Cover Chavenage House, a 16th-century Grade I listed manor near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is illustrative of the region’s architecture near King Charles’s Highgrove estate, an area that could be in contention for Harry and Meghan UK home (Photo: iStock)
Chavenage House, a 16th-century Grade I listed manor near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is illustrative of the region’s architecture near King Charles’s Highgrove estate, an area that could be in contention for Harry and Meghan UK home (Photo: iStock)
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No address is confirmed, but Harry and Meghan’s UK home points to a few places, from their old Cotswolds farmhouse to Vicky Charles’s pared-back design language; here’s where and how they could land.
Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK has left one detail unresolved: where they’ll actually live. The Associated Press, CNN, NBC News, and ABC News confirmed the move in mid-August, with Archie and Lilibet enrolled to start school in Britain this September. No property has been named, and outlets covering the relocation have said the location is being kept deliberately private, reflecting the security concerns that have shaped where the family has lived in the UK before. With no address confirmed, we’ve looked instead at which regions fit the couple’s known ties and constraints.
The precedent
Above Cottages on the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire, where Harry and Meghan leased Westfield Large ahead of their 2018 wedding (Photo: WikiCommons/Philip Halling)
Cottages on the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire, where Harry and Meghan leased Westfield Large ahead of their 2018 wedding (Photo: WikiCommons/Philip Halling)
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The couple’s only previous UK home outside a royal residence offers the clearest reference point. Before their 2018 wedding, they leased Westfield Large, a farmhouse on the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire: a three-bedroom main house, a separate two-bedroom guest cottage, and a converted barn holding two kitchens, set on around four acres near Soho Farmhouse. They left in 2019 after paparazzi located the grounds, a breach of privacy Harry later wrote about in Spare. Whatever comes next would need to solve for the same problem that ended that lease: a perimeter that keeps the house properly hidden, not just picturesque.
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Regions that could work
Above Soho Farmhouse in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, a longtime touchstone for the couple and the site of Vicky Charles’s design work (Photo: Soho Farmhouse)
Above A riverside cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, the kind of secluded, tree-screened setting the region is known for (Photo: Ben Elliot)
Soho Farmhouse in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, a longtime touchstone for the couple and the site of Vicky Charles’s design work (Photo: Soho Farmhouse)
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Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds are the obvious return, given the Westfield Large precedent and the couple’s existing familiarity with the area. It also keeps them close to Soho Farmhouse, a long-standing touchstone, and to Oxford’s independent schools. Some outlets covering the relocation have pointed to this area specifically as under consideration, though it hasn’t been confirmed.
Gloucestershire, particularly around Tetbury, has a practical draw: it sits close to King Charles’s Highgrove estate, and Harry and his father met there privately in July, a sign relations have been thawing. Proximity would make informal visits easier without either side having to make it a public occasion.
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Above Chavenage House, a 16th-century Grade I listed manor near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is illustrative of the region’s architecture near King Charles’s Highgrove estate, an area that could be in contention for Harry and Meghan UK home (Photo: iStock)
Chavenage House, a 16th-century Grade I listed manor near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is illustrative of the region’s architecture near King Charles’s Highgrove estate, an area that could be in contention for Harry and Meghan UK home (Photo: iStock)
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Northamptonshire follows family logic rather than royal protocol. Althorp, the Spencer family seat near the village of Great Brington, belongs to Harry’s uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother. A base within reach of Althorp would put the children near their mother’s side of the family, an angle that’s had relatively little attention compared with the Highgrove speculation.
The Berkshire-Surrey border, around Sunningdale and Wentworth, is the outlier on the list: less about family ties, more about logistics. It’s roughly half an hour from Heathrow, which matters for a family still keeping a home in Montecito and travelling regularly between the US and UK, and the area has an established stock of large, securable private compounds.
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Design language
Above A Charles & Co. interior in the Cotswolds: reclaimed oak, exposed beams and a muted palette typical of Vicky Charles’s work (Photo: Instagram/@charlesandcostudio)
A Charles & Co. interior in the Cotswolds: reclaimed oak, exposed beams and a muted palette typical of Vicky Charles’s work (Photo: Instagram/@charlesandcostudio)
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Unlike the property itself, the couple’s interior aesthetic has a documented source. Vicky Charles, formerly design director at Soho House and now co-founder of Charles & Co., designed the interiors at Soho Farmhouse and later designed Frogmore Cottage for the couple. Her work favours a pared-back, tactile palette: reclaimed materials, neutral tones, comfort prioritised over formality.
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Jennifer Choo is Regional Managing Editor of Tatler Homes, covering architecture, interior design, and art across Asia. Based in Malaysia, she oversees regional content on luxury residential design and contemporary art collections. Legally trained but choosing to pursue her passion for design, she previously led notable design publications and worked as an interior stylist and art consultant for property developers, design firms, and private clients.
