Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Freedom Flight to the United States were 5 years ago

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have found its rhythm that lives in California with their children, Prince Sarker and Princess LiliBetAnd the chapter started with what Harry called “Freedom Flight” five years ago today.

In a home video that is shared in the Duke and Duke of Sussex 2022 Netflix documentation Harry & MeghanPrince Harry described his flight from Canada to Los Angeles on March 14, 2020 as “Freedom Flight.” Harry, Meghan and Archie had stayed on Vancouver Island when the couple went back from their working royal roles in the UK, a decision they announced on January.

“Good morning. At Official trailer for the show. “Shh,” he said, raising a finger against his lips.

“Grandma is here,” Harry said and panned the camera to Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, on the private level with them. “Pula is here with a ball in his mouth,” he said, showing the family’s labrador and their beagle, Guy (whose death Meghan announced in January).

“Archie, say hello,” said Meghan in the pictures from the flight before giving her the then 10 -month -old son (now 5) a kiss on her head. “We’re about to go where Mom comes from.”

He turned the camera to talk again and explained that they were on the way thanks to a friend who wanted to help.

“This is the current situation thanks to another fantastic friend we have never met but who believes in us and wants to help,” said Prince Harry in the intimate video shared in Harry & Meghan. He referred to the director Tyler Perrywho offered their Beverly Hills home to the family when they settled in the United States in Meghan’s home state California.

Later the couple would ask Perry to be the godfather of their daughter Princess LiliBetnow 3, which was born in California 2021. While he shows up Harry & MeghanPerry said he was “Absolutely honored“When they asked him to be LiliBet’s godfather.

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Prince Harry and Meghan used Perry’s Beverly Hill’s home as a base with Baby Archie in the spring and summer of 2020 before bought a home in Santa Barbara Eclave in Montecito. In his memoir SparePublished in January 2023, Harry wrote about how Perry’s kindness made the whole difference – with a link to his deceased mother, Princess Diana.

Harry entered Spare that he and his wife contacted Madea The creator after he was enough for Meghan “told her that she was not alone” before the royal wedding 2018, and he talked about how they forwarded him that it felt like there was no one to go. The World Health Organization explained that the Coronavirus outbreak was a global pandemic in March 2020, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to leave Canada before the country closed their borders.

“Look … Take my house,” Harry wrote in Spare As Perry said then. “My house in Los Angeles. It’s gated, it’s safe – you will be safe there. I’ll keep you safe.”

Shocked by the generosity, Harry wrote that when he asked Perry why, he replied, “My mother loved your mother.”

“After your mother visited Harlem, that was. She could not do anything wrong in Maxine Perry’s book,” quoted the Duke by Sussex director. Princess Diana’s travel to New York City In 1989, her first Solo -Utland trip was a working royal and included a memorable stop at the AIDS unit at Harlem Hospital, which joins its broader work on crushing Stigma around the disease.

Prince Harry and Meghan accepted Perry’s offer to use their home when they settled in the United States, with the Duke of Sussex that resembled it with an Xanadu-like paradise. Meghan, 43, was further revealed in an interview in 2022 with The cut that the famous director later gave them a wing As a household gift to their Montecito home and tells them: “Write the soundtrack for your life.”

Talk to people in this week’s Exclusive cover history About to rediscover yourself beyond motherhood, reflects the challenges of building a company and her private world with her family, the duchess of Sussex in the last five years since the move and how much is different.

“Five years ago, Archie was only 8 or 9 months old, so my life has changed so much,” she says, and tells about her motherhood trip to welcome a newborn, be pregnant while raising a child and raised both Archie and Lili. “Anyone who has children will tell you, it’s a huge development as a woman during that time.”

When she looks forward to the next five or even ten years, she is open to what is coming.

“Can you imagine? This is just the beginning. Life is full of surprises,” says Meghan. “And my gosh, in ten years, Archie will drive!”

When Meghan embraces his entrepreneurial assignments (reveals lifestyle brand As always and the Netflix series With love, Meghan In recent weeks) the couple continues their work with the Archewell Foundation as Harry focuses on their philanthropic commitments.

“I can imagine that it is the same as it would be for all couples,” Meghan tells People. “You have your individual jobs, but then you have things you share together.”

“We have been such a close team for so long that we are just beating with each other,” she shares. “And I love it. Being able to be a female founder and do it with my husband’s support means everything.”