Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are adjusting to their new life in England since their shock move back late last month.
Perhaps the biggest adjustment for the couple will come in the following days, when their two children, seven-year-old Archie and Lilibet, five, start at their new British prep school.
Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, are said to be keen to do the school drop-off and pick-up themselves, rather than rely on nannies.
But that comes with a major concern for the high-profile pair.
Police protection
They are said to still be waiting to hear from the Home Office as to whether they will receive any form of taxpayer-funded police protection in the long term.
The Duke of Sussex has spent years fighting to regain his police protection and previously said he didn't feel safe bringing his family to the UK without it.
Now that the family have relocated, he is said to be pushing even harder for taxpayer-funded security.
© GettyHarry was told in July that the risk assessment which he had fought for had finally been conducted. He has since sent multiple letters to the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Ravec) and the Home Secretary, asking for answers about its findings.
The Duke is said to believe he is being denied police protection as a form of "punishment" for quitting royal duties and that the delay in responding is a form of "game play", the Telegraph reports.
Currently, his main area of concern is the school run because of the repetitive routine of both times and places.
"It is absolutely the biggest area of concern," one friend told the publication. "It creates the most dangers."
'A frenzy'
Meghan herself previously suggested doing the school run in Britain would turn into a 'frenzy'. In her 2022 interview with The Cut, she stated that if she lived in the UK, a routine drop-off or pick-up for her son Archie would be accompanied by a massive royal photo call and a paparazzi media frenzy.
However royal commentators and experts, including Robert Jobson, have dismissed those fears, pointing out the strict privacy and self-governing media rules in the UK which heavily protect royal children, and noting that Prince William and Princess Kate have spent years doing the school run without any paparazzi presence.
© InstagramCurrently, Harry and Meghan rely on privately funded security officers, who cannot carry firearms in the UK, nor access the same intelligence as British police.
A source close to Prince Harry previously told The Sunday Times: "His security team cannot even carry a cricket bat as a means of defence – all they'd have is angry rhetoric and their physical strength if someone attacked him or his family.
"With his return home, the game has changed: the first duty of a government is to protect its citizens and that includes Harry, his wife and his children," the source continued, adding: "It's not about the role he has here – it's about the risk he and his family face, and he cannot simply stop being the son of the King."
Why did they move?
Ever since Harry and Meghan announced they were moving back to Britain, there has been one major question - why?
The couple - who married in 2018 - left the UK in 2020, leaving their roles within the royal family to pursue a life away in the US, and Prince Harry said just last year that "he couldn't see a world" in which they would live back in England.
But then two weeks ago, Harry and Meghan made a surprising U-turn and announced they were departing their $11.3 million mansion for a life across the Atlantic with their children.
So why have they returned? According to reports, it's because Harry is making a film about his late mother, Princess Diana - in line with the 30th anniversary of her death next year.
Initial reports of the alleged project came from Richard Kay, Senior Editor-at-large at the Daily Mail, who said on the publication's podcast, Palace Confidential: "I am told that one of the reasons Harry's here is to make a television film, his own film, about his mother."
Richard added: "I know he has been reaching out to his friends and others who knew her, asking them to contribute. That's going to occupy a lot of his headspace over the next 12 months."
© Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty ImagesQueen Elizabeth's former chef, Darren McGrady, seemingly confirmed the reports on Instagram, revealing that there "was a film crew" at the Althorp Estate, where Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, lives, and where Harry and Meghan stayed with Archie and Lilibet on their summer visit to the UK earlier this year.
"Oh, I did wonder if that’s why the film crew were there when I visited Althorp earlier this week. #princessdiana," the former royal chef penned alongside a screenshot of the story revealing Harry's alleged plans.
Meghan breaks silence following UK move
The Duke and Duchess have been able to keep an incredibly low profile since their arrival back in Britain.
However, one heartbreaking event meant that Meghan was forced to break her silence as it was announced that her friend and feminist activist Gloria Steinem had died on 2 September aged 92.
In honour of the sad news, Meghan shared a beautiful, previously unseen photograph of Prince Archie as a toddler with Gloria.
Alongside the image, Meghan wrote in a lengthy statement on Instagram that Gloria spent Thanksgiving dinner with the Sussexes, and had loved Archie and Lilibet "with her whole heart".
"Privately, she was even better than you would imagine - spending Thanksgiving with our family, introducing me to one of my best friends (forever the champion of female friendship), loving our children with her whole heart, counselling me during hard times, and giving extraordinary advice and perspective with a cup of tea and an unrivalled cheekiness and wit," Meghan wrote.
"But my very favourite story about GLO is when she was out one day in NY, and a woman approached her in absolute awe and said she wanted to introduce her young daughter to her (though she was embarrassed to say the young girl may not know who she was).
Meghan concluded: "Gloria replied: 'It doesn’t matter if she knows who I am. What matters is that she knows who SHE is'. Rest in peace, and rest in pride. Look at what you’ve done for all of us. Thank you."
