Where does Prince Harry live? Before he met his future wife, Harry grew up in Kensington Palace and spent weekends at his family’s 18th-century country retreat, Highgrove House, in Gloucestershire. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle grew up in Los Angeles, eventually splitting her time in Canada to film seven seasons of the series Suits. The couple married in 2018 and Meghan joined Harry at his Kensington Palace home. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also resided in a Cotswolds retreat and a cottage at Windsor Palace before stepping aside from their royal duties in 2020. They now reside in a Montecito, California, estate—the only home that either have ever owned. Read on to explore the details of the pair’s dwellings over the years.
Harry’s Clarence House residence
From 2003, when he was 19 years old, until 2012, Prince Harry’s official residence was at Clarence House in London with his father, Charles III. He had a bedroom and a study in the 19th-century Regency-style estate, which is still the London residence of King Charles. Designed by architect John Nash, the historic house was built between 1825 and 1827 for the Duke of Clarence, who would become King William IV. At 27, Harry was ready to have more space to himself, so he packed up and moved to Kensington Palace. In his memoir, Spare, Harry revealed that his stepmother Camilla turned his bedroom into her personal dressing room when he moved out of the 19th-century estate. “I tried not to care. But especially the first time I saw it, I cared,” he wrote.
Meghan’s Los Angeles home
From 2011 until 2014, the future Duchess of Sussex was married to producer Trevor Engelson. The former pair rented a two-story Colonial in LA’s Hancock Park neighborhood for their marital dwelling. Spanning about 2,300 square feet, the 1920s home had an open floor plan, a fireplace-warmed living room, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, blond hardwood floors, and white walls. Floor-to-ceiling windows made the home an inviting, light-filled space. It was also great for entertaining; the formal dining room was lined with French doors that spilled out onto a backyard patio.
Meghan’s Toronto home
For seven seasons, from 2011 to 2018, Meghan portrayed the character Rachel Zane on the US Network series Suits, which filmed in Toronto. The Los Angeles native maintained a three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental in the Canadian city until she and Harry got engaged in 2017. Though she spent a lot of time living there, it wasn’t without its challenges. Namely, the cold weather. “Seven Canadian winters!” Meghan exclaimed to Vanity Fair while recounting her time in Toronto. “A long time for someone who grew up in Southern California.” The A-frame dwelling had a mauve façade, charcoal trim, a turquoise front door, and a covered porch. The future royal decorated the dwelling with her native California in mind, opting for exposed hardwood floors and maximized natural light. Harry recalled visiting the charming abode in Spare. “Meg was excited to show me her life, her dogs, her little house, which she adored,” he wrote.
Nottingham Cottage
When Prince Harry moved from Clarence House to Kensington Palace in 2012, he briefly stayed in a one-bedroom apartment in a wing off of Nottingham Cottage, a 17th-century residence in the northern section of the palace grounds, where his brother Prince William and Princess Kate lived at the time. The following year, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge moved into a larger residence inside the main building, and Harry took over Nott Cott, as it’s often nicknamed.
In November 2017, Harry and Meghan were engaged, and the actor joined the prince at the two-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling. “With Suits over, so is Meghan’s life in Toronto. It’s the end of a really precious era, so she’s definitely sad to see it come to an end, but she’s also really excited about starting a new chapter with Harry,” a source told Us Weekly. Though they lived at a royal residence, it wasn’t as grand as one might imagine. A black-and-white checkerboard tiled kitchen, a small living room, and a dining room rounded out the red brick home, which spanned a modest 1,300 square feet. “Kensington Palace sounds very regal, of course it does,” she says. “It says ‘palace’ in the name. But Nottingham Cottage was so small,” the Duchess said in episode four of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. Harry added, “The whole thing’s on a slight lean, really low ceilings. I don’t know who was there before, they must have been very short.” Shortly before the May 2019 birth of the couple’s eldest child, Archie, they moved out of Nottingham and into Frogmore Cottage.
Cotswolds escape
Right after their May 2018 wedding, the Sussexes signed a two-year lease on a $5.4 million Cotswolds getaway. Located on the Great Tew Estate near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, the four-bedroom farmhouse was known as Westfield Large. The four-acre property reportedly also had a separate two-bedroom cottage and a converted barn with two kitchens and a heated patio. The bucolic sprawl provided the couple with some peace from the public eye. The royal pair split their time between here and Nottingham Cottage while awaiting the completion of renovations at Frogmore Cottage. In March 2019, they moved out of the countryside retreat.
Frogmore Cottage
Harry and Meghan’s next residence was a house on the grounds of Windsor Castle. Known as Frogmore Cottage, the home was a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth II. While the newlyweds lived at Nottingham Cottage and the Cotswolds, extensive renovations reportedly transformed Frogmore from a five-unit dwelling into a five-bedroom single-family home, costing about $3 million. A yoga studio, modern kitchen, guest wing, and a baby nursery with a neutral color scheme were among the home’s new features. The majority of the construction wrapped up in time for the growing family to move in right before Archie was born in the spring of 2019.
After announcing their decision to step back from royal duty in January 2020, Harry and Meghan repaid the Sovereign Grant money that was used to renovate the home, and announced that they would split their time between North America and the UK. In March 2023, the duke and duchess were asked to vacate the royal property. By the end of June, they had moved out.
Getaway homes and Montecito mansion
The Sussexes briefly stayed on Vancouver Island before relocating to Los Angeles in March 2020 ahead of the closing of the US and Canada border due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They stayed at Tyler Perry’s Beverly Hills compound before moving into their current residence in Montecito, California, in July of that year—the first foray into home ownership for both Meghan and Harry. Spanning about 18,700 square feet, the Mediterranean-style mansion reportedly cost the pair $14.65 million. The 7.4-acre property boasts nine bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a detached guesthouse, a teahouse, a tennis court, and a swimming pool.
Over the years, Harry and Meghan have offered the public small glimpses of their life in Santa Barbara county. In March 2021, they showed off their backyard chicken coop during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. That August, the duchess shared a video filmed in a corner of the home with a stone fireplace and a neutral palette. In 2022, Harry shared another peek inside the dwelling, showcasing nature-inspired decor. A few months later, a profile in The Cut revealed that the home’s interior decorating style “evokes a classic Tuscan villa, a Napa vineyard, and a manicured Beverly Hills country club decorated with careful, considered coastal tones for a casual air—the home equivalent of billionaires dressing down in denim,” as journalist Allison P. Davis put it. In 2025, Meghan posted what appeared to be a peek inside the kitchen on her Instagram Story, revealing old-world-style wooden cabinetry, a butcher-block island, blue-and-white patterned tile backsplash, hardwood floors, and a scrolled iron hanging pot rack.
Meghan’s homemaking series on Netflix, With Love, Meghan, is filmed at a separate Montecito mansion rather than the one where the Sussexes actually reside. However, the series still gives viewers a taste of the Duchess’s domestic life. In a season two episode, Meghan revealed the royal treatment that she gives guests who come to stay at the Californian pad. “I think about the two places of a guest’s experience once they’ve gone into their room: What’s at the side of the bed for them? That’s their good morning and good night moment. And what’s in the bathroom for them, so they can have a beautiful soak [and] a nice bath at the end of the night,” she explains on the show, adding that she often gifts her guests with homemade bath salts, custom baskets, and floral arrangements. The latter come from the estate’s gardens, which grow fruits and vegetables in addition to the flowers that Meghan enjoys arranging.
This property is still Harry and Meghan’s primary (and as far as we know, their only) place of residence.
