A legal representative for Prince Harry said he wants to bring his son Archie and seven-month-old baby daughter Lilibet to visit from their home in California, but fears they will be “unable to return to his home” due to security risks, Sky News reports. It comes after an incident in London in 2021 when his security was compromised after his car was chased by paparazzi photographers as he left a charity event.The Duke of Sussex wants to fund the security himself, rather than ask taxpayers to foot the bill after he stepped down as a senior member of the royal family, but Britain’s Home Office has denied his request. Harry is now arguing his private protection team in the US does not have access to UK intelligence information which is needed to keep his wife, Meghan Markle, and children safe.The legal representative for the Duke said in a statement: “The UK will always be Prince Harry’s home and a country he wants his wife and children to be safe in.“With the lack of police protection, comes too great a personal risk.”The representative said: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex personally fund a private security team for their family, yet that security cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed whilst in the UK.“In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home.”The legal representative added: “Prince Harry inherited a security risk at birth, for life. He remains sixth in line to the throne, served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats.“While his role within the Institution has changed, his profile as a member of the royal family has not. Nor has the threat to him and his family.”
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