Overview
- Prince Harry will fly to London alone on Monday for Invictus Games and charity engagements after the Sussex family altered their plans.
- Meghan Markle and the couple’s children will not join the London leg because a formal request for taxpayer-funded police protection was refused by RAVEC and the Home Office.
- The Royal Household and Harry’s team have issued conflicting accounts about Buckingham Palace accommodation, with palace sources saying Harry missed a deadline and his team saying an accepted offer was later withdrawn.
- Harry’s team says the duke arranged alternative private security after the refusal, while the broader security dispute traces to his 2020 step back from royal duties and a failed court bid to restore automatic UK police protection.
- The visit is complicated by an imminent High Court judgment in Harry’s privacy case against Associated Newspapers, and the Sussexes have not ruled out Meghan and the children joining later in the trip under private protection.