Meghan Markle’s potential return to the UK would have to be carefully curated and monitored if Prince Harry’s security request gets approved, according to royal commentator Jennie Bond. The Duke of Sussex has reportedly won his battle for armed police protection when he is in the UK , after asking Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood for a review in September.
Sources close to the Home Office claim the security detail will now be granted. Harry had previously stated it was “impossible” to bring the Duchess of Sussex and his two children to the UK without a security detail, but with that set to change, questions surrounding Meghan’s return to the UK have been raised.
The Duchess of Sussex has not visited the UK since the late Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in 2022, and former BBC royal commentator Jennie Bond has claimed any return for Meghan “would need to be carefully curated and monitored.”
Bond suggests Meghan may face verbal backlash in UK
Bond added: “She may not be in the same physical danger, but she’s more likely to be the target of a verbal backlash than Harry. If I were her, I’d give the UK a miss. She’s clearly happy at home in California. Why wouldn’t she be?”
“She’s wealthy, she has a husband who adores her and children she loves. Why court hostility over here? Harry and the kids can pop over and see Grandpa. Archie and Lilibet can take a peek inside the Palace walls their ancestors have inhabited. And then they can all head back to the sunshine.”
Bond went on to say: “I think most people would be glad to see our old King reunited with the son he called his ‘darling boy’ and with the grandchildren he barely knows. I am less convinced that the public is ready for Meghan Part Two,” she wrote in the I.
Harry set to return to UK for High Court privacy case
Harry is set to make a return to the UK in the coming weeks as his High Court privacy case against Associated Newspapers Limited. The Duke of Sussex will travel from his home in California for the trial opening, currently scheduled for around January 19.
However, when he returns to the UK, a reunion with King Charles appears unlikely, sources have told The Telegraph. The monarch is expected to be at his Scottish residence during the relevant dates, as he typically steps back from official engagements throughout much of January.
Charles reportedly has no desire to be connected with any legal proceedings and would prefer to keep his distance from his younger son on this occasion. This stands in contrast to their last meeting in September, when the pair spent 50 minutes together at Clarence House.
The trial is expected to run for nine weeks, with costs projected to exceed £38million. That encounter, their first in 19 months, was viewed as meaningful progress amid the ongoing family estrangement.
