Time.news – There is another reason for embarrassment for Queen Elizabeth II, already struggling with the unfortunate events of Prince Andrew: another reason for embarrassment always created by her family, the Royal Family. Prince Harry wants to sue government who denied him police bodyguards when in the UK. Harry wants to bring his son Archie and little Lilibet on a visit to his homeland, perhaps for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of his grandmother, the queen, in June, but claims that he and his family “cannot go home” because it is too dangerous, a lawyer said.
The prince’s request follows an incident in London last summer when his car was chased by photographers while leaving a charity event.
Prince Harry wants a judicial review refusal by the Home Office to allow him to personally pay for police protection when in the UK. The duke – who has lived in the US with his wife Meghan since 2019 and who no longer has bodyguards, paid with taxpayers’ money since, in 2020, he removed from the duties connected to his position – claims that the men of the his private security does not enjoy adequate jurisdiction when overseas. The prince assures that he wants to take his family to visit his native country, but that he must “guarantee” their safety.
The couple has been paying for their safety personally since then, after moving to the US, then President Donald Trump made it known that he would not pay a dollar for their protection. However, the Sussexes have signed millionaire deals with Netflix and Spotify and the duke told Oprah Winfrey that, in the contracts, there are also clauses relating to their safety. The Dukes of Sussex therefore personally finance the protection of their family, which however cannot replicate the organization guaranteed by the police in the United Kingdom; and in the absence of such protection, the prince now says, his family cannot go home.
Harry is keen to point out that he wants to finance his stock himself, without requiring taxpayers to pay the bill; but argues that its private bodyguards, in addition to not having adequate jurisdiction, could not have access to intelligence information. “The UK will always be Prince Harry’s home and a country where he wants his wife and children to be safe,” said a legal representative of the Duke.
“But the lack of police protection carries too great a personal risk.” Moreover, it is understandable that the family wants to return to the United Kingdom, precisely because of the events organized for the 70 years of the reign of Elizabeth II. Lilibet, the second child of the prince and Meghan, at seven months he still hasn’t met his great-grandmother, the queen, nor the grandfather, the Prince of Wales and the other members of the family. As for Meghan, she hasn’t returned to the UK since March 2020.
Unlike the duke, who made a brief visit last July for the inauguration of the memorial statue of his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, in the public park of Kensington Palace.
But on that very occasion, Harry – after meeting some seriously ill children and young people at a garden party and afternoon tea in Kew Gardens – was chased by the paparazzi as he left. And for the prince – that he lost his mother in the dramatic accident in the Alma Tunnel, in Paris in 1997, just as she was being chased by the paparazzi – this was just too much.
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