
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are being quietly avoided by some neighbours in Montecito, California, according to claims aired this week by US royal commentator Kinsey Schofield, who said the couple's local standing has soured in the enclave they have called home since 2020.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to Montecito five years ago and now live in a multi million-pound home with their children, six-year-old Prince Archie and four-year-old Princess Lilibet, with no reported plans to leave. Yet the latest account of life around them is sharply divided, with one telling painting them as socially frozen out and another insisting their relationship with the community remains strong.