Ahead of his visit to the UK next month, Prince Harry has made the bombshell decision to cut ties with his home country permanently.
The Duke of Sussex has listed his primary residence as the US, making the change official on Companies House the Daily Mail revealed. The filings show ‘Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex’, records the USA as his ‘New Country/State Usually Resident’.
It comes after debate has raged recently over Harry’s visa, with his memoir Spare admitted drug use in the past.
Campaigners have demanded Harry’s visa application be made public, as in order to apply for a US visa a person must disclose any previous drug use.
However the Department of Homeland Security has refused the request, stating there was no “public interest in disclosure sufficient to override the subject’s privacy interests”.
The Sussexes also no longer have a base in the UK after being forced to relinquish Frogmore Cottage last year. The couple were gifted the home in Windsor by Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding present.
The Duke of Sussex has lived in the USA since 2020, after he and Meghan Markle stepped down from royal duties.
The couple live in Montecito, California with their two children, Prince Archie, four and Princess Lilibet, two.
They have rarely returned to the UK since departing four years ago, with Lilibet only having visited the UK once. Harry’s last trip was in February after King Charles’s cancer diagnosis was announced.
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