Sources say the offer helped shape the couple’s timing to move back to Britain with Archie and Princess Lilibet. The family are due back in the U.K. this month, with the children starting school next month; King Charles was informed on Aug. 16 and reportedly welcomed seeing more of them privately.
Separately, Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled that Harry and six others failed to prove illegal information gathering by Associated Newspapers Limited; an interim indemnity payment of $13 million was ordered by Aug. 28, with the final figure still to be determined.