People Magazine got an interesting little update on the Frogmore Cottage eviction! I know some of you will scream “it didn’t come from the Sussexes,” but I tend to give props whenever I see a gossip/media outlet actually try to be fair to Prince Harry and Meghan. While I obviously don’t agree with a lot of People’s royal coverage, the fact is that they really do try to walk the middle ground of “being friendly to the Sussexes and the British royals.” Anyway, People’s sources say that the Sussexes are “matter-of-fact” about the eviction, but there’s a note in this piece about how King Charles needs to pay up:
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are not pushing back on King Charles’ decision to evict them from their U.K. home, Frogmore Cottage. A source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are “matter-of-fact” about being requested to leave Frogmore Cottage and aren’t trying to overturn the decision. The source adds that Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, are happy to raise their two children in California, where they moved in 2020 after stepping back as senior members of the royal family.
However, those close to the couple say the decision is “unfortunate” — especially in terms of security, as Frogmore Cottage in Windsor was a haven for the pair and their children, 3-year-old son Archie Harrison and 1-year-old daughter Lilibet Diana, when they visited the U.K.
Last week, a spokesperson for Harry and Meghan told PEOPLE, “We can confirm The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage.”
PEOPLE understands that the couple knew about the move before the release of Prince Harry’s book, Spare, in January.
It remains to be seen whether the couple will receive a refund for part of the $2.9 million they spent on refurbishments and rental costs on the property over several years, as the time on their lease has not yet expired.
Royal historian Robert Lacey tells PEOPLE that King Charles is making moves that Queen Elizabeth did not. “Charles is now the guardian of the institution. The King just can’t sit back,” he says. “It shows Charles has a steel that his mother lacked. The Queen could never bring herself to confront Harry as an adult.”
Is “confront” the correct verb in this case? The royal establishment – which includes Lacey, for better or for worse – has gotten the talking point that this eviction was King Charles showing “strength” – the strength of a petty, vindictive dogsh-t father, as opposed to a man who actually wants to spend time with his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. The fact that they’ve turned “evicting his son who paid for everything, including an advance lease” into some kind of hero’s tale for Charles says a lot about the royal system’s priorities.
Now, it’s news to all of us that the Sussexes were told about the eviction before Spare came out. Sources claimed last week that the palace informed Harry about the eviction on January 11th, the day after Spare came out. Anyway, the Royal Estates better run Harry a check for $3 million right about now.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, ‘60 Minutes’.
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped to launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers who have been injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped to launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers who have been injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attends the press conference during the One Year to Go event, one year before Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023, at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex attend a lunch reception during the Invictus Games One Year to Go event which marks one year before Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Prince Harry Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
So evicting his grandchildren from their haven is a reflection of Charles’ steel? More like his petty cruelty. And bitch better pay that money.
Well after some nasty world wide backlash, the steel turned to jelly real quick.
What these RR’s are losing in all their epically stupid comments about “steel”, is that QE was, and now KFC is, the head of the Church of England. A Church that supposedly follows the Bible that says you forgive others. QE also forgave Sophie for running her mouth and KFC himself for all the things he said about her. They are also overlooking the fact that it involves his young grandchildren and their safety, as well as H&M’s safety. Someone needs to ask them how evicting someone paying a market rate rental and maintaining a property is showing any sense at all. All Charles is doing is making himself look small and petty. Hopefully, this is a sign that PH is realizing just how small KFC is and not a sign that he is merely capitulating to royal demands yet again.
I just read that Eugenie and Jack have formally moved in and are taking over Frogmore Cottage. Which, if true, is a nice compromise. I’d imagine if/when Harry and Meghan come to visit, they can still stay at Frogmore with Eugenie’s blessing.
Would help explain the other rumor that Eugenie is helping H&M get their remaining stuff out.
Meghan seems to be the worst Royal 🙄 but they all want to be her, do what she does, wear what she wears and live in the house that she renovated and decorated 🙄 SMDH. Frogmore Cottage is suddenly the most wanted, they got so much slack for renovating it. I really believe this eviction is a blessing in disguise.
THIS! She’s the “worst” but they try so hard to copy her work ethic, her drive, her style, her accomplishments. Interested in what you mean by this being a blessing in disguise? I’m slightly sad for them because I think they both really did love Frogmore Cottage and the safety it provided. I would miss it too if I were them, especially because they had good memories there before being married, plus being a gift from the Queen and all.
‘The Queen could never bring herself to confront Harry as an adult.”’
Erm the Queen invited Harry but then was forced by others to cancel that invitation.
Harry was always respectful to his grandmother.
I hope they get their money back.
And btw we now know that Charles chose to release the news just before Lili’s christening that he denied to attend. Awful grandfather.
As we learned in Spare, Chas rarely bothered spending quality time with Haz and Wills when they were young, even while living in the same house. It’s a bit of a stretch that Chas would view Frogmore as an opportunity for spending time with his grandchildren. Please. Chas has proven that he’s incapable of that sentiment.
But he did like to keep up the appearance that he did with staged photos. He also complained about not getting to see the Middleton offspring. And recently put out PR about spending time reading to Cam’s grandchildren.
I think Harry would have known the minute the Queen had died that Charles would come for the house. Charles took everything he could from Harry while the Queen was alive so the house would have been the next thing to be taken away.
That’s so sad. Reminds me of when Meghan said “so much has been lost already” during the Oprah invu, I think. And that was two years ago! And they’re STILL trying to take as much as possible from the two, non-taxpayer-funded couple.
I read that they were being offered an apartment in Buck House.
It’s under construction and used to be Andrew’s allegedly…not the same
Definitely not the same as a house with a private yard.
I don’t think that offer is a serious one and this was only leaked because of the backlash Charles received for taking away Frogmore Cottage.
Amybee, where is the backlash coming from? That in particular confuses me about this situation because I thought the prevailing attitude was to punish them and take back everything possible. I think this is the first time since they left that I’m reading about pushback
BP is a construction site and will be for the next 4 years.
It’s well known to be infested with rats, drafty and musty, and full of asbestos.
The “offer” was that they could “stay” in Andrew’s old room, which would probably be untouched after his departure, except of course he took his teddy bears.
It’s beyond me why anyone in their right mind would say yes to that?
Like every royal tabloid storyline the details are loose on facts.
The timing of the eviction has shifted depending on the day and the tabloid you read. The sentiments of the players (landlords and tenants) upon notification of the eviction have shifted depending on the day and the tabloid you read. The timing of when the Sussexes need to vacate has shifted depending on the day and the tabloid you read. The reason for the eviction has shifted depending on the day and the tabloid you read.
These tabloids take a situation and spin it into so many stories to make money it boggles the mind of a sane human. For the sycophants committed to following the tabloids and believing everything they read I can imagine them becoming incensed and potentially insane from the daily spins. I find it all comical to some extent. If not for the threat it all poses for the Sussexes lives and livelihood, I’d dismiss the nonsense of the entire mess.
I pray, whatever the facts of the situation, that the Sussexes are able to move forward with their lives in peace and continue to be financially independent of the Royal Family.
Yeah. Why stay where you’re not wanted. But best believe you will be paying me back what I put into it. With interest if you delay the repayment. You only want to deal with the Sussexes on a business level, well, they mean business.
It’s so funny to me how Meghan had to bankroll so much of their life until Harry tapped into his inheritance. That wasn’t something Charles and Consort Camilla or the Waleses anticipated. A. That women have their own funds and can support their own families or B. Meghan would stay when they financially abused the two of them. Well, not only did she stay with the man she fell in love with, he left with her.
Good, have them take everything, their home they paid for and was a “gift”, they can even take their damn titles and you know what? They will still succeed, win, thrive and occupy all the haters minds! What can be said? When you got it m you got it and these two have it in abundance. Harry and Meghan don’t need that house they don’t need their titles and they don’t need the shitty RF. They are free , happy, beautiful, with healthy children and successful.
Spin in anyway they like, but the fact remains that it is vindictive revenge.
The properties belong to the crown , some are rented out to public. Prince Harry is the first royal who is the king’s son to pay public rental rate for Frogmore cottage and to pay for its renovation from a servant quarters to a royal residence.
So Frogmore was yanked from the Sussexes before Spare dropped? Lacey and the other royal sycophants can’t clean this up at all. I bet the Sussexes are not confirming they are going to the Con-a-Nation until that three million in reno costs and rent is their bank account, along with security. Also the latest story is Chuck is offering Diana’s old apartment in KP for the Sussexes to stay.
Is that where WanK live now? Or is it the one next door?
I sincerely doubt that space has been offered to Sussex Family.
Apartments 8&9 (Diana’s old spaces) are filled with dozens of W&K office staff. W&K have taken so much space at KP for themselves and their staff, who sit around twiddling their thumbs and admitting they don’t speak with W&K more than once a month? Historic Royal Palaces had to do that whole multi-million pound office/storage build under the Orangery.
I hear sour grapes being chewed by Robert Lacey.
Kirk, yep and he is now denegrating the late Queen by saying she lacked steel! She showed more steel in a week than Charlie boy has shown his whole life. Charlie is nothing but a weak gutless man who should never be crowned in any way, let alone as head of the church of England. Maybe he should go back to talking to his plants, because he would feel right at home with the weeds
Charles the horrible parent and grandparent.
What isn’t clear about the eviction is what is meant to happen to Eugenie and Jack? Does this mean they are kicked out too? Or have Eugenie and Jack taken over the lease from Harry and Meghan? And that would mean all talk of pushing Andrew into Frogmore Cottage was just talk and meant to wind up the readers of DM etc?
Eugenie and Jack are Sussex adjacent which means they better watch their backs.
I think its clear that even if they didn’t know 100% that they would be evicted after Spare came out, they probably expected it and so its not that shocking to them. I think they knew this was on Charles’ list of “likely Sussex punishments”.
this really says more about Charles than it does about the Sussexes, and we’ve seen over the past two weeks that the RRs and the BRF were not prepared for how bad it made Charles look.
They’re not fighting it, but they are still owed that money back. These people steal anything not nailed down. Jewels, land, resources. Now they’re trying to grab Harry and Meghan’s house in GB. The Sussexes should go to court to be compensated if necessary.
It’s one thing to know and prepare for the fact that Charles might evict them from Frogmore, but it probably still stung. I imagine that anyone who has been paying attention might guess that yes, Harry’s father really is that petty and the cottage is really the last remaining “leverage” they have on the Sussexes.
But as per usual, the Windsors have played it badly, which is why we hilariously see them backtracking on the time. To me, it’s equally bad whether they evicted the Sussexes before or right after the memoir came out. It shows how impulsive Charles is that he couldn’t at least get through the coronation first. He’s such a weak character.
It’s interesting too, all this new talk about how they knew before Spare came out. It now sounds like, H&M knew they were being thrown out, but still extended an invitation to Lili’s christening anyway. Not going to be any winning for Charles and co. on this one.
Charles is truly weak with William, so he must be seen as strong with Harry. Classic spare dynamics, no?
Royal giving: a seemingly nice gift that requires a large financial investment, and can be yanked back for any petty reason. Let’s make it stick!
“There’s no way I’d take the car my parents offered me. It’s a royal gift. How so, you ask? My parents will be checking the odometer regularly and they’ll take it back if they think I’m driving too much. And it needs a new alternator I’d have to pay for myself.”
“Beware a royal gift.”
I like this. 👍
I would only accept cold, hard cash and you best believe I would have every single one of those bills gone over with a fine tooth comb. More than once.
I’m extremely petty like that.
Why would they fight it, they have an infinitely better home that they own and they barely visit the UK anymore. This is a huge blessing in disguise. That servant’s quarters was one of the things tying them to that place and now that link has been severed. And they get to save a ton of money in the process. Win-win!
I bet as soon as the eviction was leaked to the rags over there the Sussex’s had open invitations to stay at various “friends” homes and or estates in England when or if they chose to visit. I’m sure Elton still has property there along with various others. If they get the money back that they already paid for Frogmore it would be a healthy down payment for a secure gated estate someplace on that isle also. The payments would probably be a lot less than $20,000 a month also which I have seen reported. This move will never look good for Chucky no matter how he tries to spin it the Sussex’s will come out on top.
It’s Britain’s loss. Look at what the British people are left with: Charles, Camilla, Andrew, Sophie, etc. LOL.
I am fed up with reading stories that they were evicted. Eviction usually involves some form of legal papers, and sometimes the presence of an officer of the court to enforce the eviction. It is hard to evict someone who is not in residence at the property, H&M are 5,000+ miles away. The tabloids can crow all they want about an eviction but their ignorance means diddly squat. H&M in their own words makes it clear they were asked to vacate the property.
MikeB, in essence in this case, it’s the same thing. What happens if the Sussexes refuse to vacate? Do you think they will be allowed to continue on with their lease?
That they had a paid up lease on.
So….they were evicted. Harry and Meghan just didn’t file suit to stay.
Nice try though.
Is ti possible that Harry and Eugenie came up with this ( because the Sussexes finally have no intention of spending much time there) and Chuckles and the Rota are trying to frame this as his being “Kingly” rather than two cousins taking care of business?
Mel, I like this take. Leave it to the royals to lie their asses off.
I think this came from KFC through their minions. What sources talks to People? I could see a source talking about the christening. That makes sense to me, because Harry’s Father and Brother refused their invitation to the christening. That’s something the world should know.
This is an attempt to make it okay that KFC evicted/ejected them from Frogmore Cottage. It’s okay because H&M don’t care? Being able to stay somewhere safe in the UK seems like something they would care about.
So, now some story is out that Eugenie & Jack will be living there? How does that help KFC get Andrew out of RL? I’ve thought that was bogus, but I couldn’t figure out why. Frogmore Cottage only has 5 bedrooms, so I can’t see the Cambridges moving in. Would Eugenie and Jack want to spend that much on rent? Couldn’t they buy a house with a mortgage an pay less than that? I still think there’s something more going on. It could simply be that KFC wants H&M out of Frogmore Cottage. Period.
Face it, KFC, you screwed the pooch. Now live with it.
The Sussexes are always treated differently in this firm. The next people to move in won’t necessarily be paying market rent. Whoever is calling the shots here seems to making personal decisions rather than business-focused priorities.
Of the options that I’ve heard discussed, it would be nice if Eugenie and Jack got to continue to live there.
I hope this one wretched act of Charles will be the only one people remember of his reign. He deserves this and certainly earned it.
Poor Harry. I look at that sad header photo and think of the anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) he suffers from because of his past life. And still they won’t let him be, the bastards.