Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, resigned as a senior member of the royal family in early 2020 and moved to California with his wife, Meghan and eldest son Archie, and Harry has only returned to the UK alone twice, much to the chagrin of many royal fans over the elderly Queen Elizabeth II's inability to meet her great-grandchildren and great-granddaughter.
Earlier this year, Harry made public his reasons for not returning to The UK with his children, claiming that due to his natural status as a prince, he and his family were under security threats whether or not he resigned, so Harry asked the UK to return his "protected privileges" to ensure that he could return to the UK safely with his children.
With the request dismissed three times, Harry formally filed a lawsuit with the Home Office through legal channels, and his lawyer's representative, Shahid Fatima, informed Judge Swift after the case began that he believed the "protected privilege" still applied to him and his family due to the fact that Prince Harry felt insecure when he returned to the UK in June 2021.
During this period, Mr. Shahid made it clear that Prince Harry wanted to take his eldest son Archie and daughter Lilybert back to England to meet his family and friends, and stressed that the United Kingdom owned the home of Prince Harry and two children, as a way to imply that Harry's "reasonable request" was only to take the children home, trying to obtain the approval of the judge and the support of the outside world from humanitarianism.
There are several "antics" in the documents filed by Harry's team of lawyers, such as their emphasis that Harry Meghan's personal bodyguards hired in the United States cannot provide them with the same level of protection in the UK, which does not allow them to "hang out on the streets with weapons", and claiming that other young members of the royal family have no way to live a normal life without the protection of armed bodyguards, as a way to imply that their request for protection for their children is "reasonable".
Let's take the children of the Dukes and Princesses of Cambridge, who are most familiar with them, since the birth of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, it has been found more than once that William Kate took them out without bodyguards, including eating together in country restaurants, shopping in the mall, etc., in fact, they did not carry security personnel except for very formal events.
Remember, as a direct heir family, William's family is much more important than Harrieghan, who has resigned.
This corresponds to what royal insiders had said when they had previously refuted Prince Harry's request, when insiders said that royal incumbents were only protected when attending important events, and prince Harry's proposal to have official personnel provide security services for his family 24 hours a day was simply unreasonable, although they offered to pay for it themselves, but this was beyond the prerogatives of the core members of the royal family and even the queen, because it meant that they could directly transfer official personnel.
According to British media reports, the Home Office was very clear about this, they refused to make any concessions in the legal struggle launched by Harry, and one staff member made it clear in an interview: "When Prince Harry left the royal family, there was a very nuanced ridicule in his withdrawal agreement, and like other members of the public, no matter how much he and his wife were willing to pay, they had no right to hire official armed personnel to provide them with protection." ”
In the eyes of everyone, Prince Harry is unlikely to win the case, and the outside public does not think that he really asked for the privilege to take the children home, because his father, Prince Charles, had proposed a plan to ensure the safe return of Archie and Lilybert, but Harry did not adopt it, and it is clear that the prince's "naïveté and irrationality" became more and more obvious after leaving the royal family.