Harry and his American wife moved to live in a villa in the wealthy enclave of Montecito, Southern California, in 2020. Since then, Harry has repeatedly criticised the royal family, including allegations of unconscious racism that were included in a Netflix series and the prince's autobiography, Spare.

Harry and Meghan have lived full-time in California since 2020, and now live with their two children, Archie and Lilibet, in Montecito, outside of Santa Barbara.

All the couple would say at first was that they were introduced by friends in the summer of 2016, but two years later E! News revealed it was Harry's childhood friend Violet von Westenholz who introduced him to Meghan. Von Westenholz had met Meghan while working in PR with Ralph Lauren.