In December 2023, the Sussex family went on a lowkey vacation to Costa Rica. There was no confirmation of the trip until after Prince Harry and Meghan left CR. It looked like they vacationed with Meghan’s bestie Heather and Heather’s family. I bring this up because the British media rarely “remembers” this or cites it as an example of the Sussexes just living their lives and moving quietly whenever they feel like it. There are multiple examples of Harry and Meghan moving around with a great deal of privacy over the years, much to the dismay of a certain national media. Well, it looks like no one caught wind of the fact that the Sussex fam had a spring-break trip recently!
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry celebrated the Duchess of Sussex’s new business ventures with a spring break trip as a family.
PEOPLE understands that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex enjoyed a sun-soaked spring break getaway with their children, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, to mark the milestone of Meghan’s new projects.
The family getaway comes as Meghan, 43, stepped back into the spotlight this spring with the launch of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan in March, followed by the debut of her lifestyle brand, As ever, in April. Her new podcast with Lemonada Media, Confessions of a Female Founder, also premiered on April 8.
Prince Harry, 40, has been a steadfast and supportive partner throughout.
“I am so happy for my wife and fully support absolutely everything she’s done and continues to do,” the Duke of Sussex tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story.
“I’m incredibly proud,” he says.
At home, parenthood is Harry and Meghan’s focus. Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, are the center of their world in Montecito, California, creating what a source calls “their happy bubble.”
I want to know where they went! I also want to know if Meghan saved some videos and photos from home and posted them on her IG during the vacation to throw people off the scent, because she’s been posting a lot of content on her IG Stories since March. Hm!! It’s more than possible that the Sussexes had a family vacay the same week that Prince William and Kate were skiing in Courchevel. The only difference being, the heir gets millions of pounds from slumlording versus the Sussexes are paying their own way.
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- Bogota, COLOMBIA – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, during a meeting with Vice President Francia Marquez and her partner Rafael Yerney Pinillo in Bogota, on the first day of their 4 day visit to Colombia – Poolphoto by Courtesy of the Vice President’s Office for DPPA. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Francia Márquez BACKGRID USA 15 AUGUST 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Bogota, COLOMBIA – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Vice President Francia Marquez during a summit in alliance with The Archewell Foundaiton and Luminate in Bogota, on the first day of their 4 day visit to Colombia. Pictured: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex BACKGRID USA 15 AUGUST 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Bogota, COLOMBIA – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Vice President Francia Marquez during a summit in alliance with The Archewell Foundaiton and Luminate in Bogota, on the first day of their 4 day visit to Colombia. Pictured: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex BACKGRID USA 15 AUGUST 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Handout photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle during their official visit to the school of drums of the cabildo in Cartagena. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Cartagena, Colombia When: 17 Aug 2024 Credit: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of SussexAbaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Handout photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle during their official visit to the school of drums of the cabildo in Cartagena. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Cartagena, Colombia When: 17 Aug 2024 Credit: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of SussexAbaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Handout photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle during their official visit to the school of drums of the cabildo in Cartagena. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Cartagena, Colombia When: 17 Aug 2024 Credit: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of SussexAbaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Handout photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle during their official visit to the school of drums of the cabildo in Cartagena. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Cartagena, Colombia When: 17 Aug 2024 Credit: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of SussexAbaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Handout photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle during their official visit to the school of drums of the cabildo in Cartagena. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Cartagena, Colombia When: 17 Aug 2024 Credit: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of SussexAbaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I also want to know where they went! But I’m so glad for them that they managed to enjoy it under the radar and weren’t caught by any paps. (And I admit I love the timing: that we learn about this shortly after William and Kate were caught taking their THIRD vacation of 2025!)
I may know where the went. A singing birth, who I didn’t believe at first, told me that her brother, a pilot, told her that coworkers from another privat jet’ dropped them on Hawaii on Oprah’s property in mid March.
*private jet
This! As much as I would love to know where they went, I’m so glad I don’t! Good for them.
A well deserved break from all the real work that those two do!! Harry is great at stealth and it makes a certain salty isle furious!! Hope they had a great time with their little family!!
HUGE respect for H&M: “doin’ their thang” while the Rats run in circles and go crazy! I want to see her vacation clothes!!
Now these two are people who *deserve* a vacation after all the work they’ve done in this first quarter alone!
If it’s true, good for them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she simply banked her content- that’s what most content creators do. You batch film content and release it over time. Very rarely is content made and posted in real time.
Or she could have hired someone to manage her social media page. I believe Princess Meghan is very involved in her social media profile, but I don’t think she’s constantly on her phone posting her stories. And she posts a lot. Princess Meghan is booked and busy, so I would be really surprised if she didn’t have an assistant or something posting for her, with her authorization and approval, of course.
She would still have had to batch film in order for them to have content to post. And you can also schedule posts.
Checking the time of her posts (between child duties, early morning, evening), I think she manages her IGs herself. If they went on vacation, it would’ve been in March, that’s most schools’ Spring Break time in US.
Good for them! love that they are able to move under the radar like this.
And before the trolls come out to play:
1) they are not taxpayer funded in any way shape or form so they can vacation as much as they want.
2) The time they (both of them, but especially Harry) put into Invictus alone is more time than the Waleses will spend working all year, so they are showing its possible to work hard and then treat yourself to a vacation. And that’s not counting ANY of Meghan’s solo work which I’m sure has been countless hours.
so yes, we can criticize one and celebrate the other without being hypocritical, lol.
They also are taking their first holiday with the kids this year, not their third. That’s the main difference outside of the fact they don’t have taxpayers cover their costs.
YES!!!! As I was making my list (you all know I love lists lol) I had a third thing in my head and then couldn’t remember it. THREE vacations in four months is very different from one vacation.
You see you can call this a vacation because they both work. WanK don’t do anything so them going on ski or beach trips is just called Tuesday.
What, no carefully curated cover photos for Paris Match? Gee whiz golly gosh, what a surprise! 🙄
Good for them, I hope they had a lovely time. 🌺🌿
Aw, if true, they went somewhere sun-soaked so good for them.
As the saying goes? What is of public interest and what the public is interested in are two different things. So I am also curious, but I am very grateful with what you have kindly published.
I hope they holiday often and we never know any details.. love this for them.
Same.
I wonder when she posted the bird watching as a family on Insta if they were on vacay.
I would assume that they have taken time to relax and enjoy some downtime as a family, they more than deserve it. They are after all the only royals who actually do real work and all while not being taxpayer funded. I hope they get to have more time as a family to relax and enjoy time together without the rest of the world knowing where they are or what they are doing. Good for them.
I’m willing to bet the photo of Harry and LIlli on the boat, was taken while they were on that vacation.
I love how they’re able to confound the tabloids and move with complete privacy now they no longer have courtiers leaking their every movement (and you know it drives both the tabs and the palace crazy how good they are at keeping everything under wraps).