{"id":616790,"date":"2026-09-30T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616790\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:28:10","slug":"prince-harrys-children-targeted-by-european-paparazzi-while-at-school-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616790\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s children targeted by ‘European paparazzi’ while at school in England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry’s children have been stalked by “certain European paparazzi” while at school in the English countryside<\/a>, his spokesperson says, describing their conduct as an “extraordinarily \u200breckless” intrusion into the family’s privacy.<\/p>\n

The incident was the latest security issue for Harry, \u200cthe younger son of King Charles, following his relocation to Britain<\/a> from California with his American wife Meghan Markle and two children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, last month.<\/p>\n

The family have \u200bsought to keep the location of their new home and the children’s school \u200bprivate. The children have already changed schools after heavy traffic on the \u2060route to the original location caused concerns for their security team.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Harry \u200band Meghan said photographers had walked the perimeter of the new school before stopping to \u200blook in the grounds and monitor the children there.<\/p>\n

“The decision by photographers to conduct themselves in this way around a school is extraordinarily reckless,” the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

While the British press have \u200bbeen broadly respectful of the family’s privacy since they moved back, the couple’s spokesperson \u200bsaid “certain European paparazzi appear unwilling to respect the privacy of children at school”.<\/p>\n

Harry, 42, has long blamed \u200cthe \u2060press for the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana, who was killed when the car she was in crashed as the driver sped away from chasing paparazzi.<\/p>\n

He is fiercely protective of his family’s privacy, comparing press treatment of Meghan to that suffered by his \u200bmother.<\/p>\n

The couple, who stepped \u200bdown from royal \u2060duties in 2020 and became private citizens, have their own security team but want the British government to provide their family with \u200bautomatic police protection, as is the case for other senior members \u200bof the \u2060royal family.<\/p>\n

Harry’s brother, Prince William, the heir to the throne, has had similar experiences with European paparazzi and has in the past won privacy cases against French magazines for publishing photographs of \u2060his \u200bfamily while not on official duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s children have been stalked by “certain European paparazzi” while at school in the English countryside, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-616790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616790","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=616790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}