{"id":502647,"date":"2026-06-30T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:56:24","slug":"real-reason-prince-archie-and-princess-lilibet-wont-be-seen-on-uk-trip-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502647\/","title":{"rendered":"Real &#8216;reason&#8217; Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet won&#8217;t be seen on UK trip | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Harry and Meghan have not made a comment about this, it is believed that their children will not attend public engagements with them to maintain their privacy.<\/p>\n<p>This is important to the couple, who keep Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, out of the public spotlight, even avoiding showing their faces on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the couple <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-holiday-card-features-first-new-photo-prince-archie-princess-lilibet-8759510\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">once told PEOPLE<\/a>: &#8220;Harry has been reluctant to show his children publicly, not out of a desire to hide them but to protect their privacy and safety from potential threats. He wants them to lead as normal a life as possible without the fear of kidnapping or harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time the whole family has been in Harry\u2019s home country together since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Harry has been to the UK alone since on numerous occasions, citing security concerns as the reason why his family has not accompanied him from their home in Montecito.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said last year that he would like his children to get to know his home country, which may be about to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Harry and Meghan have not made a comment about this, it is believed that their children will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,3578,16177,250896,250897,136156],"class_list":["post-502647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry-prince-archie","tag-prince-harry-princess-lilibet","tag-prince-harry-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}