Meghan Markle has wild demands for her new UK home 9 bedrooms and a film studio among them
Meghan Markle’s wish list shows she’s not downsizing her US lifestyle for the “English countryside dream.”Markle, 45, touched down in Britain this week with a very specific number in mind: nine.That’s how many bedrooms the Duchess of Sussex is insisting on for the family’s new countryside estate, according to the Daily Mail, and it just so happens to match the exact bedroom count at the $15 million Montecito compound she already owns.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed at Birmingham Airport on Wednesday with Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, arriving by private jet before being driven off in a convoy of blacked-out SUVs.
Rather than moving into a home of their own, the family is currently holed up “indefinitely” in the spare house of a wealthy friend on the edge of the Cotswolds while the real estate hunt plays out.And it’s a hunt with a very specific shopping list.Meghan reportedly wants nine bedrooms and a film studio, while Harry wants “a lot, and I mean a lot, of land, and no footpaths going across it to protect their privacy.”Three separate sources have told the Daily Mail that despite earlier reports of a $16.2 million property being locked in, no deal has actually closed.Money doesn’t appear to be the obstacle.
The couple is reportedly working with a “gargantuan budget,” even as their Hollywood ambitions have cooled and their big-ticket production deals have dried up.Friends insist they’re not selling the Montecito place either, meaning the Sussexes could soon be juggling three properties: the California mansion, an $8.5 million vacation home in Portugal and whatever nine-bedroom trophy house they land in the historic Cotswolds.That math has raised eyebrows across the pond.
A person in the Santa Barbara luxury market told The Post there “have been rumblings” that the couple might quietly offload the Montecito estate, noting “every broker wants that listing.”It’s not hard to see why the pressure is on.The Post found the 7...