Do Harry And Meghan Have A Future In America Or Should They Sell Their Montecito Home And Move To Canada?

 As people bought commemorative teapots and tea
towels and drank toasts to the queen’s memory in the pub, there were plenty of
questions about what kind of a king Charles would be, Kerr said, but she didn’t
hear much about California’s most famous British ex-pats.

“Nobody’s done any negativity
today,” she said. “Not been really hearing much about that – it’s all about
Elizabeth.”

It’s unclear whether
Elizabeth’s death, at age 96, will do much to change the path Harry and Meghan
have begun to chart for themselves in California. In his first address to the
nation, King Charles III gave their choice his stamp of approval, saying, “I
want to also express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build
their lives overseas.”

The couple live in the
celebrity enclave of Montecito, in a mansion reportedly bought for $14.65m and
have started Archewell, a combination of non-profit and for-profit ventures
that aims to “unleash the power of compassion to drive systemic cultural
change”.

In a move that echoes the
post-White House ambitions of Barack and Michelle Obama, the pair signed a
reported $100m, multi-year deal with Netflix to produce TV shows, films and
children’s programs. Meghan launched a Spotify podcast Archetypes,
featuring interviews with American celebrity royalty such as Serena Williams,
Mariah Carey and Mindy Kaling.

The duo is engaged in several
humanitarian organizations, including Harry’s Invictus Games, and frequently
speaks out on public issues. In November 2021, the New York Times announced the
couple was “getting into finance” and trying to make “sustainable investing
mainstream”; 

Meghan called Republican senators on their personal cell
phones to advocate for paid family leave, and was criticized for introducing
herself as the “Duchess of Sussex”, and Harry, who had served alongside
academic experts on an Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder,
said that he had emailed Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey on 5 January 2021 and
“warned” him “that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged”.

The couple’s Archewell website
encourages readers to share their own personal stories and warns them to be
“mindful of screen time” and not spend too much time online, a reference to
their engagement with the Silicon Valley “Time Well Spent” movement led by the
Center for Humane Technology.