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Both rejected requests came after the 39-year-old prince and his wife, Meghan Markle, were thrown out of Frogmore Cottage last spring only weeks before King Charles III’s coronation.
Harry and Meghan were gifted the cottage by the late Queen Elizabeth II, who maintained her decades-long tradition of giving all newly married senior royals a country residence of their own. The Sussex pair were officially based at Kensington Palace, where they had a lavish apartment, which is also the main base of William and Catherine. The renovations needed for the cottage ended up costing British taxpayers over $4 million dollars, which became a controversy once the duo only lived there for one year.
Once “Megxit” happened in early 2020, Princess Eugenie and her spouse, Jack Brooksbank, briefly lived in the cottage for six months before vacating in the spring of 2021, where it has remained abandoned ever since. When Charles III acceded to the throne in September 2022, there was talk he planned on forcing the scandal-ridden Prince Andrew to move to the “less costly” nineteenth-century home.
“Frogmore House is no longer occupied by the royal family but is often used for entertaining,” the Royal Collection Trust website now reads.
