The Sussexes tried to find a way to serve the Queen while also leaving London, so they could distance themselves from the Royal Rot. "The pack of the royal rota is based there in London, so if we're not there, they can't cover what we're doing. You guys can be on the front page of all the papers, and you can have it exactly the way you want it, and we can just go on doing the work in the name of the Queen," Meghan says. The royals considered places like Canada, New Zealand, and then briefly landed on South Africa.
Unfortunately, the plan to move to South Africa was leaked to "The Times," and thus was immediately scrapped. "It's now become a public debate," Harry shares. "Once plans like that become public debates, nine times out of ten, it's going to fail."
The couple and the Palace then came to a decision they would move to Canada, so Charles asked Harry to put the plan in writing despite Harry's concerns it would be leaked to the press. Sure enough, the email — in which Harry noted that "if this wasn't going to work out, then we would be willing to relinquish our Sussex titles if need be" — was leaked to the press.
"It became clear the institution leaked the fact that we were going to be moving back to Canada, and the key piece of that story that made me aware that the contents of the letter between me and my father had leaked is that we were willing to relinquish our Sussex titles," Harry says. "That was the giveaway."
