Six years after stepping back from royal life, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle received a formal letter from King Charles III reaffirming their status as private citizens — a quiet but pointed act of institutional boundary-setting that arrived just as their return to the United Kingdom had begun to stir questions about their place within the monarchy. The palace's clarification, however measured in its language, was received by those close to the couple as something closer to a rebuke, revealing how little the underlying tensions have eased since 2020. In the long story of families, power, and