'A Risk to the Palace': Prince Harry's Potential Return to the Royal Family Could Backfire for the Crown

Any potential return to royal life for Prince Harry could become too much of a liability for the British monarchy.

"The fact that he has no respect for his father, no respect for his birth, I think he is going to be a big danger because he will go into competition with the royal family themselves," royal biographer Angela Levin dished.

"London is his home, and he wants his children to be here. They can’t be unless they get top protection. I thought to myself, if he starts doing that, it’s because everything else has failed. He wants to come back. He wants to be a member of the royal family again, but my goodness, he is a very changed Harry, and he’s going to do what he wants," she added.

Levin continued: "I don’t think he deserves [it]. It’s police with guns. He can get a second-grade one if he wants with no trouble at all. But if he wants that, he takes them off the street for people like you and me. They will have to have four of them, and three times a day they change. I think that’s really dangerous. I hope that the decision that’s made is that he can have very good protection."

This insight comes amid the fifth in line to the throne's lawsuit against Associated Newspapers in the U.K. On Monday, December 11, a judge dismissed the Montecito Duke's bid to have the newspaper conglomerate's defense of his claim thrown out. The judge further added that Harry should pay the corporation £48,447 "on account" before the start of 2024.

It has been reported in the past that the Duke of Sussex may eventually try and return to his royal life at some point in the future — but he is likely to be disappointed if he attempts this. Even though his father, King Charles III, is essentially the CEO of the monarchy, he is likely to adopt his mother, Queen Elizabeth II's, approach to ruling, which is "when you are out, you stay out."

Harry's constant need to sue over "anything and everything" is also not winning the rebel prince many new supporters in Britain.

"Harry has an addiction to litigation. That is a legal category called vexatious litigant. Harry needs to go into treatment and realize it’s one thing if the press defames you, it’s quite another thing to scratch around looking for all sorts of things trying to attack a free press when you are supporting the right to a press to be free. Harry is anti-free speech. He called the First Amendment 'bonkers.' Harry needs to grow up and realize if he is going to behave as a prince and claim to be one, he needs to start to act as one," Lady Colin Campbell told an outlet.

Daily Express reported on Levin's comments.