Overview
- Prince Harry will make a solo trip to the UK this week to carry out Invictus-related and charity engagements while Meghan and their children do not join the London leg.
- Buckingham Palace says an offer of royal accommodation is no longer available because Harry missed the deadline to accept; Harry’s team says he accepted after arranging alternative security and calls the withdrawal “disappointing.”
- Meghan and the children stayed away from the London visit because RAVEC and the Home Office have not agreed to provide state-funded protective policing for the family, a long-running dispute since 2020.
- The visit is framed around the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games Birmingham 2027 and may include other UK stops where the family’s participation has not been ruled out.
- The controversy is set against recent legal background: Harry lost a challenge last year to restore automatic state protection and faces an imminent High Court ruling in his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, a factor palace sources cite in their caution.