LONDON— Prince Harry said he wanted to mend his tense relationship with the Royal Family on Friday after losing a judicial battle over his lack of publicly paid protection.

“I would really like to make amends with my family. Harry told the BBC, “There’s no point in fighting people anymore.” “Having that reconciliation aspect now would be fantastic. It is completely up to them if they do not want that.

After losing his appeal against the U.K. government’s decision to eliminate his publicly paid security detail—a decision that Harry claims has caused a rift with his father—he spoke with the BBC.

Harry stated that he was unsure about his father’s remaining days and that

“he won’t speak to me because of this security stuff.” Last year, King Charles III, from whom Harry claims he is presently cut off, received a cancer diagnosis.

Harry said, “I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” in the absence of security.

When Charles’ second son left the royal family as a full-time member and relocated to the United States with his bride, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, in February 2020, his protection was decreased. This implied that security was supplied by the British government on an as-needed basis.

Fifth in line for the throne, Harry had claimed that the organization in charge

of guarding the Royal Family was not abiding by its own regulations and that prominent members of the family, such as the monarch and his brother Prince William, are constantly protected.

After William and Meghan resigned from their positions as working members of the Royal Family in 2020, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, also known as Ravec, decided on his security arrangements. Like other high-profile visitors to the United Kingdom, his security is now determined on an individual basis.

“All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion,” a Buckingham Palace official said following the decision on Friday.

Judges Sir Geoffrey Vos, Lord Justice Andrew Edis, and Lord Justice David Bean rejected his appeal in their decision on Friday.

Sir Geoffrey Vos said the court that Harry “was in effect stepping in and out of the cohort of protection provided by Ravec.”

“He was outside the cohort outside of the U.K., but depending on the situation, his security would be deemed appropriate when in the U.K.” he stated. In my opinion, it was impossible to declare that this line of reasoning was unreasonable or inappropriate. Yes, that did sound reasonable,” he continued.

Harry “inherited a security risk at birth, for life,” according to a previous written statement made to the court by his legal team. He “served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats in recent years,” the statement continued.

According to the report, Harry and his spouse felt “compelled to step back” from their positions because they believed the institution was not protecting them.

Harry has claimed that the harassment his wife endures from some segments of the public and media, which he claims are driven by racism, puts him and his family in special danger.

In February 2024, the British High Court dismissed his case, ruling that the decision to alter Harry’s security status was not procedurally unjust nor illogical. He lost the opportunity to appeal the decision two months later, but it was subsequently reversed.

After a government attorney argued that police personnel shouldn’t be employed as “private bodyguards for the wealthy,” Harry was unable to convince another judge last year that he should be allowed to pay for London’s Metropolitan Police force to protect him while he is in the United Kingdom.

Harry has frequently been in British courts in recent years, suing the publishers of tabloid newspapers and his security measures for allegedly deploying private detectives and phone hacking to pry on his life for news articles.

After a protracted court struggle, News Group Newspapers, the corporation owned by Rupert Murdoch, agreed to pay Harry “substantial damages.” NGN acknowledged that employees of The Sun newspapers used illegal means to get personal information on Harry and his late mother, Princess Diana, between 1996 and 2011.

The duke is also one of several celebrities who are suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), another publisher that publishes the Daily Mail, alleging that it broke the law by attempting to get personal information about them. Next year is when the trial is scheduled to begin.

He withdrew a libel suit against ANL in 2023 since the network had covered his court dispute over personal security. He also won 140,600 pounds ($179,350) that same year after successfully suing Mirror Group Newspapers for phone hacking.

News source: NBC NEWS