Prince Harry Back in the US Already—Here’s Why - Newsweek
Prince Harry has been spotted in New York City, where he is expected to attend an event hosted by the Clinton Foundation, around a month after relocating to Britain with Meghan Markle, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
The Duke of Sussex was filmed walking through Midtown Manhattan by a journalist on Tuesday and is listed as a speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative 2026 Annual Meeting.
His return to the U.S. comes after his first public charity appearances in Britain on Thursday, Friday and Monday, which took place as his uncle Charles Spencer's book about Princess Diana caused a storm in the U.K. media.
Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020 after quitting the palace following a breakdown in royal relations, but moved back to Britain after six years in August.
They kept their house in Montecito and the visit to New York for the Clinton Global Initiative, while no doubt a long-term commitment, further underscores that they have not completely turned their backs on America yet.
Harry will not be the only royal in attendance, as Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is also listed as a speaker, alongside other prominent figures, including Stacey Abrams, the Democrats' former Georgia House of Representatives Minority Leader.
Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton are listed as participants in the same main stage session as Harry, titled "Getting Disruption Right," which focuses on the tensions between technological change and ethics.
The agenda for the session reads: "From breakthroughs reshaping health outcomes, democracies, the global economy, and our environment, the innovation landscape is moving fast—and there’s real reason for excitement and hope. But as new technologies and strategies solve for legacy problems, they inevitably surface new ones.
"Transformative disruption at its best doesn’t just move fast and break things; it replaces systems that no longer serve us with ones that actually work."
It also poses a series of questions: "How do we push boldly into the unknown while staying anchored to safety and ethics? Where does responsibility lie—with innovators, institutions, or the systems built to govern them—when the stakes are this high? And what separates disruption that builds trust from disruption that erodes it?"
The Sussex family moved back to Britain at the end of August and Meghan is yet to attend a public event in the country, though Harry did his first in-person visits promoting the Invictus Games, his Paralympics-style tournament for veterans, on Thursday, in London, and Friday, in Birmingham.
On Monday, he attended the WellChild Awards where he welled up as he paid tribute to the parents of seriously ill children present at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, in London: "To all the mums and dads—most of us will never truly know the emotional ups and downs of your day."
There have been hiccups, however, including an argument with Buckingham Palace over a letter sent on behalf of King Charles III clarifying that the couple are "private citizens," rather than working royals.
The Sussex team felt they were not given enough notice after being sent the memo an hour before it was distributed to the media as well as being sent to officials in government and the military. Aides for Harry had asked for the wording to be changed from "private citizens" to "public figures."
Uganda then pulled out of the Invictus Games, citing a desire to back Charles, which the Sussex camp blamed on the king's letter.
The east African country rejoined Invictus after a call from the king's most senior adviser, Sir Clive Alderton, clarifying that the palace had no objection to the event.
And last week the couple pulled their children out of their U.K. school over fears that traffic jams on the school run might compromise their security. They are now in a new school.
Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Dan Orton and Tony Phillips.
