{"id":2407273,"date":"2026-05-08T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407273"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:03:14","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-dubbed-laughing-stock-by-neighbours-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-dubbed-laughing-stock-by-neighbours-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dubbed \u2018laughing stock\u2019 by neighbours | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since then, they have settled in their luxury mansion<\/a>, where they live with their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. But according to reports, their neighbours have been \u201cpoking fun\u201d at them after not touching the mansion\u2019s \u201coutdated\u201d style.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Chateau of Riven Rock is located within the historic Riven Rock neighbourhood and boasts a French Proven\u00e7al-style.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was built in 2003 and designed by Terry Cunningham on land that was part of the original McCormick family estate in the 1890s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sussexes reportedly paid around \u00a310million to purchase the property in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But according to those who live close to them, they haven\u2019t done much to modernise the property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Journalist Tom Sykes said on his Royalist<\/a> podcast: \u201cI was in New York last week, and I was meeting with somebody who lives fairly near them, and they said to me that the house that they occupy in Montecito is like a sort of laughing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He added: \u201cIt’s kind of shameful because, of course, in America, if you’re a billionaire and you buy a house for $14million, I mean, what’s the first thing you do? Knock it down, you know, or at the very least remodel it, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Sykes said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are allegedly still \u201cpadding around in a kitchen that looks straight out of the Olive Garden\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harry and Meghan’s Montecito luxury abode boasts a total of five acres of land, featuring nine bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a pool and a tennis court, as well as extensive gardens and its own chicken coop, which the couple have named “Archie\u2019s Chick Inn”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It also features a five-car garage, a guesthouse, a spa, a wine cellar, a gym, a library and a tea house, among other luxury amenities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sussex couple have shared rare glimpses of their home in their Netflix<\/a> docuseries, Harry & Meghan, as well as on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since then, they have settled in their luxury mansion, where they live with their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. But according to reports, their neighbours have been \u201cpoking fun\u201d at them after not touching the mansion\u2019s \u201coutdated\u201d style. The Chateau of Riven Rock is located within the historic Riven Rock neighbourhood and boasts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[34927,347532,34928,23067,228266,34911,22730,194353,34906,470555,34904],"class_list":["post-2407273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-latest","tag-prince-harry-latest-news","tag-prince-harry-neighbours","tag-prince-harry-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Prince-Harry-and-Meghan-Markle-dubbed-\u2018laughing-stock-by-neighbours.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407273\/revisions\/2407275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}