Despite some recent door slamming from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and a few murmurings about Princess Beatrice’s husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, spending solo downtime in St Tropez’s Club 55 (hotly denied: Beatrice was there too apparently), the royal family have had a notably unruffled couple of months. Then last week, just when the most exciting event on the horizon was the decamp to Balmoral, the news broke that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the UK for the first time in four years—with their children.
Gah! You can almost picture the King’s expression—exhausted, troubled—when he was informed that his youngest son and family will be in the country for the one-year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham. Meghan hasn’t been here for more than a stopover between flights since Elizabeth II’s funeral in 2022 and the last time the children were here was for her Platinum Jubilee earlier that year.
