We thought she was flourishing in her magnificent Mediterranean-style villa, located on the heights of Montecito… And yet, Meghan Markle would already want to move, if we are to believe the information from the magazine Paris Match and its edition of January 13, 2022. While explaining the multiple reasons which would push the Sussexes to leave, after only 18 months on the spot, our colleagues mention the small nickname that the duchess gives to her “noble” residence.
Most certainly advised in their search by their friend Oprah Winfrey, a famous neighbor, the couple settled in July 2020 on the Riven Rock estate, which they bought from the maligned Russian oligarch Serguey Grishin, for 14.6 million dollars. . Prince Harry financed part of it thanks to the inheritance of his mother Diana and a loan was taken out in the name of Meghan Markle. With their son Archie (2 years old), the Sussexes therefore took up residence in a comfortable villa of “25 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms“, which also counts “a spa, a swimming pool, a wine cellar and a 3 hectare park“, as our colleagues point out.
Manor, villa, refuge, house… So many names that could describe the Sussex home, but the 40-year-old former actress has chosen a particular one, since she calls it “his castle” and insists on a pronunciation in French. A fantasy that is surprising, until we discover his future real estate projects…
Less than two years after settling in Riven Rock, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly already planning to move nearby,”at the other end of their street” : to Montecito Castle, “fake Versailles, in impeccable bad taste“, report our colleagues. The Sussexes may be hoping to escape the threat of mudslides that weighs on the sector, but not only. Coyotes eating poodles or bears would prowl in this very wooded area. Not sure, however. that the parents of Archie and Lilibet (7 months) escape the “scents from cultivated cannabis fields 3 kilometers away“, which the Duchess would find”nauseating“…