The prodigal son returns. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom, six years after they decamped, on the cusp of the coronavirus pandemic, to California, amid a fallout with the Royal Family. Reports suggest that the pair will not be employed as working royals. Their children are said to be enrolled in a British school for the fall.
The prince’s return to his homeland might have seemed unthinkable just three years ago, when Harry released his burn-it-all-down memoir, “Spare,” which, as Rebecca Mead wrote in her review, might have been “the most thoroughgoing scything of treacherous royals and their scheming courtiers since the Prince of Denmark’s bloody swath through the halls of Elsinore.”
A few months after the book’s release, Harry’s ghostwriter, J. R. Moehringer, wrote a New Yorker essay about his experience collaborating with the prince, mostly over Zoom—and about how he was drawn into the royal frenzy himself. After news of the memoir leaked, Moehringer grew frustrated with inaccuracies reported by the British press. “I wanted to correct the record, write an op-ed or something, tweet some facts,” Moehringer recalled. “But no. I reminded myself: ghosts don’t speak. One day, though, I did share my frustration with Harry. I bemoaned that these fictions about me were spreading and hardening into orthodoxy. He tilted his head: Welcome to my world, dude.” | 
