Prince Harry: Is his safety at risk?
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BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Nada Tawfik, North America correspondent, speaks to Prince Harry about reconciliation with the royal family after his loss in court over his security arrangements in the UK
The Prince stepped down from his duties as a working royal in 2020 and moved to the United States with his wife, Meghan. After his tax-payer funded protection was downgraded, he said it was too dangerous to bring his family back to the UK without adequate police protection and took the government to court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Nettaufeek, the BBC's North America correspondent, and this is the interview from the BBC World Service, the best conversations coming out of the BBC, people shaping our world from all over the world. |
| 0:13.7 | I will come back to Russia. I will participate in the elections. |
| 0:18.9 | There's an increase in violence according to the coca crop. There's no |
| 0:23.3 | place in the world where women are equal. I will get away the vast majority of my money and it's |
| 0:28.3 | my full-time focus for the rest of my life. For this interview, I meet Prince Harry, a member of |
| 0:35.2 | the British royal family who sits down with me not in a grand |
| 0:38.6 | palace, but a location near his adopted home in Santa Barbara, California. He speaks about a row, |
| 0:45.0 | which has become an emblem of Harry's sense of exclusion from the family. It's been five years |
| 0:50.8 | since he stepped down from royal duties. In that time, he has moved to the U.S. and his security for his visits to his homeland have been downgraded. He told me this has been a factor in not bringing his wife Megan and their family back to the UK. So he took the government to court. |
| 1:07.4 | Prince Harry's legal team argued that the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, known as Ravik, |
| 1:13.2 | did not properly reassess the threats he faced when considering his situation in 2020. |
| 1:19.2 | On Friday, three judges rejected this. Harry lost the battle. Buckingham Palace said, |
| 1:25.4 | all of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, |
| 1:30.2 | with the same conclusion reached on each occasion. |
| 1:33.5 | This has been a complex court case, another piece in the royal drama of a divided family. |
| 1:38.8 | I would love reconciliation with my family. |
| 1:41.6 | There's no point in continuing to fight anymore. And they said, life is precious. I don't know how much longer my family. You know, there's no point in continuing to fight anymore. And I said, life is |
| 1:45.2 | precious. I don't know how much longer my father has. He won't speak to me because of this |
| 1:51.2 | security stuff. But it would be nice to reconcile. Born into one of the most famous families, |
| 1:58.0 | he spent his adolescence in the limelight and the world watched as he grieved the |
| 2:02.0 | death of his mother, Princess Diana. Welcome to the interview from the BBC World Service with Prince Harry. |
| 2:10.0 | We thought it was going to go our way, but it certainly has proven that there was no way to win this through the courts. |
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