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Harry & Meghan's future shock 'WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR KIDS'

New Zealand Woman's Weekly

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June 23, 2025

The Sussexes reveal their big royal plans for Archie and Lilibet

- Judy Kean

Harry & Meghan's future shock 'WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR KIDS'

They fled the UK for a new life in California because they felt trapped by being royal.

But now Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are open to their kids one day being working royals.

Sources close to the couple say the Sussexes want Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to keep their titles to support the monarchy by carrying out official duties if they choose to when they're older. The surprising claim was made after it was revealed that the children having titles was believed to have held up their applications for British passports.

Royal expert Jennie Bond says it's perplexing that Harry and Meghan would be happy for Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, to experience what they were so desperate to escape.

image“I really don’t understand why, having extricated themselves from a life they did not enjoy and in which Harry has publicly spoken of feeling trapped, they want to give their children the option of re-joining,” says Jennie. “It makes no sense.

“Who knows what’s going to happen in the future? But it’s very hard to see how two children who are clearly now more American than British would want to change their whole way of life and become working members of the royal family.”

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