While Prince Harry secured a recent win in his fight for U.K. security, one royal expert believes the outcome might not be an overall net positive for the royal’s wife, Meghan Markle.
“This puts Meghan in a rather awkward position, since I really don’t think she is eager to return to what she sees as a somewhat hostile environment,” royal author Christopher Andersen, who wrote the Brothers and Wives, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, January 5.
Mail on Sunday reported one day prior that Harry, 41, had officially won his ongoing fight for government-funded security in the U.K. The decision came after the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) conducted a review of Harry’s risk assessment last month. It appears the committee decided the Duke of Sussex is eligible for armed protection.
Team Sussex has declined to comment on the Mail on Sunday report.
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The years-long legal battle started after the Duke of Sussex and Meghan stepped down from their roles as senior working royals in 2020. Harry previously explained that the lack of protection had stopped him from returning to his home country with Meghan, 44, and their two kids, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4.
“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point,” Harry told the BBC in a May 2025 interview. “I love my country, I always have done, despite what some people in that country have done.”
However, Harry’s landmark win opens the door for them all to return.
“If Harry and Meghan do return to London with Archie and Lilibet, it will be so the children can begin to forge some sort of real relationship with their grandfather, the king,” Andersen continued.
While Harry has been estranged from his family for years, he and King Charles III started the process to mend their relationship with a closed-door meeting in September 2025.
“Charles is a huge softy when it comes to his grandkids, so I’m sure they’d be welcomed with open arms,” Andersen added. “But that doesn’t mean that Harry will ever be fully embraced by the royal family and allowed to return to some sort of semi-official role. That ship has sailed — and that goes double for Meghan.”
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Since stepping down from senior royal duties in January 2020, Prince Harry has found himself in a battle for his family’s protection in the U.K. Upon losing his former public-funded security personnel after moving from England to California, Harry applied for judicial review in January 2022 to fund his family’s own protection during U.K. visits. […]
Harry previously claimed that he was denied a “basic duty of care” by being refused protection during his trips back home, which have mainly been for work purposes.
“It’s true that I have been treated as an exception on this issue,” Harry wrote in a May 2025 statement after losing his appeal for security. “The conditions of my security were not made based on threat, risk, and impact, they were made based on my role — one that my wife and I wanted to maintain, but that was ultimately refused.”
His fight has “only ever been about ensuring my safety and that of my immediate family,” Harry continued at the time, noting that it was a “simple” ask to “safely visit my home country with the same level of security that other governments deem necessary for our protection.”