PRINCE Harry “could return to the UK” for a new role when Charles ascends to the throne, the Duke’s former protection officer claims.
The Duke quit the UK in 2020 for a new life in the US with Meghan and son Archie after the couple stepped down as senior royals.
Speaking on the Pod Save the Queen podcast, the Duke’s former police protection officer Ken Wharfe revealed he thought the Duke could return home for a new role.
When asked if the Sussexes ever come back to the UK to live, Ken, who has written a new book called Diana: Remembering the Princess, told The Mirror: “Personally I do and I base that on gut reaction really. I just cannot see them forever more living in California.
“It’s clear to me that Harry is not quite a fish out of sea – I mean he is getting involved in charitable work and he has these attachments to Netflix and other companies but quite where they’ll end up we don’t know.
“But I just think his involvement with his military charities – quite how he runs that on the other side of the Atlantic, I don’t know.
“But I just have this feeling that he could well be back in a new role, with or without Meghan – I honestly don’t know.
“But to answer your question, I do think he will be back in some form as part of his father’s plan for trimming down the monarchy because within the next decade that is going to happen.”
Since Meghan and Harry quit the Firm, William and Kate’s charity has gone from strength to strength since they split with Harry and Meghan, new figures show.
Income for The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leapt from £6.7million in 2019 to £20.4million in 2021.
Finally, the coverage of Megxit, Harry and Meghan’s decision to quit their royal duties, was very similar to the media’s treatment of Princess Diana, claims a filmmaker.
Ed Perkins, the director of HBO’s The Princess, tells PEOPLE he felt those parallels as he made his upcoming documentary.
“For a space of about a month or two, it seemed like [Harry and Meghan] were the only thing people were talking about,” Perkins says. “Very few people were apathetic and it reminded me of the response I was seeing in the archive from 25, 30 years previously, where, for the entirety of Diana’s public life, we were dissecting everything.”
“People had strong polarised opinions all the way throughout her life and after her death, and it did feel interesting that there was a sort of similar national conversation happening 25 years later,” he continues.
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