Why Harry and Meghan's U.K. move 'makes sense,' according to Hollywood expert | Hanomansing Tonight

I'm not especially happy about it because they trashed the whole country numerous times. I think they're a beautiful couple and you know they've done a lot of good work around the world and I think especially Meghan Markle like I don't know why everybody in the UK is always so like up in arms about her. Complete surprise to us isn't it and doesn't fill me with joy doesn't fill me with sadness. Well some mixed feelings there from Londoners about the news that Harry Prince Harry and Meghan plan to move back to the UK. Buckingham Palace confirmed that the couple will return with their children six years after stepping back from royal life. The palace said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will live as private citizens and will not resume official duties for the monarchy. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says security arrangements for the royal couple are a private matter. It's been a contentious matter too for Harry since he lost protection after stepping down from royal duties in 2020. The move back to the UK follows a recent reunion of sorts with King Charles but tensions reportedly remain high between Prince William and Harry. So here to chat a bit more about the royal move is Dominic Patton. He's an executive editor at Deadline.com and he's in LA. Dominic what do you think we're seeing here? Well I think we're seeing a tide shift for sure. I mean just as recently as May Harry said that he couldn't conceive of any notion or any reality where he would be back in the UK. Clearly him and Meghan Markle when they came to the United States out here on the west coast just not that far from LA actually. You know they conducted that prime time interview with Oprah just after Queen Elizabeth II's death. They had a best-selling memoir. Harry had a best-selling memoir. Spare. They had Netflix series, audiobooks, all sorts of lifestyle products and what have you. And then that the flower in the bloom kind of left and I think that they encountered some of the realities that everyone encounters when they rise to fame in Hollywood which is at a point the the caravan moves on. I also think there's another matter here and I think for all of those discussions about their career all the discussions about King Charles's cancer and whatever there's another reality here that some of us might relate to a bit more than others. They are the parents of two young children. Their young children have been registered to begin school in the UK next month. That is clearly one of the major reasons why they are moving back to the UK and as someone who's witnessed the American education system up close and personal I think probably there might be some things that they want to encourage for their children back home in the UK. So I think that's a big factor in what we're looking at here. But the interest and outrage and sometimes affection is still amazing. Right. I was just going to say I mean do you think we're seeing the continuation or the beginning of a royal reconciliation here or is this still splitsville? I think there's a couple of things. I think it can be two things simultaneously. I think that clearly there is still a lot of animosity between Prince William the heir and Prince Harry certainly based on some of the things that were in Harry's book. However, Prince Andrew is no longer a part of the royal family for all practical matters because of his association with Jeffrey Epstein. Princess Anne is getting on a little bit in years so she's not as active as she used to be and various other members of the royal family have also aged out so to speak. So the royal family's thinning out a little bit. So having Harry and Meghan back whether or not they're going back to official royal HRH duties right away or later which I think is what will happen I think that getting them back in the fold is a part of what the royal family needs to do. And remember as Canadians we always think of them as such an institution but the royal family has actually been a very fluid organization for several hundred years. Just the amount of access that Queen Elizabeth II allowed to television out in the public etc etc. Then we saw Diana and now we see the boys and more and more. So I think this is an evolution of that process and staying within the confines of the firm as they call it. But still I mean this has been an especially public and at times almost vicious family feud particularly between the brothers and the brothers' wives. I mean these things it'll take a lot to patch it up I'm guessing. Well I mean look we all assume that. I mean that whatever you know as we all know what happens actually behind closed doors and families is very often very different than what we think. What we do know is it's been a very contentious relationship with Harry and the tabloid press of the UK. Since the moment they landed here in the United States Harry and Meghan pled for privacy and then they made a documentary about it and pled for privacy and wrote a book about it and did a podcast about it etc etc. Harry actually sued UK tabloids several times unsuccessfully I might add most recently. So he's going back into the hailstorm so to speak. On that level that's where the real reconciliation may or may not happen. And we also might see some more of a young person's approach. I think we lost you for a second there Dominic. But great thoughts and thank you very much for being with us tonight. Thank you. That's Dominic Patton. He is an executive editor at Deadline.com.