Harry travelled to Britain alone this week after back-and-forth briefing on whether he’d bring Meghan, Archie, seven, and Lili, five, with him. The children, who haven’t seen their UK-based relatives since 2022, are expected to remain in the US after the duke failed to secure taxpayer-funded protection.
Ms Allsopp wrote in a post on X: “In about 12 years time, these children will rebel, they will come to the UK, meet their cousins and other family, and bitterly resent their British life being taken from them.”
She added: “It is all so staggeringly predictable, and sad for all concerned. Have the Sussexes never read a novel?”
The prevarication around Harry’s trip to mark the one-year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games follows years of tension in the Royal Family after he stepped down as a senior royal in 2020.
The duke made a number of incendiary claims about King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Princess and Princess of Wales after moving to the US with Meghan, including in his Oprah interview and autobiography Spare.
These included that Charles did not hug him when he told him Princess Diana had died, and that William physically attacked him and pushed him into a dog bowl.
When Harry lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the Home Office over his UK security arrangements in 2025, he told the BBC he wanted to reconcile with his family and revealed that Charles would not speak to him because of the legal case.
He said at the time that he “can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK”.
While Harry initially appeared to have been told adequate security would be provided for the trip this month, this later appeared not to be the case.
The duke was awaiting a review by the Risk Management Board (RMB), part of the process through which the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) rules on his security requirements. Reports suggest a request for police protection had been turned down.