Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lost their top-level publicly sponsored police protection in the United Kingdom when they permanently quit their royal duties and relocated to the United States two years ago.
Prince Harry’s legal team is now appealing the judgment, requesting a judicial ruling. Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have been living in California since their separation from the royal family was made public.
Prince Harry And His Family Cannot Return To The UK
Now Prince Harry wants to send his two children with Meghan Markle, Archie and Lilibet, to the United Kingdom so they can “get to know his homeland,” but his legal representative showed concerns that it would be too dangerous without the police protection that’s required.
Prince Harry In Legal Fight With UK Over Right To Pay For Police Protection
Lilibet Diana, the Duke’s daughter, was born in June and has not yet met her great-grandmother, the queen, and other royal family members. “The U.K. will always be Prince Harry’s home and a country he wants his wife and children to be safe in,” the statement said. “With the lack of police protection, comes too great a personal risk.”
Therefore, Prince Harry is pursuing a court review of the Home Office’s rejection to allow him to pay for his own police security while in the UK.
Harry intended to pay for his own police security rather than have the Public purse foot the bill, according to the statement, but he couldn’t unless the Home Office agreed. During a recent visit to the United Kingdom to present a statue in honor of his late mother, Princess Diana, Harry’s security was compromised owing to the lack of police protection, according to the same statement from the legal representative.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex personally fund a private security team for their family, yet that security cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed whilst in the U.K.,” the statement continued. “In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home,” it read.
Prince Harry, who is Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson, “inherited a security risk at birth,” and his family has been subjected to “well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats” in recent years, Other British leaders who have left public service and have intrinsic danger concerns receive free police protection, according to the statement. According to the spokesman, Harry made the decision to make the information public due to a leak in the British tabloid media.
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