Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are officially homeowners.
They bought their first home together in Santa Barbara County, California over the summer, a spokeswoman for the couple confirmed to Insider’s Mikhaila Frail.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have moved into their family home in July of this year,” the spokesman said in a statement. “They have established themselves in the quiet privacy of their community since their arrival and hope this will be respected for their neighbors as well as for them as a family.”
Meghan and Harry previously lived in Tyler Perry’s eight-bedroom, 12-bathroom home in Beverly Hills. Santa Barbara, a 90-minute drive northwest of Los Angeles, is one of the wealthiest communities to live in, attracting the rich and famous from both California and nationwide.
But despite its wealth, the community is far more down-to-earth and less flashy than LA. It also offers more privacy.
Here’s what it’s like to live there, and why the wealthy couple chose it as their new home base in the US.
