Harry and Meghan to move back to the UK

Thursday, August 20, 2026

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are understood to be planning to move their family back to the UK, patients have died or have been harmed because of care failures at an under-fire NHS trust which staff fear could become the next major health scandal, whistleblowers have claimed, and officials have confirmed a case of mad cow disease on a farm in the UK.

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1 | Harry and Meghan to move back to the UK

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3 | Mad cow disease discovered on UK farm, government announces

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