Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will likely see their relationship with the Royal Family affected after their father’s latest legal defeat, a royal expert has warned.
On Wednesday, Prince Harry lost a High Court challenge against the Home Office over a decision to change the level of his personal security when he visits the UK.
The prince is to seek to appeal against the latest ruling, with his lawyers saying he “hopes he will obtain justice”.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had their security removed when they stepped down as working members of the Royal Family and moved to the US back in 2020.
Harry took legal action over the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) after being told he would no longer be given the “same degree” of publicly-funded protection when in the country.
But in a ruling yesterday, retired High Court judge Sir Peter Lane rejected the duke’s case and concluded Ravec’s approach was not irrational nor procedurally unfair.
Now a royal expert has come out and claimed the latest decision will have major consequences on Archie and Lilibet’s relationship with the Firm.
Tessa Dunlop noted how little King Charles has seen his grandchildren from over the pond and speculated any future reunion now seems “even less likely”.
She told the Mirror: “It is impossible not to feel sad about the prospect of an ill, aged King who is unable to see his grandchildren.
“But sadly, happy family reunions look even less likely in the wake of [yesterday’s] High Court ruling.
“Charles, a loving man, has scarcely so much as glimpsed Archie and Lilibet, and despite warmer relations between father and son, once more the machinations of state affairs have got in the way.
“Harry is not the only royal who will feel distraught about the implications of today’s ruling. It is another reminder that the Windsor family’s domestic lives are governed by very different rules from the rest of us.”
