As Star previously reported<\/a>, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee is reevaluating the threat level against Harry, 41, and wife Meghan Markle, 44, which could lead to reinstated taxpayer-funded protection for the Sussexes. (Harry lost a legal bid to regain security for his family in May.)<\/p>\n \u201cThe security decision is just the first domino. Once it\u2019s in place, Harry can quietly expand his influence without anyone really noticing \u2014 until it\u2019s too late,\u201d one source told Shuter, with another adding that he\u2019s \u201ccarefully\u201d building his own royal court of staffers to reestablish a London base for his family.<\/p>\n Mega<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been playing the long game,\u201d one insider told Shuter. \u201cHarry wants legitimacy. He wants to operate in the U.K. on his own terms \u2014 meetings, charitable work, high-level engagements \u2014 without being treated like a guest in his own country.\u201d<\/p>\n And courtiers fear that even though the Spare author is fifth in line for the throne, his \u201cmeasured, ambitious, unstoppable\u201d scheme could cause chaos for his brother\u2019s future reign, Shuter added.<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t about a return to the family,\u201d another royal insider told Shuter. \u201cIt\u2019s about competing<\/a> with them.\u201d<\/p>\n This story Prince Harry \u2018Building\u2019 His Own Royal Court to Rival Prince William\u2019s: \u2018He\u2019s Been Playing the Long Game\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Star<\/a>. Add Star as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game of thrones! Prince Harry\u2019s bid to reinstate his family\u2019s U.K. security protection is part of a secret…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,56129,33664,189427,5513,7551,29505,189426],"class_list":{"0":"post-340966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-game-of-thrones","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-naughty-but-nice","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-prince-william","17":"tag-rob-shuter","18":"tag-vip-executive-committee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d07d3e850782ec541e3e506a936d0ea2.jpeg\"\/)
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