Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'follow Princess Eugenie to Portugal' in shock Royal Family move

The California-based couple are understood, however, to have bought a new home in Europe.

According to The Mail, Prince Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, have bought a home in Portugal.

The Sussexes are not the only royals who have a Portuguese property, with Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, owning a home in the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club.

This is a luxury development of 300 properties by the sea in Melides, south of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

Brooksbank, 38, works in marketing and sales for CostaTerra.

Princess Eugenie, 34, and her two sons, August, three, and Ernest, 16 months, split their time between Portugal and London due to Brooksbank's job.

When the Sussexes got engaged in November 2017, Kensington Palace said Meghan would apply for British citizenship in due course, with a spokesman confirming that "she will go through the process [which] takes a number of years".

However, she eventually abandoned her bid to become a British citizen after she and her husband left the country in March 2020, less than two years after their wedding.

A spokesman for the Sussexes confirmed in January last year that they had been asked by the King to give up their British home, Frogmore Cottage.

The five-bedroom property in the grounds of Windsor Castle was offered to Prince Andrew, the King's brother, who rejected a move from the much larger Royal Lodge elsewhere at Windsor.

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The King's move followed the publication of Harry's highly controversial memoir, Spare, in which he criticised members of the Royal Family including his stepmother, Queen Camilla, and his brother and sister-in-law, the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Frogmore Cottage was given to the Sussexes by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2018, shortly after the couple were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Officially, however, the Crown Estate owns the property.

GB News has approached the Sussexes' representatives for comment.