Prince Harry will seemingly do a lot to reconcile with his father, King Charles. But giving up his ongoing fight for private security if and when his wife and children come to the U.K. doesn’t seem to be one of those things!
According to reports, the Duke of Sussex, 41, is still very adamant about getting private security for wife Meghan Markle, 44, and children Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, if they are to ever visit the U.K. again. And King Charles is reportedly not happy with the “calculated” tactics he is using to get what he wants…
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Prince Harry Reportedly Won't Bring His Family To The UK Without 'Enhanced Security Package'
The Spare author has reportedly claimed that he and his family wish to visit the King at Sandringham this summer, with an insider telling London's Sunday Times: "He'd like an invite to Sandringham. Would he go? It would depend who was there. If the King was to say, 'Come up and spend some time with the family,' he'd love that.”
But the invitation itself is only part of it, as he reportedly also wants security reinstated for his family before even thinking about making the trip. An insider has claimed that Prince Harry needs "an enhanced package of security, so he can stay as long as he wants whenever he wants, and see his father with the children." They added: "There is not a world in which he brings the kids back unless there is an enhanced security package around them."
This has seemingly gone down like a lead balloon, with a source wasting no time in saying that anyone would be "horrified by any suggestion of using the King's grandchildren as a form of bargaining tool."
King Charles Was Already 'Furious' With Prince Harry's 'Appalling' Move: 'The Duke Has Crossed A Line'
This isn't the first time Prince Harry has reportedly done this sort of thing. Last year, RadarOnline quoted a palace insider as saying that King Charles was "furious" over Prince Harry threatening to stop grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet from seeing him unless he granted Prince Harry the private security he wanted.
The insider said at the time that the King thought it was a "calculated tactic," and one which he wasn't happy with. "Charles has described this privately as 'bribery in all but name,'" the insider confessed, adding: "Withholding his access to his grandchildren as he fights cancer is just disgusting in his view, and has ruined any chances Harry had of a reconciliation with the royals."
"There's a firm sense inside the Palace that the Duke has crossed a line," a senior courtier, who reportedly wanted to remain anonymous, continued. "The suggestion that time with the children might be contingent on security funding was seen as appalling."
Royal expert Tom Quinn added at the time: "Charles believes Harry should let bygones be bygones for the sake of Archie and Lilibet, but he senses that access to the children is being used as a bargaining chip and that, in Charles' view, is unforgivable."
