UK, no escort for Prince Harry: lost appeal. The prince: 'I want to reconcile with the royal family'
Lawyers had evoked a possible discrimination of the second son of King Charles III and the late Lady Diana against other royals. The negative outcome risks alienating him even further from the rest of the Royal Family after the 2020 rift
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No police escort for rebel Prince Harry. This was confirmed by the Court of Appeal in London, rejecting an appeal against the decision taken at the time by the British Home Office to revoke his and his family's automatic right to police protection during visits to the UK, following the renouncement of his active role as a senior member of the Windsor household.
Lawyers had evoked a possible discrimination of the second son of King Charles III and the late Lady Diana against other royals. The negative outcome risks alienating him even further from the rest of the Royal Family after the 2020 tear.
Harry to BBC: 'I want to reconcile with the royal family'
.Prince Harry said in an interview with the BBC that he wanted a 'reconciliation' with the British royal family after the traumatic tear in 2020. He also said he was 'devastated' after losing his appeal today in the London Court of Appeal against the Home Office's decision to revoke his and his family's automatic right to police protection during visits to the UK.
Buckingham Palace retorts to Harry, defends no escort
Unusual how dry Buckingham Palace's response to Prince Harry's interview, after the British Court of Appeal's verdict upholding the revocation decided in 2020, after the Duke of Sussex tore himself away from the royal family, of his automatic right to an escort.
"All these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by various courts, with the same conclusions on each occasion," the palace cuts to the chase in a note.
