Prince Harry ‘Never’ Thought He’d Lose Palace Security After Prince Andrew Was Protected Amid Sexual Assault Scandal

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 Proven wrong. Prince Harry didn’t think he and Meghan Markle would ever lose their palace security after The Firm continued to protect his uncle Prince Andrew amid a sexual assault scandal, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.“Never.

Not in this climate of hate. Not after what happened to my mother [Princess Diana]. Also, not in the wake of my Uncle Andrew,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, writes in his Spare memoir, recalling his assertions to Markle, 41, when he and the Suits alum decided to move across the pond after stepping down from their roles as senior royals in 2020. “He was embroiled in a shameful scandal, accused of the sexual assault of a young woman and no one had so much suggested that he lose his security.

Whatever grievances people had against us, sex crimes weren’t on the list.”Harry and Meghan, however, did indeed lose their royal security detail after scaling back their royal duties, robbing the couple of what Harry considered the palace’s “obligation” and “its implicit promise.”Andrew, 62, for his part, was stripped of his military affiliations and Royal patronages in January 2022 after he was accused of having sex with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 in connection with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking ring.

The Duke of York denied any wrongdoing and the lawsuit against him was settled out of court in February 2022.After losing royal safeguarding, Harry continued to fight for the safety of his family. (He and Meghan — who tied the knot in May 2018 — share son Archie, 3 and daughter Lilibet, 19 months.) In January 2022, the prince issued a statement citing his inability to personally fund police protection for his wife and children while in the U.K.“Prince Harry inherited a security risk