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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are set to carry out their first joint public engagement on Thursday since moving back to the United Kingdom in August, media reports said.
King Charles III’s 42-year-old younger son and Meghan will, on that day, visit Nottingham in central England, the city where they made their first joint appearance after announcing their engagement in 2017, the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, reported.
The visit signaled the couple’s “determination to be viewed as public figures," the report said.
That resolve is at odds with a letter last month in which the king made it clear that their position was “akin to private citizens” rather than public figures and that they should not be addressed as his and Her Royal Highnesses.
They are expected to visit projects at three charities that support young people and local communities through music, film, sport and tackling food poverty.
The couple left Britain and quit royal duties in 2020 amid a bitter royal family feud.
Although they have since built bridges with Charles, they remain estranged from Harry’s older brother and heir to the crown, the next in line to the throne, Prince William.
The couple had settled in California, but in a surprise move, Harry and Meghan, 45, returned to live in the United Kingdom with their two young children, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, in August.
The report added that they would return to the United States for Christmas, quoting a friend as saying “they know they’re not going to be invited (to the royal family’s get-together) and they’re not waiting for an invitation”.
The royal family traditionally gathers at the king’s Sandringham estate, his private country residence, in eastern England at Christmas.
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