President Donald Trump celebrated Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, saying he was “happy” to see the couple leave the United States.
“I’m happy about it,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “I was not a fan.”
Trump accused Harry and Markle of treating the royal family with “great disrespect” and singled out Markle’s conduct toward the late Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.
“I didn’t like the way she acted,” Trump said. “I thought she was terribly disrespectful to the Queen, to King Charles.”
“If I were the royal family, I would not have taken them back,” he added.
Trump has been a critic of Markle’s for years. When it was suspected she supported his opponent Joe Biden for president in 2020, he said, “I’m not a fan of hers, and I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but I wish a lot of luck to Harry, because he’s going to need it.”
The couple and their two children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, headed back across the pond weeks after giving up their senior royal roles and settling in California during the coronavirus pandemic, as The Daily Wire previously reported. The couple plans to keep their homes in Montecito, California, and Portugal, but their kids will be going to school in the U.K.
The move comes after years of bitter tensions between Harry and his estranged royal family — and just months after an under-the-radar trip to visit with the family.
In July, King Charles III privately met with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and their two children in the first family gathering since the royal rift erupted several years ago. The king and Queen Camilla met with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Archie, and Princess Lilibet at the Highgrove House country estate.
Relations deteriorated after Harry and Meghan’s bombshell 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they accused an unnamed royal family member of raising concerns about how dark their first child Archie’s skin might be. The couple’s Netflix documentary and Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” which also included criticism of the royal family, further deepened the rift. Harry has also remained estranged from his older brother, Prince William, according to multiple reports.
After losing his appeal over government-funded security in Britain in 2025, Harry told the BBC he hoped to reconcile with his family.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore. Life is precious,” Prince Harry said, insisting that the security argument has “always been the sticking point.” He also referenced his father’s cancer battle, saying he didn’t know how much time the king had left.
Harry has visited the U.K. without his wife on multiple occasions in recent years, including for his father’s coronation in 2023.
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