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\u00a0<\/p>\nA year after he and his wife Meghan announced they were stepping down from royal duties, Prince Harry said the shock move had been driven in part by the actions of a “toxic” British press which was destroying his mental health.<\/p>\n
“I did what any father or husband would do and thought, how do I get my family out of here,” he said in a 2021 interview on “The Late Late Show with James Corden”.<\/p>\n
Six years after that decision to move to the U.S., which sent shockwaves through the monarchy, Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, will this month\u00a0return to Britain\u00a0where they will send their children to school.<\/p>\n
And that will mean returning to the media scrutiny that they had desperately sought to leave behind.<\/p>\n
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How they deal with the media is just one of many as yet unanswered questions arising from the couple’s volte-face on living in Britain.<\/p>\n
Harry fought and lost a lengthy court battle with the British government over his security arrangements, after a specialist body decided in February 2020 that Harry would not automatically receive personal police protection.<\/p>\n
He said the decision was devastating and could mean his family would not be able to safely return to Britain.<\/p>\n
Who will now pay for his security and at what level of protection remain unknown.<\/p>\n
“This is a private matter,” Prime Minister Andy\u00a0Burnham\u00a0said when asked if the government would pay.<\/p>\n
“It’s a matter for Harry and for Meghan, and we wish them well in the moves that they are making.”<\/p>\n
Family rift<\/p>\n
Possibly the biggest issue for the couple will be how they deal with lingering and deep resentment felt not just within the institution of the monarchy but by other members of the royal family, especially Harry’s elder brother Prince William.<\/p>\n
The brothers, once very close, now barely communicate, following personal criticism levelled at William and his wife Kate. Harry even wrote in his memoir “Spare” that William had knocked him to the floor during an argument over Meghan, breaking a dog bowl in the process.<\/p>\n
The ex-royal aide said the senior royals were not fans of Meghan, due to the level of drama that had arisen since she met Harry. While it was hard to gauge what his elder brother would think, given the lack of reconciliation between the siblings, the aide expected William and Kate and their advisers to be apprehensive.<\/p>\n
Buckingham Palace declined to comment about the family’s return to Britain. But media reports said the king welcomed being able to see more of his youngest son and his family.<\/p>\n
The former aide said for a true rapprochement to take place in the family there would have to be a lot of trust restored with apologies from Harry and Meghan, who have likewise said the royals need to say sorry to them.<\/p>\n
“The family’s got to break bread and make peace, and that is hard to see in the short term,” the ex-royal official said.<\/p>\n
With Reuters<\/p>\n
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