Prince Harry and Meghan Markle celebrate their sixth anniversary today with the royal pomp and ceremony of their wedding day seeming a distant memory. The couple have celebrated many milestones since tying the knot, including the births of their two children, but have drifted ever further apart from Buckingham Palace. As they mark the day of their lavish Windsor Castle wedding, a gaping chasm remains between the media personalities and their British in-laws.
A sixth wedding anniversary is known as ‘sugar’ — the traditional gift for the sweet occasion — but their well publicised rifts with the Palace fold continue to cloud their profile. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been described as standing at a crossroads about the direction they take next in trying to forge out lives independent of their royal antecedents. In the wake of ‘Megxit’, they made a full-time move to the US, where they now live in Montecito, California, with their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, five, and daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, two.
While visits to the UK have been fraught, they have sought to build up an international profile, including on a three-day trip to Nigeria last week. The couple looked relaxed in public outings on the royal-style tour to mark 10 years of the prince’s Invictus Games, which the host country joined for the first time in 2023. They also undertook the trip to champion their Archewell Foundation’s mental health initiatives.
Meghan looked thrilled .
