During last weekend’s Buckingham Palace briefing spree, I kept wondering if King Charles was actually mad because he didn’t know where Prince Harry stayed overnight. BP’s courtiers briefed the Sun, the Telegraph and the Times about “the drama with Harry” and Harry’s breezy visit to the UK just before the Invictus Games. Harry attended the WellChild Awards, stayed overnight somewhere and then visited his grandmother’s crypt the next morning. Harry possibly requested a spare room at Windsor Castle for the night, only to be refused and told that there was no place for him in a 1000-room medieval castle, that he should fly up to Balmoral or something. It was dumb.
What I kept wondering was… did Harry stay at Eugenie and Jack’s UK home, wherever that is? I actually don’t know where they are now – they stayed at Frogmore Cottage for a time as well, much to the chagrin of the rest of the family, but I have no idea where they are now when they’re in England. That’s just it – they spend a lot of time in Portugal now that Jack has a fancy job with some kind of real estate/tourism company. Harry hasn’t seen his favorite cousin since the coronation, and he hasn’t met her new baby Ernest. Well, according to Portugese sources, Harry and Meghan might have stopped into Portugal to spend a little time with Eugenie and Jack post-Invictus.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have taken a detour via Portugal on their way home from the Invictus Games, according to reports. According to Portuguese media, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 39 and 42, took a ‘lightning romantic escape’ to the village of Melides in the Alentejo region of the country following a week in Dusseldorf – and they may have caught up with Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank too. Prince Andrew’s daughter, 33, and her wine merchant husband, 37, have strong ties to the region where Jack works in marketing and sales at the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club.
Now Portuguese magazine Nova Gente has reported that the Sussexes flew back to Montecito, California via Portugal on invitation of Eugenie.
Despite a fraught relationship with most of his family, Prince Harry has revealed he remains close to Eugenie and shared snippets of days out with her in his $100 million Netflix series last December.
The Portuguese magazine reported the Sussexes’ visit to Eugenie and Jack was a ‘mega-secret operation’ which saw them departing Portugal on September 20 on a British Airways flight to London Heathrow airport, accompanied by two bodyguards.
‘The couple reached the plane in a white van carrying just them and their bodyguards,’ a witness told the publication. They added Meghan was wearing a dress with cropped sleeves and flat shoes, with her hair in a ponytail – and she looked ‘tired’ following a busy week at the Invictus Games.
A commenter mentioned, months ago, that one of the most amazing things Diana and Fergie did was encourage their children to interact as siblings and loving family with no agenda. That’s really stuck with me, because it’s really true – Fergie still feels like an aunt to Harry and William, she’s proud of them in that way and she would never say a bad word against them. Diana and Fergie’s plan worked in Harry’s case – he adores Eugenie and Bea so much. The more we see and hear of Harry and Eugenie’s relationship, it really feels like she’s the little sister he always wanted, the trusted confidante and friend. The fact that the Windsors can’t find some way to force Eugenie to cut her ties with Harry is also fascinating to me. Anyway, I kind of believe this – I bet Harry and Meghan both wanted to meet Eugenie’s second son and spend a little time with Jack and Eugenie.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle attend day 4 of the Invictus Games at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 13 Sep 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex at the Merkur Spiel-Arena during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 13 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Vogue World: London show at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Featuring: Princess Eugenie Where: LONDON, United Kingdom When: 14 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Vogue World: London show at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Featuring: Princess Eugenie Where: LONDON, United Kingdom When: 14 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive to watch sitting volleyball at the Merkur Spiel-Arena during the Invictus Games Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex watch sitting volleyball at the Merkur Spiel-Arena during the Invictus Games Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the IG25 and Team Canada Reception at the Hilton Hotel during the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex during day 6 of Invictus Games 2023 at the Merkur Spiel-Arena Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 15 Sep 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- Closing ceremony of the Invictus Games. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany When: 16 Sep 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
My bet they realised they were already in Europe so decided to hop over to see Eugenie, Jack, august and the new baby. Lovely cousin-y thing to do especially as they came out to see them in California.
I hope Harry stayed at royal lodge with aunt Fergie. William’s head would explode 🤯
If Harry stayed at any Royal property it would’ve leaked, randy Andy can’t upset the Apple cart, because he depends on Chucky’s funding.
Aunt Fergie is still living with Uncle Andrew. So, gross
Yeah, that’s why I didn’t say uncle Andrew. I’m choosing to believe (in my fictional visit) that Andrew was off somewhere else.
But Aunt Fergie also bought the $5 M Mayfair pad, right?
Jack (I doubt Bea’s Starter Husband contributed anything), bought that place. It is under legal protection and Fergie cannot sell it without approval of Beatrice and Eugenie. They bought it when talk was ramping up about trying to evict Andrew (and thus Fergie) from Royal Lodge. Fergie doesn’t live in that place, she still lives in her own apartments at RL.
Why are you all painting Fergie in a good light? She’s friends with Piers and his wife. She’s the one who thanked him for going after Meghan after the Oprah interview. She’s been very shady and dismissive of the real sht Meghan and Harry have gone through saying they shouldn’t complain.
Yes and Beatrice is also pals with morgan which is just as shady.
At the start she was welcoming, so much so that she was invited to the wedding as her first ‘return’ to royal life. Once the BRF quickly turned against Harry and Meghan, Fergie turned too. Her shady interview taking pics so close to Frogmore Cottage (March 2019) was a big hint of which direction her grifter heart was headed.
@Ash, ditto. @Lau, Eugenie was also at the same lunch with Piers Morgan after which Beatrice hugged him.
Eugenie is friendly with Piers too. She’s lunched with him and his wife.
@May and @Aurelia, my bad, I had forgotten about that fact. I just don’t understand how Harry chooses to ignore all of that.
To say Eugenie is friendly with Piers just because she attended a lunch he happened to be at is not reasonable. Obama attended dinners and parties that Trump attended. Has even shaken his hand on camera several times. Yet we all know full well they are not and never will be friends.
@ads, it is not Eugenie’s JOB to socialize with Piers Morgan. If one of my cousin’s wife was trashed on the regular in the most horrible of ways, continually, I would go out of my way to ensure that I did nothing to appear as though I was friendly with or supported the tormentor. From the time of the Sussex wedding until Eugenie started living at Frogmore Cottage, we did not hear anything about Eugenie supporting the Sussexes. She did so only when it behooved her. She and her father even made some pissy comments about the Sussexes’ wedding.
Eugenie also did nothing to dispel the emerald tiara issue – and she could have, the Yorks talk to the press all the time.
Eugenie is trying to straddle a fence and “support” the Sussexes to her advantage but not to the point that it pisses off the senior Royals. She does not, in my opinion, deserve Harry and Meghan’s friendship.
@May, my thoughts exactly. If Eugenie is so close to her cousin then she could at the very least publicly call morgan on his crap. And didn’t the media tried to make it sounds like as if she was upset that Meghan and Harry had announced the pregnancy to like two people at her wedding ? I vaguely remember something like that but she never said anything to contradict the story.
Yes, @lau, yet another example of Eugenie benefiting by adverse gossip about Meghan. Much like Kate does – made out, by the press, to look like a victim to garner attention, sympathy, etc. Along with the ridiculous Meghan Told People She Was Pregnant At My Wedding fiasco, it was also reported that Eugenie was mad at the Sussexes for not attending long enough or all of her wedding events that weekend. Never mind that they were leaving that Sunday for Australia! In my opinion, Eugenie is a real piece of work and just as grubby as her sibling and parents.
Diana’s sister has a flat in London and both of Diana’s sisters have been to Lili’s bday & they came to Cali for the Christening. Harry would be secure at their London flat. Diana’s sisters would never leak to the media.
The media loves to pretend that Harry has no family, but that’s a lie, of course. The only family that Harry has nothing to do with are the liars who tried to destroy Harry & his wife – Cowmilla and her pet, & Willnot & Kannot. Harry has aunts, an uncle & cousins and all of Meghan’s mother’s family
I think Eugenie is back at the cottage at Kensington Palace after it was renovated, when she is not in Portugal.
Eugenie might have been in England when the Sussexes (if) they went to Portugal.
I thought the same thing since Eugenie and Bea were in London at Vogue World. I wouldn’t be surprised if Harry stayed at Ivy Cottage with Eugenie and Jack before leaving for Dusseldorf.
If he had stayed at Ivy Cottage, the press would have reported that.
IDK. He managed to film a video with Ed Sheeran at Ivy Cottage without the press catching on until after the fact.
In one of the articles I saw recently, “it was said” that Eugenie and jack split their time bw Portugal and ivy cottage at KP. However, I don’t think it’s been confirmed that they’re still at ivy cottage. I’m not sure the rota actually know. Portugal sounds like a great spot for a meetup though.
Maybe Harry is staying in the Mayfair flat when he’s in London? Since Eugenie and Bea are rumoured to have bought it for Fergie…and it’s not clear if it’s been rented out…it would make sense, as it probably has good security if the Yorks use it as a London pad. Not to mention Eugenie returning the favour for borrowing Frogmore Cottage from Harry and Meghan!
The tabloids would’ve that flat stake out.
Good security = they would get rid of any paps/stakeout
Well if this is true then I hope they had a nice time with his cousin. I also hope that if they did that the tabloids staking out LAX were very disappointed and tough luck to them.
The Portugal article just shows how intent the gutter press is in keeping track of the Sussexes who appear to be their bread and butter for clickbait. Hope they did go to Portugal and had a great time.
Hmmm so much for saying HM wants attention and they’re unpopular. Why are you tracking an unpopular couple that you don’t even fund. Nonsense BM.
I hope they had a lovely visit in Portugal with Eugenie and her family. I might be naïve but I can’t imagine Harry staying at any royal location anymore. It’s just not safe for them.
@Southern Fried
Thank you.
It annoys the shidt out of me when gossips insist in pushing the narrative of the britshidtmedia and that cult family that H has any need or desire to spk wth them about his accommodation arrangements while in England.
I maintain that if H didn’t mention Soho House in Spare, none of those voyeurs wd know, to this day, where H&M had their rendezvous in England before M visited H in NottCott.
And they STILL don’t know whether H&M maintain a suite there or how they come-and-go there!
H has a whole host of options to stay in England when he visits and none of them involve his left-behind cult family and their puppeteers.
I love this for them, they are keeping family relationships alive and exchanging visits I hope the kids get to go next time
I still believe Harry probably stays at SoHo House. It’s private and exclusive and is a special place for him.
I’m sure Eugenie stays at Royal Lodge right? That place is massive .
Can I just say, one of things I love about hanging out here is that so many commenters share facts that put things in context for those of us who aren’t longtime royal watchers. I for one didn’t know that Diana and Fergie encouraged their kids to bond as siblings, but that explains why Harry is close to Eugenie and Bea, and why neither of them has apparently given into pressure to choose sides amongst the family, or to sell out Harry and Meghan in any way.
I hope the Sussexes did get a chance to see Eugenie and Jack, which would certainly have been a welcome break after the intensity (albeit very positive and welcomed) of IG. And of course they needed to meet their new nephew! I’ll bet that Meghan in particular would be fawning — she seems like the doting auntie type.
I agree – I think Auntie Meg would be awesome. I’m hoping someday in about 10 years, Charlotte will show up at Montecito with her suitcase to stay with Auntie Meg & Uncle Harry.
Except fergie then spends time with piers Morgan so I’d trust her as far as I can throw her.
I hope it’s true. And according to the press Eugenie lives at Ivy Cottage at KP.
I don’t trust Fergie either, she’s a diehard grifter and her stubborn allegiance to Andrew and her association with Epstein has tainted her by association. She also threw Diana under the bus in one of her early memoirs by accusing her of giving her a wart on her foot when she borrowed or was given a pair of shoes Diana wore.
It’s a blessing to be friends with someone in your own family. I recently became friends with a cousin I barely knew growing up due to family dynamics and distance. Adulthood has found us living close by and it’s been such a revelation that we enjoy spending time together.
He was so caring of her during that ski photo op when the paparazi were ruining their ski trip.
Someone from the resort Harry and Meghan stayed at confirmed they were there. The resort is owned by someone who worked at Casamigos – so there’s the Jack connection!
Casamigos was sold, it is the former partner of George Clooney and Jack’s boss, who is promoting his business on their backs, at least he had the decency to wait until they were home.
I love Portugal — I’d use any excuse to stop there! Harry and Eugenie seem to be genuinely close … glad he has her amid the nest of vipers that’s his family of origin.
Harry’s relationship with his cousins is like a gift from his mother. Diana was really very wise.
I believe that Harry and Eugenie are close, but I suspect that he doesn’t have the same relationship with Beatrice. I think B and E are work to remain in the royal fold because the wider connections that result are good for Edo’s business. It strikes me that Edo himself is anxious to keep royally connected. At least that’s what it looks like to me.
Edo has always given off wanna be royal vibes. He may well be in love with Beatrice but the HRH Princess title was certainly an attractive plus in his pursuing a relationship. His business must benefit from the royal connection as well. I can’t see him wanting to jeopardise their status by offending William and status is the name of the game over there.
Ironic that he would probably be ultimately better off with Harry’s connections.
Saw this official confirmation on Twitter X – Well done for getting on with their lives like normal people!
‘Jose Santos, head of the Alentejo Tourism Board, confirmed that the Sussexes had enjoyed a “short stay” at the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club resort.’
“I imagine they really enjoyed it and given their family relationship with the place, I am sure they will return to enjoy the wonders that this region has to offer, he said.
“We have no idea how many people linked to cinema, royalty, arts, design and fashion visit us, precisely because they value discreet travel, which is something they find in Alentejo like nowhere else in Europe.”
CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club is a 700-acre residential community owned by a company founded by Mike Meldman, one of George looney’s business partners in tequila firm Casamigos.
If the resort is so “discreet” should he have confirmed the Sussexes stay there?
Exactly! Clearly does not know what discreet means.
Maybe the visit was comped for the attention that H&M bring? Or maybe they allowed their names to be used afterward because of Jack’s connection with the business.