Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Moving Back To The UK

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may still have a first look deal at Netflix, but the duo has decided to decamp from Hollywood. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be taking their children back to the UK for an extended period of time.

The duo made headlines in 2020 when they stepped away from their duties as royals and moved to California. While they are returning the UK, they will reportedly remain private individuals and non-working members of the royal family. People reports the couple will also keep a home in Montecito.

The decision comes after the deal between the pair’s Archewell Productions and Netflix — believed to have been an overall pact — was extended, but as a first look agreement — late last year. After ratings cratered in the second half of 2025, there are no plans for a third season of their cooking show With Love, Meghan. The streamer also withdrew as an investor in Markle’s lifestyle brand As Ever.

Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela pushed back on the idea that the duo was on their way out at the streamer.

“We still have a relationship with them. We have movies in development with them. We have an amazing doc with them. They have things in development on the TV and film side. Deals come and go all the time, and we don’t renew so many deals, those just don’t get as much press for obvious reasons. There’s no juicy story there,” Bajaria said earlier this year.

Among those projects is a polo-themed drama, which the Sussexes are executive producing under their Netflix deal. Other features in development include The Wedding Date, which, as Deadline revealed in December, Tracy Oliver has come on board to write based on Jasmine Guillory’s book; and an adaptation of Carley Fortune’s Meet Me at the Lake. 

The Sussex-EP’d documentary Cookie Queens was released two weeks ago by Roadside Attractions. Director Alysa Nahmias’s deep dive into Girl Scout Cookie season had a nice $328k debut on 446 screens.

Markle told Deadline at the film’s Sundance premiere in January, “I was a Girl Scout, my mom was a troupe leader. And I think the value of friendship, of being dedicated to a goal as you can see that in Cookie Queens, it’s so reflective of how these girls stick with something that’s important to them and don’t give up. And self belief is an integral value that comes with being a Girl Scout.”