Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are famous for keeping tight lipped. Which made the interview with Oprah that much more explosive. It’s also now being revealed a man was arrested after intruding on their Montecito property twice late last year.
via: Page Six
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quietly dealt with an intruder trespassing on their Montecito, California property over the holidays, legitimizing their intense concerns over lack of security following their Megxit move to the states.
According to TMZ, police have confirmed a 37-year-old man named Nickolas Brooks was caught on Christmas Eve trespassing on the lavish property where the Duke, Duchess and their infant son, Archie, live.
Fortunately, he was spotted and escorted off the property, but only given a warning by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s officers not to return.
Two days later, the hardheaded perp did just that, resulting in his arrest. Brooks currently faces one count of misdemeanor trespassing.
In August, Harry and Meghan purchased the Santa Barbara home for $14.5 million in the prestigious Montecito neighborhood. The couple made the move after their stay in Vancouver at the start of the pandemic, when their whereabouts were released to the public and they were stripped of security.
“Suddenly it dawned on me, ‘Hang on, the borders could be closed. The world knows where we are. It’s not safe, it’s not secure, we probably need to get out of here,’” Harry, 36, recalled to Oprah Winfrey during the couple’s bombshell interview Sunday.
Before finding their own place, the couple bunked with Tyler Perry in his $18M Beverly Hills mansion, where he also provided the family of three with a security detail.
Harry also revealed during the couple’s sit-down with Winfrey that his inheritance from mother, Princess Diana, has been supporting his family after being cut off by the royals financially.
This bit of information coming out after the interview kind of explains why the two talked so much about wanting to feel safe and why security was so important to them.
