Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Five Most Glamorous Holidays

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been photographed returning to America after reports of glamorous getaway in on a Caribbean island.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seen touching down in Atlanta in pictures published by the Daily Mail, seemingly on their way home from a getaway in Canouan in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines—a country that counts his father, King Charles III, as monarch.

This is, however, far from their first glamorous trip abroad with past vacations at the pleasure of celebrity friends like Elton John and George Clooney. Newsweek takes a look at their biggest travel moments below.

Canouan

Harry and Meghan, according to the Mail, jetted to Canouan for some relaxation time after a busy day at the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival in New York, where Carson Daly joined them for a summit on digital technology.

The couple were seen walking hand in hand in the Caribbean sunshine outside a gourmet food store inside the Sandy Lane Yacht Club and Marina in a part of the island called Glossy Bay.

To say the island is glamorous is putting it mildly and was described as where "the billionaires go to get away from the millionaires" by hotelier Patrice Van Isacker, who oversees sales for luxury resorts their including the Pink Sands Club and Raffles, in 2016 interview with Bloomberg.

Even back in 2016, eleven billionaires owned land in Canouan, which is just 483 miles² and has a population 12,000, only slightly more than the 8,000 who live in Harry and Meghan's Montecito community.

Canouan also neighbors Mustique, another island in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where Princess Margaret owned a home and Queen Elizabeth II used to visit her.

Portugal With Princess Eugenie

In September 2023, the couple capped off their visit to Germany for the Invictus Games with a mini-break in Melides, Portugal, around an hour south of the country's capital Lisbon, according to local outlet Nova Gente, which cited confirmation from the Alentejo Tourist Board.

Princess Eugenie, Harry's cousin and a friend of Meghan's before she met the prince, and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, have a home in the area and the Sussexes may well have stopped in for a visit.

Brooksbank reportedly works at CostaTerra Golf & Ocean Club, which describes itself as "the authentic coastal escape you've always wanted."

Its website read: "Languid warm days cooled by fresh sea breezes. The sweet scent of pine as you wake up in the morning.

"Afternoons spent surfing, golfing, horseback riding, or exploring the region's inest vineyards and coastal villages.

"Evenings bring big family dinners under star-filled skies. Dance barefoot on the beach until way past your bedtime."

Nice With Elton John

In 2019, Harry and Meghan jetted to France, to stay with Elton John and his husband David Furnish at their villa in Nice.

Named The Yellow Palace, the private residence on the French Riviera is said to be worth around $18 million and Harry spoke fondly of the trip in his memoir, Spare.

"For a few days we sat on their terrace and soaked up their
sunshine," he wrote. "We spent long healing moments gazing out at the azure sea, and it felt decadent, not just because of the luxurious setting.

"Freedom of any kind, in any measure, had come to feel like scandalous luxury. To be out of the fishbowl for even an afternoon felt like day release from prison.

"One afternoon we took a scooter ride with David, around the local bay, down
the coastal road.

"I was driving, Meg was on the back, and she threw out her arms and shouted for joy as we zoomed through little towns, smelt people's dinners from open windows, waved to children playing in their gardens.

"They all waved back and smiled. They didn't know us. The best part of the visit was watching Elton and David and their two boys fall in love with Archie."

Lake Como With George Clooney

Meghan and Harry took time out of their royal lives in August 2018, months after they got married, to holiday with George and Amal Clooney at their mansion in picturesque Lake Como.

Bestselling biography Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, described how the trip came at a time when the public disintegration of Meghan's relationship with her father was putting pressure on the couple.

"A few months after the drama with her father," the authors wrote, "George Clooney arranged for Harry and Meghan to fly from London to Lake Como on his own private jet.

"In the early evening of August 16, the newlyweds arrived into Milan's airport, and from there were driven in an unmarked motorcade to George and Amal's Villa Oleandra.

"The Clooneys, who had been staying at their twenty-five-room mansion for the past month had already hosted a series of high-profile friends including Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and Stella McCartney and her husband."

Their lifestyle at the time, according to the book, "was pretty wonderful" and "the retreat George purchased in 2002 had an outdoor theater, a swimming pool, and a garage to house the movie star's five vintage motorbikes It also included a tennis court, a full gym, huge bathrooms, and a "pizza parlor" complete with pizza oven.

"The ornately carved ceilings in each room were a talking point alone during the three-day visit, a source said."

Meghan and Amal Clooney relaxed by the pool while Clooney loaned Harry one of his motorcycles to explore the area.

Botswana

Early in Meghan and Harry's relationship, Harry took her to Botswana, a country that was extremely important to him as he spent time there after Princess Diana's death.

They went wildlife spotting, seeing lions, and camped under the stars, with the prince stating in his book Spare that he was impressed at how easily Meghan adapted to the spartan living conditions.

The prince said Meghan had "traveled, but she'd never seen anything like this. This was the world before the world was made."

"As we got further into the bush, as we neared the Okavango, the fauna began
changing," he wrote. "'There! Look! Oh, my God. Is that...giraffes!'

"'And over there, look!' A family of warthogs. We saw a breeding herd of elephants. Dads, mums, babies. 'Hi, guys.'

"We started along a firebreak road and the birds were going nuts, which sent a weird shiver down my spine. Lions in the area. 'No way,' she said.

"Something told me to look back. Sure enough, a flickering tail. I shouted for Mike to stop. He hit the brakes, threw the truck into reverse. There—standing right before us, a big fella. Daddy. And there, four youngsters, lounging under a shady bush. With their mums."

Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.

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