Weeks after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry stepped down as senior members of the British royal family and moved to Los Angeles, California, it has been revealed that they actually had an “agenda” to do something like this from the very beginning.

Royal reporter Katie Nicholl told Australian outlet 9Honey that while it came as a shock that Harry and Meghan announced earlier this year that they would be leaving the royal family, it was actually their plan from the beginning.

“The speed at which the Sussexes have turned their lives around, has surprised everybody,” Nicholl said. “I don’t think it’s a huge surprise they moved overseas, that was inevitable. I think the speed at which it’s happened has surprised people.”

“They had an agenda from the outset to be international royals,” she continued. “They didn’t want to just be stuck in one place. Part of their vision is to be making a difference on the world stage and that entails being international.”

Harry and Meghan had allegedly been telling friends for years that they could not live in just one place. This has been corroborated by their movements in the past few months, as they have moved from the U.K. to Canada to the U.S. in the first five months of 2020 alone.

“I was told from a very early stage in their courtship, they had told a friend of Harry’s that Meghan met quite early on that they wanted to international roving royals and that was going to be their focus,” Nicholl explained. “So I think this idea that they were going to move away and work overseas was always on the cards but as I say, the speed at which it’s happened has definitely been surprising […] They’ve broken away from the royal family, they’ve moved home twice—first to Canada then to California and all of this before Archie actually turned one.”

It remains unclear if Meghan and Harry will make Los Angeles their permanent home base, but it certainly seems like they plan to be there for awhile. They are currently living in the $18 million mansion of Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry on what seems to be a temporary basis while they look for a mansion of their own in the city where Meghan grew up.