Exiled UK royal Prince Harry readily admitted that the United Kingdom is no longer his home and said the United States is during an exclusive interview on NBC’s Today. Harry notably chose not to answer when he was asked whether he misses his dad and brother after their years-long bitter feud.
“Home for me now, for the time being, is in the United States — and it feels that way as well,” the 37-year-old prince told the “Today” show in an interview that aired Wednesday.
In mid-June 2020, Harry and Meghan purchased their multimillion-dollar mansion in Santa Barbara County, California, for $14.7 million.
When asked if “you feel like that’s home more for you,” Harry nodded and said, “Yup.”
“I’m sure it will become a thing,” Harry admitted of having turned his back on the nation, over which his family rules.
Harry gave a series of ambiguous replies when asked by Hoda Kotb if he missed his family, whom he has rarely seen since fleeing Britain and quitting life as a royal at the beginning of 2020.
Nevertheless, Harry quickly changed the topic when asked if he missed his 73-year-old father, Prince Charles, who is heir to the throne, and his once-close 39-year-old brother, Prince William.
“For me, at the moment, I am here focused on these guys,” he said of the military veterans at the 2022 Invictus Games, where he was interviewed.
“That’s my focus here and when I leave here I get back the focus is my family, who I miss massively,” he said of his kids with wife Meghan Markle, son Archie, 2, and daughter Lilibet, 10 months.
Harry pointedly told the interviewer that it was “great” seeing his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, during his recent visit to the United Kingdom — again making no mention of also seeing his dad, Charles.
“It was really nice to see her — to be able to see her in some element of privacy was nice,” he said.
“We have a special relationship with talking about things that she can’t talk about with anybody else,” he said of the Monarch, who turns 96 on Thursday, joking that by now she must be “bored” of birthdays.
Even so, he acknowledged that he might not make it to the United Kingdom for his grandmother’s Jubilee this summer — raising fears that the queen will never get to meet her great-granddaughter nor again see her great-grandson, who left the UK with his father when he was still a baby.
“I don’t know yet — there’s lots of things, with security issues and everything else,” Harry said.
“So this is what I’m trying to try and make it possible — that I can get my kids to meet her,” he told Kotb.
In his ongoing absence from the queen, Harry contended that he was instead “just making sure that she’s, you know, protected and got the right people around her.”
