Harry and Meghan buy a holiday home in EUROPE after Charles asked them to give up their British base Frogmore Cottage: RICHARD EDEN EXCLUSIVE

When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were evicted from their cottage astatine Windsor by King Charles, they were near without a location successful this country.

The California-based mates have, however, ensured that they clasp a foothold connected this broadside of the Atlantic.

The Daily Mail understands that Prince Harry and Meghan person bought a location successful Portugal.

They are not the lone royals who person a Portuguese property, with Harry's relative Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, owning a location successful the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club, a luxury improvement of 300 properties by the oversea successful Melides, southbound of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

Mr Brooksbank, 38, works successful selling and income for CostaTerra. He, Eugenie, 34, and their 2 sons, August, three, and Ernest, 16 months, divided their clip betwixt Portugal and London.

The acquisition of the location successful Portugal whitethorn person allowed the Sussexes to get a alleged Golden Visa, nether which they would person visa-free entree to the European Union's Schengen area.

This could person been a large attraction to Meghan, who is simply a US citizen. When the mates got engaged successful November 2017, Kensington Palace said Meghan would apply for British citizenship successful owed course, with a spokesperson confirming that 'she volition spell done the process [which] takes a fig of years'.

However, she yet abandoned her bid to go a British national aft she and her hubby left the state successful March 2020, little than 2 years aft their wedding.

A spokesperson for the Sussexes confirmed successful January past twelvemonth that they had been asked by the King to springiness up their British home, Frogmore Cottage.

The five-bedroom spot successful the grounds of Windsor Castle was offered to Prince Andrew, the King's brother, who rejected a determination from the overmuch larger Royal Lodge elsewhere astatine Windsor.

The King's determination followed the work of Harry's highly arguable memoir, Spare, successful which helium criticised members of the Royal Family including his stepmother, Queen Camilla, and his member and sister-in-law, the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Frogmore Cottage was given to the Sussexes by the precocious Queen Elizabeth II successful 2018, soon aft the mates were joined astatine St George's Chapel, Windsor. Officially, however, the Crown Estate owns the property.

Harry and Meghan carried retired immoderate £2million worthy of taxpayer-funded renovations, though they subsequently repaid the cost successful afloat done a publication to the Sovereign Grant.

After Harry and Meghan moved to North America and discontinue royal duties successful 2020, Frogmore Cottage was leased to Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank until 2022.

The Sussexes are known to beryllium adjacent to Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank, who featured successful their 2022 Netflix 'docu-series' Harry & Meghan.

Last year, it was reported that the Sussexes enjoyed a 'romantic three-night break' successful Portugal aft attending the Invictus Games successful Germany.

The mates are said to person flown from Dusseldorf to Lisbon earlier travelling an hr southbound to Melides successful a 'mega-secret' operation.

A root adjacent to the Sussexes confirmed that they had been to Portugal. At the time, it was thought that they stayed with Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank, who person visited them astatine their location successful Montecito, California.

Jose Santos, caput of the Alentejo Tourism Board, confirmed that the Sussexes had enjoyed a 'short stay' astatine the CostaTerra.

'We person nary thought however galore radical linked to cinema, royalty, arts, plan and manner sojourn us, precisely due to the fact that they worth discreet travel, which is thing they find successful Alentejo similar obscurity other successful Europe,' helium said.

CostaTerra Golf is owned by a institution founded by Mike Meldman, 1 of George Clooney's concern partners successful tequila steadfast Casamigos.

Mr Brooksbank antecedently worked arsenic a marque ambassador for Casamigos.

The Sussexes' main location is simply a £19.5 cardinal Tuscan-style mansion successful Montecito with 7 bedrooms, 13 and a fractional bathrooms, library, cinema, gym, excavation and chickenhearted coop.

A spokesperson for the Sussexes was contacted for comment.