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It seems that most of Prince Harry’s life as a married man has been spent in a feud with the rest of his family: in courtrooms, in interview chairs, in memoirs, in a Netflix docu-series. While things calmed down a bit after the initial shock of his departure , his recent loss in his lawsuit against the UK government seems to have sparked a new desire to call out their supposed wrong-doings.
In the aftermath of the security case, he revealed that there was a “secretive committee” that decided back in 2017 that Meghan wouldn’t be getting any security protection , that is, until Prince Harry got involved. Keep reading for more information.
When Harry and Meghan left the United Kingdom for the United States, they did so thinking they had a team of security following them. However, just one month into the Californication of the monarchy, that security team was gone. And the government committee responsible for state-funded security, RAVEC, has held fast ever since.
In the years since, Harry has been fighting back, even going as far as to truly believe that the removal of security for his family was a deliberate tactic of control and one of the main reasons for their years-long feud . Harry has since admitted that this realization “was difficult to swallow.”
In late April, Prince Harry spent two days at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, closely following the proceedings of his appeal about the removal of his automatic state-backed security for him and his wife in 2020. His team argued that RAVEC had “diverted” from its standard procedure and left Harry and Meaghan “singled out for different, unjustified, and inferior treatment. ”
While what happened inside that courtroom hasn’t been shared publicly yet, Prince Harry said to People that his “worst fears have been confirmed by the whole legal disclosure in this case—and that’s really sad.”
“People would be shocked by what’s being held back,” Harry added, speaking of the information not being released to the public.
One of these tidbits being held back was revealed in early May. Harry said in a statement that the issue of their security has been a thing since before he and Meghan got married. When it was decided that the actress would officially be joining the royal family after their marriage, a “secretive committee” decided that she wouldn’t not be offered protection, Prince Harry revealed.
When Harry heard of this decision, he immediately got involved and was able to have the decision reversed. Yet, now 7 years later, it doesn’t seem to have made a difference, as Harry is back in the same position he was before, but this time, he is far from on good terms with the royal family .