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To think that Harry and his kids should have security

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Noras · 15/09/2026 12:24

Frankly I don’t want another year of wondering if Harry will attend another event or stay in a palace or will or will not get security etc.

For the sake of our sanity the matter needs to be resolved.

Harry could become a working royal and Meghan could go back to being an actress - they are then both happy

Harry and the kids get protection and Meghan can pay for her own

If Harry and the PoW could make up it would make next year much better ( 30 year anniversary)

Meghan needs to stop trading ( in my opinion) on the memory of Diana ( if it is true she wanted to do a speech re Diana etc) Leave Diana to the boys only.

There are innocent children involved and they do need protecting.

Harry needs to change his attitude and stop fighting the system for the sake of the nations sanity. Meghan has to realise that she upset many of us re the courtesy thing etc and the attack on the POW and POW.

The POW needs to realise that Harry can’t steal his thunder.

Everyone needs to think of King Charles who frankly needs to have a break from all this.

I am not a Meghan supporter or a bot. I just can’t bear another 3 months of frenzied speculation. My head is done in.

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OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 16:20

Didimum · 16/09/2026 15:03

I said think they should be provided with armed security. Nowhere did I say I 24/7 armed security.

I do think they are comparable to Wales’ children.

Info of their geographical location becoming available is moot. They can’t live in a black hole so it’s of no importance whether it’s known now or later.

Edited

Well what only armed between 9-5? As if the threat is removed after tea time?

They either need armed security or they don't.

Didimum · 16/09/2026 19:11

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 16:19

Well .... The professionals with security intelligence don't think they are.

Why do you think they are?

It’s a thread asking what people think. People will discuss what they think because there is a thread about it. If everyone agreed with the status quo of everything then there would be no discussion about anything.

Go and bother someone else.

Didimum · 16/09/2026 19:14

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 16:20

Well what only armed between 9-5? As if the threat is removed after tea time?

They either need armed security or they don't.

Why do you keep incessantly replying to me? I’ve said what I’ve said and it stands. Asking me in myriad different ways won’t change it. Again – go and bother someone else.

Vaxtable · 16/09/2026 19:27

Bearing in mind a lot of the RF only get protection when they are working and Harry is not a working royal he can go jump

op I suggest you read the posts over on the royal family site lots of good information explaining exactly why this man child and his tantrum throwing wife don’t need security. They need to just shut up and move the quiet life they say they wanted in 2020

Horses7 · 16/09/2026 20:03

outerspacepotato · 16/09/2026 14:17

They don't work for the government or the royal family, why should their security be paid for by either of those?

They're private citizens and should be paying for their own like other famous private citizens do.

This !

fridaynightzzz · 16/09/2026 20:26

If they had been successful in America they wouldn’t be asking for this. We aren’t the standby for his failures.

AI41 · 16/09/2026 20:54

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 16:19

Well .... The professionals with security intelligence don't think they are.

Why do you think they are?

The professionals did classify Harry as the highest risk band for security though, along with the Wales family. Harry and family would still be getting it if they hadn’t left. It hasn’t reduced because of a reduction in threat. It’s due to them stepping down as working royals.

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 21:02

AI41 · 16/09/2026 20:54

The professionals did classify Harry as the highest risk band for security though, along with the Wales family. Harry and family would still be getting it if they hadn’t left. It hasn’t reduced because of a reduction in threat. It’s due to them stepping down as working royals.

So they don't think he is now 🤷

He's not representing the crown anymore,so maybe his risk level dropped....

If he needed it, they'd provide it.

AI41 · 16/09/2026 23:16

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 16/09/2026 21:02

So they don't think he is now 🤷

He's not representing the crown anymore,so maybe his risk level dropped....

If he needed it, they'd provide it.

Sorry, but this is simply wrong. The security classification changed because he stopped being a working royal. Publicly funded armed security is only given to working royals. 24 hour publicly funded armed protection was only being received by QEII, C&C, Wales and Sussex families, because they were the only ones classified as needing top tier protection due to risk.

To reiterate, to get 24 hour publicly funded armed protection, you must both be classed as the severest of the risk groups and be a working royal.

Harry’s was removed because he stopped being a working royal, not because of a change in his risk classification.

He moved out of the UK which is when the decision was communicated that security would be looked at on a tailored basis when Harry was on UK soil, but that Harry would no longer have Internationally Protected Person status.

Now he’s back full time, the risks can’t only be considered when he has a trip home. The issue will have to be considered once again.

LittleWeasel · 17/09/2026 10:27

What he wants is IPP status, so that for which ever country he and Meghan go to they get treated as very important people.

However they don’t want to represent the UK. Just seems they want to go in endless jaunts, collect goody bags at events, speak a few “bon mots” here and there, make trite programmes about their indulged lives and sell shite* to make money.

You would hope the children actually get to go to school to be educated and mix socially with other children their age so they develop into normal adjusted adults not spoilt nepo babies only able to live off social media grifting. That they learn to make real friends not false ones for endless “ scratch my back” opportunities.

*by sell shite I’m including books and podcasts

thisismeithinkorisit · 17/09/2026 10:30

Marycontrarygarden · 15/09/2026 12:25

Oh to have this much time on my hands 🙄🙄🙄🙄

so you habet got 4 minutes to type a post but you've got 2 minutes to read it and reply? I'm not sure you're that much more time poor than op?

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