{"id":629695,"date":"2026-04-25T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:26:08","slug":"buckingham-palace-issues-statement-hours-after-harry-reaffirms-royal-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629695\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace issues statement hours after Harry reaffirms royal status"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Buckingham<\/p>\n

Prince Harry had seemingly sent a direct message to his father King Charles about his status as member of the royal family even though he is officially not a working royal.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex, who made a surprise visit to Ukraine Thursday to spotlight the affects of war. He had joined the humanitarian landmine clearance organisation HALO to explore the latest digital de-mining technology near the city of Bucha.<\/p>\n

Following the visit, he asserted that he would always be \u201cpart of the royal family\u201d and he is doing the things he was \u201cborn to do\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hours later, the royal family issued a message, especially targeted for Australians. It also came just days after the Sussexes had wrapped their arguably successful four-day visit to Down Under.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is #ANZACDay \u2013 which honours the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to sources, the royals are not particularly keen to see the Sussexes conducting \u2018faux royal tours\u2019, especially how warmly they were welcomed by the public.<\/p>\n

King Charles is still the head of state for Australia and New Zealand. The Anzac Day message could also have been a way to remind where power belongs.<\/p>\n

However, ironically, the two share a similar message for peace. While Harry made a remark about his royal role, he emphasised that there is a need to be more discussions on peace rather than wars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the royals honoured members who only only served during conflicts but also peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry had seemingly sent a direct message to his father King Charles about his status as member…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-629695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629695","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=629695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}