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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Buy Santa Barbara Home

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are Santa Barbara’s newest residents. A representative for the couple confirmed to People that the royal pair and their young son, Archie, “moved into their family home in July of this year,” adding that “they have settled into the quiet privacy of their community since their arrival and hope that this will be respected for their neighbors, as well as for them as a family.” 

According to Page Six, the Duke and Duchess bought the property earlier this summer, and the purchase marks the first home either of them has ever owned. Following their decision to step down from their senior royal roles at the start of 2020, the couple spent time on Vancouver Island and then stayed briefly at pal Tyler Perry’s sprawling Beverly Hills mansion.

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Details about their new house are not publicly available, which is understandable given Harry and Meghan’s concerns about privacy and security. But a source told Page Six, “They have thought about this carefully and researched it well. This is the place where they plan to be happy, make good friends and bring up Archie, giving him the chance to play with other children his age.” 

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The Duke and Duchess’s new neighbors include Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres, both of whom have owned several properties in the area. Winfrey purchased Jeff Bridges’s Spanish Revival–style compound in nearby Montecito late last year, expanding her ranch, known as Promised Land, to a whopping 70 contiguous acres. DeGeneres, meanwhile, owns a $27 million Balinese-style mansion, also in Montecito.

Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest