{"id":334056,"date":"2025-08-10T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334056\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:56:09","slug":"queen-elizabeth-gives-verdict-on-security-for-harry-meghan-in-secret-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334056\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth gives verdict on security for Harry, Meghan in secret letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1334678_1358857_HarryMeghan_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth advocates for the Sussexs security in an unearthed letter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth advocates for the Sussex&#8217;s security in an unearthed letter<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth revealed her true feelings about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a letter following their resignation from royal duties. <\/p>\n<p>An unearthed royal letter has revealed Queen Elizabeth II believed it was \u201cimperative\u201d that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex continued to have \u201ceffective security\u201d after leaving their royal roles in 2020, per Express. <\/p>\n<p>The note, written by her private secretary Sir Edward Young to UK cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, followed the now-famous Sandringham Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will understand well that ensuring that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex remain safe is of paramount importance to Her Majesty and her family,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p> It cited Harry\u2019s royal profile, his military service, Meghan\u2019s own public standing, and \u201cthe well-documented history of targeting of the Sussex family by extremists\u201d as reasons for ongoing protection.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Edward noted that while RAVEC would make the final call independently, the Queen was clear that adequate protection mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Harry has long argued that reduced security is why Meghan and their children haven\u2019t returned to the UK since 2022. <\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that his protection should be decided on a case-by-case basis Harry later told BBC America that the decision left him \u201cdevastated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The couple now live in Montecito, California, with their children Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth advocates for the Sussex&#8217;s security in an unearthed letter Queen Elizabeth revealed her true feelings about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-334056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006471656717316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}