live in the U.K. as \u201cprivate individuals,\u201d meaning they will not return to royal duties and they will not be given a royal residence to live in, as the Times U.K. reported.<\/p>\n

But royal observers also see Harry hoping he can re-establish his relationship with the king and prove his value as a working member of the royal family. That way, he might be able to force William into reconciling with him \u2014 or to at least consider giving him a job again as a working royal once he becomes king.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe move to the UK solves two identity crises for the Sussexes in one blow,\u201d Brown said, especially given the report that Meghan has an acting job in the UK. \u201cIt was Meghan\u2019s fish-out-of-water misery in London that made a return to England so unlikely before now. \u2026 A job for Meghan frees Harry to make a last run at staying royal before his father dies and his brother ices him out for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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