{"id":6853,"date":"2026-06-25T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-bringing-own-security-to-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:14:17","slug":"prince-harry-meghan-markle-bringing-own-security-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-bringing-own-security-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, bringing own security to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2Fnewspress-collage-90f0phgt3-1782418185350.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261782403793\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Prince Harry is expected to bring his own security team with <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/17\/royal-family\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-are-bringing-lilibet-archie-to-uk-for-first-time-in-years\/\">his family visits London next month<\/a>, as sources said the renegade royal and wife Meghan Markle are preparing for a \u201chuge spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry \u2014 who pays about <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/13\/royal-family\/breadwinner-meghan-markle-may-take-drastic-action-to-pay-her-prince-harrys-huge-bills\/\">$3 million a year for private security <\/a>in the US \u2014 has yet to be afforded VIP security after battling the British Home Office for 24\/7 armed police escorts, and is in a \u201cholding pattern,\u201d we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n<p>But he has been<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/19\/royal-family\/king-charles-offers-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-an-olive-branch-ahead-of-uk-visit-report\/\"> offered a royal residence <\/a>with private security for his stay with Markle and their kids Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prince Harry, seen with Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie, will bring his own highly paid security team with him and his family to the UK next month. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@meghan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One source in the know said the\u00a0family won\u2019t fly by private jet, but they will have their own bodyguards, adding, \u201cHarry always travels with one of two of his own security team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/08\/royal-family\/prince-harry-hopes-to-bring-meghan-markle-kids-to-uk-in-weeks\/\">The family\u2019s first time back to the UK<\/a> in four years is expected to draw a huge amount of attention.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harry is planning to bring his family to the UK despite the fact his security has not been officially signed off yet. <span class=\"credit\">meghan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Sussexes\u2019 trip has been planned to mark the one-year countdown until the Invictus Games takes place in Birmingham next summer, from July 7-10, and Harry wants to use the time to reunite with his father, King Charles, who has barely seen Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know it will make the biggest spectacle,\u201d said the source of Harry and Markle. \u201cThey will want photos of them being \u2018royal.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the big question is whether the Sussexes, in tandem with Buckingham Palace, will release a photo of Charles with his grandchildren.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harry, seen with Meghan Markle and Lilibet, has said he wanted to reunite with his family. <span class=\"credit\">Meghan, Duchess of Sussex \/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Even though Markle has posted photos of her children \u2014\u00a0including photos of Lilibet in an ad for her As Ever lifestyle range \u2014 she does not show their faces. <span class=\"credit\">Meghan Markle \/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the children have been<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/21\/royal-family\/meghan-markle-promotes-64-candles-via-archie-lilibets-names\/\"> heavily featured on Markle\u2019s Instagram account<\/a> \u2014 and in ads for her lifestyle range, As Ever \u2014 \u00a0they have rarely had their full faces pictured.<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s UK security is a matter for RAVEC, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, which is responsible for deciding the level of security granted to senior royals and other VIPs in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>But the family\u2019s own security are not allowed to carry weapons in the UK; only elite officers are allowed to be armed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harry and Markle, seen at a service of Thanksgiving for the late Queen Elizabeth II in July 2022, have not been back to the UK together in four years. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harry and his team also don\u2019t get MI6 or police intelligence, as sources said that royal and diplomatic protection cops are tapped into the intelligence infrastructure of the state in a way that private security are not.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, when Harry was London\u2019s High Court for his privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, a known stalker, who may be suffering from mental health issues, sat just feet away from him on two separate occasions, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2026\/01\/24\/prince-harrys-stalker-sat-behind-duke-high-court-trial-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The prince\u2019s private security team noticed the stalker in court, but did not have have the right to intervene.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Even though Harry is estranged from his older brother, Prince William, he is expecting to see his father. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing they could do; they are not the police. It\u2019s a public building, and she has a right to be there,\u201d an insider said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Clive Alderton, King Charles\u2019 Principal Private Secretary \u2014 and the most senior aide at Buckingham Palace \u2014 is one of eight on the panel who holds Harry\u2019s security in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Harry has long argued that his father could step in and override any decision made by RAVEC, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/02\/royal-family\/prince-harry-makes-heartbreaking-declaration-about-his-kids-after-losing-uk-security-battle-really-quite-sad\/\">telling the BBC last year, <\/a>\u201cThere is a lot of control and ability in my father\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, this whole thing could be resolved through him. Not necessarily by intervening, but by stepping aside, allowing the experts to do what is necessary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point \u2026 And I think that it\u2019s really quite sad that I won\u2019t be able to show, you know, my children my homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The brothers have not spoken in years and last saw each other at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022. <span class=\"credit\">POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, he was granted a risk-management board to review his security status. Now RAVEC is set to advise an independent chair to weigh in on whether Harry should be entitled to armed guards.<\/p>\n<p>And while Markle, 44, took the opportunity to publicize her As Ever brand while on <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/10\/royal-family\/prince-harry-meghan-markles-tour-poised-to-annoy-palace-sources\/\">an April trip to Australia,<\/a> including partnering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/16\/style\/meghan-markle-joins-ai-fashion-platform-oneoff-and-you-can-shop-her-australia-tour-outfits\/\">AI fashion platform OneOff, <\/a>we\u2019re told she has no plans to hold any work meetings while in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A Sussex rep declined to discuss security issues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/25\/royal-family\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-bringing-own-security-to-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry is expected to bring his own security team with his family visits London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/newspress-collage-90f0phgt3-1782418185350.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}