Meghan Markle has reportedly been granted her first government-backed security review since returning to the UK.
Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, are both expected to undergo an official risk assessment shortly, the Telegraph reported Monday.
The Royal and VIP Executive Committee, known as Ravec, has reportedly asked the couple to provide comprehensive details about their new day-to-day routines.
According to the report, the Ravec chairman informed Harry last week that fresh security risk assessments would be commissioned for both him and Markle following their move back to Britain.
Hello! also reported Monday that Markle, 45, and Harry, 41, have opted to change their children’s school over security concerns tied to the journey to the school they initially selected. The decision came just two days after the children began attending.
Heavy traffic and the distance between the school and the family’s home reportedly contributed to the decision, placing pressure on “their small, private security team.”
Markle has previously voiced concerns about her children’s privacy while attending school in the UK. In a 2022 interview with the Cut, she raised the prospect of paparazzi photographing Princess Lilibet, 5, and Prince Archie, 7, during school drop-offs and pickups.
“Sorry, I have a problem with that,” she said at the time. “That doesn’t make me obsessed with privacy. That makes me a strong and good parent protecting my child.”
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A friend close to the couple previously told the Telegraph that daily school runs could represent the “most danger” for Harry and Markle after their return to the UK without taxpayer-funded security.
“It is absolutely the biggest area of concern,” the source said.
News of the security review and school concerns comes one day after the former “Suits” actress shared an intimate video on Instagram of the family’s picture-perfect return to Harry’s home country.
The video includes footage of Lilibet riding her bike as Archie runs beside her, and Harry taking his kids out on a boat to fish.
According to royal commentator Kinsey Schofield, the decision to post intimate family moments on social media is “striking” in its “hypocrisy.”
“If privacy is genuinely the priority, the most effective strategy is simple… stop broadcasting your family life to millions of strangers,” Schofield exclusively told Page Six Sunday. “Every hyper-curated glimpse of the children, the dogs, the countryside, and their domestic routine invites more attention, more questions, and more interest in where and how they are living.”
She added, “You cannot deliberately feed that machine and then act astonished or outraged when people want to know more.”
Harry and Markle are awaiting an answer from the UK’s Home Office about whether they will receive long- term taxpayer-funded police protection now that they are residing in Europe. They were previously denied protection rights during visits to the UK.