Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘enjoy sunsoaked holiday’ with Archie and Lilibet to ‘celebrate’ their new business success – after Duke admitted rift with his family is ‘deepening’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have whisked their children away on a celebratory Spring holiday. 

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has celebrated her recent business ventures – including her Netflix cookery show, launch of her As Ever products and recent podcast – with a family trip away. 

According to People Magazine, the family has enjoyed a ‘sunsoaked getaway’ with Archie, five, and Lilibet, three – though the exact destination was not confirmed. 

Insiders also told the outlet that the couple’s two children are the ‘centre of their happy bubble’ back at home in Montecito in California. 

‘The kids are adorable. They’re incredibly smart, articulate, and fun,’ the source said. 

Elsewhere in the magazine cover, which hits shelves on April 28, insiders close to Prince Harry said his rift with the Royal Family is deepening – claiming he was left in the dark about his father King Charles‘s cancer battle.

The Duke of Sussex‘s calls to family members including his elder brother Prince William are also ignored, the reports suggested.

People magazine in the US quotes sources close to Harry as describing the ongoing ‘strained’ relationship with his father five years after the Duke and his wife Meghan Markle quit frontline royal duties and moved to California.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have whisked their children away on a celebratory Spring holiday (pictured together previously)

According to People Magazine, the family has enjoyed a ‘sunsoaked getaway’ with Archie, five, and Lilibet, three – though the exact destination was not confirmed.  Harry and Lilibet pictured together previously

The Pro-Sussex magazine has increasingly been given access to the couple over recent months, with Meghan even giving an interview ahead of the launch of With Love, Meghan in March – where she declared she wasn’t ‘an influencer’.  

Palace insiders were also quoted on the estrangement since so-called ‘Megxit’ in 2020 – with the last face-to-face encounter between Charles and Harry being a 30-minute meeting in February last year.

Sources close to the Duke have told of his calls and letters to relatives being left unanswered.

And he is said to have only known his father the King was recently admitted to hospital on March 27 through media reports rather than being told directly.

Harry spent some time in the UK last week, attending a hearing at London‘s High Court in his continuing battle over financing personal protection officers.

His legal team is arguing that he, Meghan and their two children are not safe to come to Britain. 

Meghan has been increasingly showing her children on social media as she launches her various business endeavours.  

However, it has been suggested that Meghan and Harry have different views about sharing their two children on social media. 

Insiders also told the outlet that the couple’s two children are the ‘centre of their happy bubble’ back at home in Montecito in California. Meghan is pictured with Archie and Lilibet

When appearing on the Drew Barrymore Show last month, Meghan revealed she had enlisted the help of her children to make cookies for the show’s crew and audience – and shared a short video clip (here, she is seen with Archie)

On a recent episode of Hello! magazine’s Right Royal podcast, Matt Wilkinson, the royal editor of The Sun, said Harry took a much more cautious approach to posting their children online. 

‘My understanding of this is that, up to a certain stage, Harry would much rather his children were not seen,’ Matt said.

He added: ‘Whereas Meghan grew up in California, she once said she would like to have a more California style lifestyle, take them down the beach, go out, do stuff. She doesn’t want to hide them away.’

He noted that the Duchess does not share her children’s faces in images and videos she posts – something the panel said Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie also do when it comes to images of their children.

For example, one of her posts, shared several days before the launch of her Netflix show, showed Meghan and her three-year-old daughter joined by ‘Auntie’ Serena Williams, with the trio playing a game of Candy Land.

Another video the Duchess shared featured Archie’s voice, as he helped her to water some plants. 

Insiders close to Prince Harry (pictured) say his rift with the Royal Family is deepening

The Duke of Sussex is said to have only learnt his father King Charles (pictured) was hospitalised last month through media reports

Harry (left) and his elder brother William (right) have become estranged in recent years

Elsewhere in the court case, Harry’s barrister claimed the prince, who is believed to have earned $120million from Netflix and Spotify and lives in a $15million Montecito mansion, must have his full taxpayer-funded bodyguards restored when in the UK because his ‘life is at stake’.

His lawyers said, ‘Al Qaeda called for the duke to be murdered’ – saying ‘his assassination would please the Muslim community‘.

The prince says he was ‘singled out’ for ‘inferior treatment’ when the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) stripped him of his top-level security in February 2020 after he moved out of the UK.

But Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Home Office, said it had discretion to strip his guaranteed full time police security without consulting the Risk Management Board quango.

People magazine suggested insiders close to the Duke feel Charles is intentionally staying distant – partly to avoid being embroiled in questions over security.

Prince Harry made a surprise visit to the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Thursday last week

His brother Prince William previous made a trip to a Nato base in Estonia last month

Charles and his sons are seen here during a ski break in Klosters, Switzerland, in March 2005

After last week’s hearing, Harry then left the UK secretly and without informing Buckingham Palace early last Thursday. 

He was then understood to have landed at an unnamed airport in Poland ahead of a surprise visit to Ukraine.

He was given a police escort to and from the Polish border and former Ukrainian military personnel accompanied him to the Superhumans rehabilitation centre in Lviv where he met adults and children who have been injured since war broke out in 2022.

His visit came after William visited a Nato base in Ukraine’s neighbour Estonia last month. 

MailOnline previously contacted Kensington Palace for comment.

Representatives for Prince Harry previously declined to comment.