Prince Harry and his wife Meghan They have changed their two children’s schools due to safety concerns a spokesperson said on Tuesday, just weeks after the family returned to the UK to start over.
“Children’s change of school It was decided after a conversation with the security team of the family about the practicalities of their current arrangements,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, had just started the new school year in England after the family moved from California in late August.
British media reported that the distance to school and the heavy traffic on the route were among the concerns raised by the couple and their security team. The family lives in a private, non-royal residence on the outskirts of London.
“This decision should in no way be interpreted as a reflection on the school or the exceptional care the children have received there,” the statement said.
The news came after reports that the couple was awaiting a new evaluation by the government committee that reviews the protection of VIPs, including whether the family should be entitled to publicly funded security now living in the UK.
Harry and Meghan quit royal duties and moved to California more than six years agostating that they wanted to make a living on their own. They later signed lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify.
Although relations with the rest of the royal family have deteriorated since then, Harry has recently expressed interest in a reconciliation so he could spend more time with his father, King Charles III.
Harry is free a protracted battle with the British government to restore publicly funded police protection, which was canceled when the couple left royal duties.
Previously, the prince had said he could not “imagine a world in which I would take my wife and children back to the UK” without a guarantee of safety.
The king reiterated earlier this month that Harry and Meghan remain non-active members of the royal family and that they would continue to refrain from using formal royal titles as they have done since 2020. The couple said they were surprised by the way the monarch issued that statement because they were given little time to review it.