A ROYAL MESS

“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has... he won't speak to me because of this security stuff.” 

This is what Prince Harry told the BBC in a weekend interview after his bid to restore full police protection for him and his family while visiting the United Kingdom.

Harry has been on the outs with the Royal family since he moved to the USA with wife Meghan Markle.  

Dinge are especially bad with King Charles, with the second in line to the throne after his boeta William, only learning about his dad’s cancer diagnosis in February 2024 from media reports.

The prince, 40, said he was "devastated" by Thursday's court judgement, which threw out his bid to restore fully his police protection while visiting Britain.

He told the BBC: “It’s impossible for me to take my family back to the UK safely.

“I miss the UK,” adding: “It’s really quite sad that I won't be able to show... my children my homeland.”

In response to the court decision, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”

Harry was not present for the judgment when Judge Geoffrey Vos dismissed the appeal, saying the duke’s “sense of grievance” had failed to translate into a legal argument.

Harry's security was now a “more bespoke, and generally lesser, level of protection than when he was in the UK”, Vos said.

This, however, did not "of itself give rise to a legal complaint", he added.

Since moving to California, Harry and Meghan have had a second child, Lilibet, born in 2021.

The government committee that handles protection for royals and public figures in 2020 decided he would not receive the same level of publicly funded protection when in Britain as he did previously.

After losing a High Court case challenging the decision, the prince was allowed to launch an appeal against the interior ministry.