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Prince Harry has thrown what was supposed to be his \u201clandmark\u201d homecoming to the U.K into further chaos by going \u201cnuclear\u201d on the royal family Monday, accusing them of dangling an offer for him to stay at Buckingham Palace only to withdraw it \u201cat the last moment\u201d for allegedly nefarious reasons.<\/p>\n
Harry was expected to arrive\u00a0 in the U.K. Monday for a five-day trip, starting in London. According to palace sources and multiple news outlets, including The Daily Mail,<\/a> ITV,<\/a> the Daily Beast<\/a> and People,<\/a> Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and children, Archie and Lilibet, had been offered accommodation at a royal residence \u201cfor some time.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n However, Harry kept going back and forth on whether to accept the offer amid his larger outrage over security arrangements for their U.K. trip \u2014 a week of \u201cpsychodrama\u201d<\/a> that has resulted in Meghan, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, likely staying behind and the children potentially losing out on the opportunity to see their grandfather, King Charles III, for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n When it comes to Harry\u2019s Buckingham Palace stay, multiple outlets report that royal aides told him that the palace needed to\u00a0 know by the end of last week whether he planned to accept the offer, so that royal household staff had time to prepare for him. That deadline passed, and the California-based Duke of Sussex, reportedly making the arrangements himself while on a family vacation in Portugal<\/a>, initially declined the offer on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n But Harry then changed his mind later Saturday and said he wanted to accept the offer after all, only to be told it was too late to do so. Palace sources said it wasn\u2019t logistically possible for the household to make the necessary arrangements in time and claimed that Harry\u2019s team had \u201cmessed them around,\u201d the Daily Beast reported.<\/p>\n More chaos ensued at 9 a.m. Monday, when Harry\u2019s team told the BBC<\/a> he would be staying at Buckingham Palace. But minutes later, the palace corrected the report to say what Harry supposedly already knew \u2014 that he had accepted the offer too late, and it had been rescinded.<\/p>\n In response to this correction, Harry\u2019s team went \u201cnuclear,\u201d<\/a> according to Daily Beast journalist Tom Sykes<\/a>. The Daily Mail said Harry\u2019s spokesperson released an \u201cextraordinary statement,\u201d expressing \u201cdisappointment\u201d and accusing Buckingham Palace of withdrawing the offer \u201cat the last moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Harry\u2019s spokesperson tried to explain that his failure to give notice on time stemmed from his scramble over making new\u00a0 security arrangements for his U.K. trip \u2014 after he claimed on June 27 that he learned at \u201cthe 11th hour\u201d that he wasn\u2019t going to get the level of taxpayer-funded police protection he wanted for him and his family during their visit. The spokesperson also alleged that Buckingham Palace decided it didn\u2019t want Harry staying there this week because a major U.K. court ruling is expected Tuesday in the duke\u2019s controversial privacy lawsuit against the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n It has long been known that Harry would come to the U.K. to promote the year-long countdown to his Invictus Games 2027 in Birmingham. Weeks ago, his team began letting the media know that Meghan would join him, and that they would make joint appearances on behalf of several charities, including the Invictus Games, an international competition for wounded service men and women.<\/p>\n On June 26, the Sussex team issued an \u201coperational note\u201d to journalists, confirming that Archie and Lilibet would accompany their parents in what was supposed to herald \u201ca dramatic rapprochement\u201d between Harry and his estranged, 77-year-old father, reports said. In that note, the Sussex team also acknowledged that Harry knew of a decision by the special Home Office committee \u2014 known as RAVEC \u2014 to not make taxpayer-funded police protection available to him and his family. Harry\u2019s team indicated that it was fine making alternative arrangements, Sykes reported last week.<\/p>\n But in what\u2019s become a familiar pattern, Harry\u2019s team put out a new announcement \u2014 saying he actually was reconsidering whether to bring Meghan and his children to the U.K. because of the RAVEC decision. Harry has long said he doesn\u2019t feel safe bringing his\u00a0 wife and children to visit his home country without that automatic police protection.<\/p>\n Over the next week, Harry\u2019s team ratcheted up the security dispute by leaking a report, commissioned by him and authored by his security team, claiming that he and his family were the target of \u201creal and credible threats,\u201d including threats of terrorism, according to the Daily Beast and the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n Since then, word has come that Harry and Meghan have not ruled out Meghan and the children coming to the U.K. \u2014 but later in the week and while bypassing London, the Daily Mail reported. Meghan was scheduled to join her husband at an event in Birmingham on Friday to promote the Invictus Games. But it\u2019s not known if a visit with Charles and his grandchildren is still on the itinerary.<\/p>\n Harry and Meghan lost their eligibility for automatic, police protection six years ago, after they moved from the U.K. to California and announced they no longer wanted to be working members of the royal family.\u00a0Harry can ask for police protection when he visits the U.K., but he needs to provide 28 days notice of his itinerary. The level of protection he receives is decided on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mercurynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry has thrown what was supposed to be his \u201clandmark\u201d homecoming to the U.K into further chaos by going \u201cnuclear\u201d on the royal family Monday, accusing them of dangling an offer for him to stay at Buckingham Palace only to withdraw it \u201cat the last moment\u201d for allegedly nefarious reasons. 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