Why Meghan Markle has flown back to California four days before Prince Harry

, this marked the pair's first joint trip to the U.K. since moving to California in 2020. Their daughter, who is , was born in June 2021 and, as far as we know, has yet to make a trip abroad.Back in February, Prince Harry's lawyers expressed that the duke did not traveling to the U.K.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are heading across the pond with their kids. The couple will attend Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, a spokesperson for the pair confirmed to ET.What's more is they will be bringing their children, Archie and Lilibet, with them to the celebrations, marking the first time their daughter will meet the monarch since being born in Santa Barbara, California, last June. According to a source close to the royal family, the queen is delighted she will be meeting her great-granddaughter for the first time and excited to be able to spend time with Archie and Lili. ET understands Harry’s relatives are also looking forward to meeting the couple's infant daughter and seeing Archie, who is now a 3-year-old toddler. While ET has learned that it was the sovereign herself who invited Harry and Meghan to attend her celebrations, they will not be permitted to partake in the royal family's traditional balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace during the annual Trooping the Colour event.

K.J. Yossman UPDATE: CNN’s royal correspondent Max Foster has said that Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex – and their children Lilibet and Archie – will attend the Queen’s jubilee.

Archie Mountbatten-Windsor's third birthday. On Friday, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's oldest child turned another year older, and his relatives in the United Kingdom were quick to pay tribute to the toddler on social media. Queen Elizabeth II's Instagram page posted a photo on her Story of Her Majesty and Prince Philip greeting Archie when he was just a baby.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to celebrate their son Archie's birthday on Friday 6 May, with the eldest of the couple's two children turning three. Meghan, 40, and Prince Harry, 37, tend to keep their young son out of the spotlight, having only shared a handful of snaps of him over the last three years. The couple, who are also parents to eleven month old daughter Lilibet, will be celebrating Archie's birthday over in California, where they now permanently reside after stepping down as senior royals back in 2020.

Since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back as senior royals in 2020, the couple have remained notoriously private when it comes to their family life. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are parents to Archie, three, and 11 month old Lilibet, have only been pictured as a family once on their 2021 Christmas card. However, after it was announced that 37 year old Harry has pledged to play a season of Polo while in California, we may begin to see more of the adorable family.

A royal author has claimed that Prince Harry was "lost" after he left the army while his brother Prince William's "path was clear".Tina Brown, the author of the new explosive royal book The Palace Papers, spoke to Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show this morning and said that Prince Harry was acutely aware of the fact he was "the number two" sibling when he left the army. The former Vanity Fair editor added that it's "unfair" to blame Meghan Markle for the breakdown of William's relationship with her husband - revealing that there were "real cracks" after Harry left the army and "began to feel marginalised" while William was being groomed as future king.

Meghan Markle "hated every second" of her tour of Australia with Prince Harry, a royal author has claimed.The then-newlywedded couple were following in the footsteps of Charles and Diana as they received an enthusiastic welcome from the Australian public, with the pair even announcing they were expecting their first child, Archie, while on the tour. But according to royal author Tina Brown, Meghan found the itinerary for the 2018 tour "pointless", which features in the author's new book The Palace Papers.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle "completely underestimated" the realities of life out with the Royal Family, an author has claimed.

Queen Elizabeth II was concerned when her grandson, Prince Harry, and his wife Meghan Markle decided they were ready to quit royal duties. In 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were stepping back as senior members of the British royal family.The press quickly labeled the move "Megxit" and the nickname stuck.

Together again … almost. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle didn’t see Prince William and Duchess Kate during their secret visit to Queen Elizabeth II‘s Windsor Castle residence.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are being protected by a bodyguard who watched over two American presidents. The Invictus Games competition for wounded service personnel and veterans opened Saturday night in the Netherlands with a standing ovation and a tribute from the Duke of Sussex to the Ukrainian team members, who temporarily left their war-torn nation to compete.The Duchess of Sussex was by her husband’s side for the opening ceremony. Harry founded the Invictus Games to aid the rehabilitation of injured or sick military service members and veterans by giving them the chance, and the challenge, to compete in sports events similar to the Paralympics.

Meghan Markle was spotted sharing an adorable moment with her husband Prince Harry as they kicked off the first day of the Invictus Games in the Netherlands on Saturday 16 April.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew in to the country this week after a brief stopover in the UK, and the couple looked poised and ready to brave cameras despite a year of mostly hiding from the limelight at their sprawling Montecito mansion in California. As they met with supporters of the Invictus Games, the royal couple were all smiles as they enjoyed some time outside in the April sunshine.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended their first event of the Invictus Games in The Hague, Netherlands on Friday.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle paid Queen Elizabeth a visit at Windsor Castle while on their way to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games.  This is the royal couple’s first joint visit back to the U.K. since they decided to move to Montecito, California, in March 2020 after stepping back as senior members of the royal family. A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed their visit to People on Thursday.  Although this is the first time the royal couple has made their return together to the U.K., Harry has been back for two occasions.