Queen Elizabeth II Faces ‘Hard’ Choice in Prince Harry Security Debate: She Won’t Go Against the Government, Royal Expert Says

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Trying to stay out of it. Queen Elizabeth II is in a tricky spot amid Prince Harry’s plea for added security protection during his U.K.

visits.“[It’s] hard for her, as a grandmother, to not really be able to intervene,” royal expert Kristin Contino exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 18. “She’s [not] going to go up against the government and say, ‘Well, you know, you need to give him security.’ Because right now, the metropolitan police [are] saying they’ve conducted a review and [concluded that] the threat is considered low to him.”The 95-year-old monarch’s role makes it “one of those situations” where she is “always going to choose [the] monarch at the end of the day,” the A House Full of Windsor author explained.Earlier this month, Harry, 37, applied for a judicial review regarding the fact that he was previously unable to personally fund police protection for his family while in England.“While his role within the Institution has changed, his profile as a member of the royal family has not.

Nor has the threat to him and his family,” the Duke of Sussex’s legal spokesperson said in a Saturday, January 15, statement, noting that Harry is “willing to cover the cost of security” and not use taxpayers’ dollars to up his security whenever he’s in town.The lengthy statement claimed that Harry’s previous offer to pay for his family’s added security while in the U.K.

was dismissed. The lack of protection for him, his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Archie, 2, and Lili, 7 months, has allegedly made it hard to return to his home country.“The goal for Prince Harry has been simple — to ensure the safety of himself and his family while in the U.K.