THE Duchess of Sussex is planning to return to Britain in July for the first time in four years.
Meghan is due to join hubby Prince Harry at an Invictus Games event in Birmingham if their security is approved.
Her planned summer trip comes as the US-based couple are set to hear the result of their taxpayer-funded security review.
Meghan, 44, hopes to be in Birmingham on July 10 at the one-year countdown party for the Invictus Games, which were set up by Harry for wounded soldiers.
She has joined him at previous ceremonies one year before the games in Canada and Germany.
It would be her first time back in the UK since attending Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September 2022.
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Security is always going to be the deciding factor in this.
Source
Although details of the countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games have not been released, ceremonial events featuring the Sussexes are expected.
But a source said: “Security is always going to be the deciding factor in this.”
The Sun exclusively revealed that Ravec, a committee of police, royal and government experts, is reviewing Harry’s bid for taxpayer-funded armed security.
He has previously said he does not believe it is safe to bring his family here.
Plans are in full swing for Meghan to join him in the Midlands, but only if the review goes their way, with a result expected this month.
It is not clear yet if their children could also attend. Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, have not been in the UK since the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, when there were a smattering of boos aimed at Meghan as she arrived for a service at St Paul’s Cathedral.
The Sun yesterday exclusively revealed that Harry, 41, wants his father King Charles to open the Games in Birmingham in July 2027.
Although invites have not been issued, the King and other royals will be asked if they want to attend.
Before that, the Invictus Games Foundation is preparing a string of promotional events in Birmingham this summer.
Invites have been issued to representatives of nations set to take part.
Meghan has previously been a regular at these events.
In February 2024, she joined Harry in Vancouver and Whistler to promote the following year’s Games.
She hit the ski slopes and met competitors as they trained, and was also there at the Games proper 12 months later.
In September 2022, Meghan joined Harry in Dusseldorf for the one-year-out ceremony.
That came just days before the death of Queen Elizabeth II, when the couple were stopping over at Windsor.
The duchess later complained on an episode of her Netflix show “With Love, Meghan” that she did not like spending too much time away from her children.
She said: “The longest I went without being around our kids was almost three weeks. I was . . . not well.”
She did not attend the 12-month Invictus countdown for The Hague in 2019 as it came just after Archie’s birth, but she was there for the games, as she was in 2017 in Toronto.
Meghan and Harry were also in Nigeria in 2024 to support the foundation.
Last month we revealed Ravec will give Harry his first security assessment in six years.
‘Establishment stitch-up’
His automatic right to armed guards was removed when he quit as a working royal in 2020 and moved to California.
He lost his lengthy High Court challenge to the decision last May, calling it a “good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up”.
Sources close to the Sussexes reportedly said it was “nailed on” that the Government would now grant him armed guards.
But The Sun on Sunday understands a decision has not yet been made.
A Sussexes spokesman did not want to comment.
MOMENTUM IS GATHERING
MOMENTUM is gathering for Meghan’s return as well as Harry’s wish for him and his family to get taxpayer-funded armed security.
It comes amid a thawing of relations between Harry and his father King Charles.
It is clear Harry wants to come here with Meghan and their children, and to see his father, who has been battling health issues.
That momentum will only be stopped if Harry’s security review is rejected.
While sources close to the Sussexes are confident, it’s not a done deal yet.
I sat through Harry’s High Court case against the Home Office and never once did I think he’d win.
But the future of Harry’s Royal Family life in the UK depends on Ravec’s decision — as he says he won’t bring Lilibet or Archie, or possibly even Meghan, back to see the King without it.
In reality, any hope of reconciliation with the royals and his father would be finished if he loses.
His wish for Meghan to join him at the Invictus party in July would also be crushed.
On The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show this week we discussed if Charles was being “emotionally blackmailed” by Harry’s threat that he could not return with his children without gun cops.
Any change to his security would in effect rewrite the Megxit terms from 2020. If he wins, will he make a fresh attempt at a half-in, half-out hybrid role which was denied during the talks?
Over the years, due to his moaning he has been effectively sent to his room, then kicked out, cut off and, most hurtfully of all, given the silent treatment.
Now we appear on a course of giving him what he wants in the hope that the complaining stops.
