{"id":787430,"date":"2026-09-30T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787430\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:44:09","slug":"harry-and-meghan-two-men-spotted-near-archie-and-lilibets-school-as-sussexes-condemn-reckless-intrusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787430\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan: Two men spotted near Archie and Lilibet’s school as Sussexes condemn ‘reckless intrusion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC understands that the two men were observed by both private security and school staff, stopping at various points and looking into the school grounds, before returning to a van which police later established was a rental vehicle.<\/p>\n

One of the men was later identified as photographer for a European press agency.<\/p>\n

“The decision by photographers to conduct themselves in this way around a school is extraordinarily reckless,” Harry and Meghan’s spokesman said.<\/p>\n

“There is a world of difference between legitimate media activity and photographers walking the perimeter of a school, stopping to look into the grounds and monitoring children as they go about their day.”<\/p>\n

The spokesman continued: “Whatever photographs they may have been seeking, this was not only an unacceptable intrusion into the privacy of children; it was an irresponsible and ill-considered way to conduct themselves in the vicinity of a school.”<\/p>\n

The children began school in the UK at the start of September, but changed after a few days after security concerns were raised about traffic<\/a> during the school run. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, it emerged that the Sussexes are going to be given a review of their publicly funded security, following their move back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC understands that the two men were observed by both private security and school staff, stopping at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}