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Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan's UK life look like?

Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan's UK life look like?

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Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan's UK life look like?

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Harry and Meghan's arrival back in Britain is imminent (the couple are seen here on their recent Australia tour)

Within the next few days, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their two children will have departed California and become residents of the UK.

Since news broke of the move, there has been some confusion as to what British life for Harry and Meghan will look like - but a picture is emerging of the family's priorities.

Over the weekend, there was a deluge of stories about Meghan's return to acting with speculation she would have a role in the next series of The Gentlemen on Netflix, created by British director Guy Ritchie.

Talks are still said to be in the early stages and we understand filming for the third series of the show is imminent - but Netflix has made no comment on who will star, leaving the way open for a former working member of the royal family with an acting background to be cast.

The comedy is about a duke turned drug baron and is mostly filmed in the Cotswolds.

What is clear is that a return to acting more broadly is very much on the agenda for Meghan. It would be financially lucrative for the family in a world of expensive homes, school fees and international travel.

Speaking in June last year to British businesswoman and podcaster Emma Grede, Meghan talked about her Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, and hinted at a return to acting when asked if she missed that side to her life.

"Sometimes," Meghan replied. "Being back on set with With Love, Meghan was great because I realised how much I miss my crew. I love being around a crew."

But Variety's chief correspondent Marlow Stern says when it comes to deliberations over a potential acting role for Meghan, "a lot of it has to do with scheduling, to be honest".

"They're maybe also negotiating the size of the role and how many days she'll shoot, and also compensation for it. Both sides often play the media to try and push things along, and we could be seeing that."

For Harry, the focus once back in the UK will be on the charity work and patronages he has kept hold of while living thousands of miles away.

He has now completed his final charity engagements in the US before flying back to the UK in the coming days.

In Washington DC, he met military veterans and their families and visited America's main hospital for injured servicemen and women, Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.

At Arlington National Cemetery, he visited the final resting place of many service personal killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars where he himself served on two operational tours.

At the grave of Sergeant Michael Verardo, who died last year from complications related to injuries sustained in Afghanistan in 2010, he met Verardo's widow Sarah - who now supports other military families - and their nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.

Image source, Lindsay Hart for The Office of The Duke of Sussex Image caption, Prince Harry met widow Sarah and her daughter Elizabeth, 9, at Arlington National Cemetery

"All my daughter knows about princes or princesses is probably contained to a movie... she whispered to me and said, 'Where is his crown? Did he leave it in the car?'" Sarah said.

"She was very dazzled by the ability to meet him and it made it made us find bits of sparkle for her at a young age in a very hard experience - and that means a lot to me personally."

It is a reminder…