Six years after stepping back from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have received a definitive answer to the question their return to Britain quietly posed: King Charles III has confirmed they will remain non-working royals, holding their titles but carrying no formal obligations to the Crown. The clarification arrives as the couple establishes a new residence in the United Kingdom, and just ahead of a security review whose scope will be shaped, in part, by this very designation. In the long arc of modern monarchy's negotiation with individual freedom, this moment marks a door form