Prince Harry to journey solo to London amid safety flap

Prince Harry won’t be accompanied by his spouse Meghan and their two kids when he visits London as a part of a visit to the U.Okay. subsequent week, a supply near him advised AFP Saturday.

The prince had beforehand been anticipated to make his first household journey again to the U.Okay. in 4 years, however the supply near the Duke of Sussex mentioned his spouse, son Archie and daughter Lilibet wouldn’t accompany him on the London a part of the journey.

Arrangements for the remainder of the journey are nonetheless into consideration, the supply mentioned, leaving it unclear whether or not the entire household would go to however keep outdoors the capital.

Harry, 41, is visiting subsequent week to mark the one-year countdown towards subsequent 12 months’s Invictus Games, launched by the prince in 2014 for wounded veterans. The video games shall be held from July 10 to 17, 2027.

The prince was additionally anticipated to attend engagements together with his different charities through the multiday go to this month.

Harry and his household had been at present in Europe and had been nonetheless hoping to make the journey to the U.Okay. “in some form,” The Sun newspaper reported Saturday.

The tabloid reported, citing a supply, that Harry and Meghan had deliberate to go to a London hospital collectively in her first such engagement since leaving the U.Okay., however he would now go alone “for security reasons.”

A supply near the prince mentioned final month that he and his household would keep at royal residences, and CBS News associate BBC reported they’d be friends of King Charles III.

Last 12 months, Harry expressed issues about his household’s security within the U.Okay., after shedding a court docket case to have full police safety restored throughout U.Okay. visits.

“It’s impossible for me to take my family back to the U.K. safely,” he advised the BBC then.

While the safety preparations for July’s go to remained unclear, the BBC reported Buckingham Palace had not supplied any additional safety for the journey.

Harry and Meghan left Britain for North America in 2020 and stepped again from royal duties amid a bitter feud with the household, which worsened within the following years as Harry printed his tell-all memoir “Spare” and was embroiled in authorized battles within the U.Okay.

The king’s youthful son has mentioned he want to reconcile together with his father, however it’s unclear whether or not the 2 will meet through the go to.

He is final believed to have briefly met together with his 77-year-old father, who’s being handled for an undisclosed most cancers, on the king’s Clarence House residence in London in September 2025.

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