Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Won't Be Heading Home Just Yet

glamour.com:

when news that his grandmother, on September 8. After her death, he and have made the decision to postpone their trip home to Montecito, California.

The couple had been scheduled to attend the WellChild Awards in London, so they were already in Europe when the queen died, and reports that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to remain on the other side of the pond for the time being.

There have been no official reports on what Harry and Meghan will be doing in the UK, but it's fair to assume it has something to do with Operation London Bridge—the carefully organized plan of action for what happens after the queen's death that has been in place for years, according to the . "From the moment the queen became monarch, Whitehall started the planning process about what would happen when she died,” Philip Murphy, a professor of British and Commonwealth history at the University of London told the Times.

This official procedure includes instructions on how the news was to be released to the public, and 10 days of official public mourning that will end after her funeral—which is to be a public holiday.