LONDON, Aug. 21 -- The two children whose arrival scrambled the British tabloid industry have school places booked for September. That single, concrete detail cuts through everything else in a situation that still moves at the tempo of royal ambiguity: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, are returning to the United Kingdom later this month, after more than six years in California.

Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, will begin at a British school when term opens in September. Their parents will settle at a private, non-royal residence outside London, ending what began in January 2020 as a managed retreat from royal life and became, in the years that followed, something considerably less managed. Anadolu Agency confirmed the ...