Prince Harry has revealed he has considered becoming an American citizen, four years after he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, announced they would end their royal duties and move to California.
“It’s a thought that has crossed my mind but it’s not a high priority for me right now,” the Duke of Sussex said in a new interview.
Speaking at the site of next year’s Invictus Games in Whistler, Canada, the Duke of Sussex was asked about his life in the United States and whether he could apply to become a citizen.
“I have considered it, yeah,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday. Asked what might stop him applying, he said: “I have no idea.”
“It’s a thought that has crossed my mind but it’s not a high priority for me right now,” he added.
Harry was speaking weeks after his father, Britain’s King Charles III, received a cancer diagnosis. The prince said he heard the news from the king himself and then flew straight to London.
“I love my family, the fact I could jump on a plane and see him and spend any time with him — I’m grateful for that,” he said.
Harry would not comment on the king’s condition. “That stays between me and him,” he said.
Charles was diagnosed with a so-far unspecified form of cancer, which was detected by doctors when he went to a private hospital in London for a routine procedure to treat an enlarged prostate.
The news of his illness came eight months after Charles was crowned in Westminster Abbey, following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2022.
Harry has had a famously strained relationship with his father and his elder brother, Prince William, for several years. He flew back to Britain earlier this month to briefly visit the king after his diagnosis, but there have been no reports of a reconciliation with William, the heir to the throne.
Asked whether he found it hard to be away from his family in London, Harry said he would see them as much as he could but added: “I have my own family.”
The royal family was the source of pointed criticism in Harry’s best-selling book, “Spare,” last year.
The British media has long obsessed over Harry’s wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and the couple’s decision to quit as frontline royals and move to the United States. Harry’s determination to tame the tabloid press has left him at odds with his family.
Harry, 39, has been promoting the Invictus Games, which he founded for wounded, injured or sick service personnel and veterans after he served in Afghanistan.
He was in Whistler, British Columbia, to visit the site for next year’s event.
