Harry and Meghan have been absent at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial provider on Tuesday twenty ninth March, which had onlookers wondering why.
The Duke of Sussex's spokesperson demonstrated in the past this month he would not be returning to the UK for the provider for his late grandfather, who died on 9 April 2021 at Windsor Castle at the age of 99.
The spokesperson delivered that Harry hopes to go to the Queen as soon as possible.
The closing time Harry got here to the UK used to be in July 2021, for the unveiling of Princess Diana's memorial statue alongside Prince William.
Harry's absence induced upset amongst some, consisting of TV presenter Piers Morgan.
"Imagine lacking your mentor grandfather’s memorial provider because you’re such a spoiled brat you’d as a substitute sulk in your Californian mansion than be there to guide your grandmother? Shameful" tweeted Morgan.
Others shared their opinions on the be counted live from Westminster. "Prince Harry does nothing however sit there feeding his chickens in California, he have to get on a airplane and pay his respects to his grandfather," a royal photographer advised Sky News.
Philip's former safety officer of 14 years Richard Griffin additionally instructed Sky News it was once a "big disappointment for everybody" that Harry didn't attend the service, who brushed aside their stated security worries as a "pathetic excuse".
Many different senior royals gathered at the memorial service, consisting of the Queen herself.
Prince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, six, even joined their great-grandmother and their mother and father the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the one-of-a-kind day.
While a precise cause used to be not given for Harry's absence, he has pursued a prison project towards the Home Office after being told he would no longer be given the "same degree" of private protective security when traveling from the US, despite offering to pay it himself.
This comes after he and Meghan stepped down as senior working royals in 2020.
The pair, who married in March 2018, presently live in California with their two children: Archie, two and Lilibet, 9 months.
A criminal consultant for Harry formerly stated the duke does choose to come domestic to the UK with his family, but fears it ought to be too dangerous, an comprehensible subject to have for his family.
The announcement read: "Prince Harry inherited a protection threat at birth, for life. He remains sixth in line to the throne, served two excursions of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in current years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats.
"While his role within the institution has changed, his profile as a member of the Royal Family has not. Nor has the threat to him and his family.
"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in my view fund a personal security group for their family, but that protection can't replicate the critical police protection wished at the same time as in the UK. In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home.
"The Duke first offered to pay individually for UK police protection for himself and his household in January of 2020 at Sandringham. That offer was dismissed. He remains willing to cowl the price of security, as now not to impose on the British taxpayer."
The consultant added, "The UK will always be Prince Harry's domestic and a usa he wishes his wife and kids to be protected in. With the lack of police protection, comes too extraordinary a private risk."
However, Robert Palmer QC, for the Home Office, until now advised the court docket Harry's provide of non-public funding used to be "irrelevant".
In written submissions, he said, “Personal protecting safety through the police is now not accessible on a privately financed basis, and Ravec [Royal and VIP Executive Committee] does no longer make decisions on the provision of such security on the groundwork that any economic contribution may want to be sought or bought to pay for it.”
The selection for Harry no longer to attend used to be now not well received in the past, in accordance to royal reporter Rebecca English, who spoke on Palace Confidential for Mail+.
"Within a couple of minutes of saying that he would not be attending the Duke of Edinburgh's carrier of thanksgiving, Harry’s crew additionally announced that he would be attending the Invictus Games in the Hague in April, just a few weeks later,’ she instructed the programme.
"This has needless to say surprised a lot of people… to journey to Europe to go to that, however now not to his grandfather’s memorial service has, to use a well-worn phrase, received people’s goat.
"They experience it is a slap in the face to the Queen and, again, another PR disaster as some distance as many humans in the UK are concerned."
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