Prince Harry reveals the real reason he won't let Meghan Markle return to the UK

Prince Harry has revealed the terrifying reason he will not take his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, to the UK, saying he is worried about the threat of an acid attack.

Speaking at a new interview in Tabloids on Trial for ITV King Charles' youngest son said: "All it takes is one actor, one person who has read this stuff, to act on what he has read, and whether it is a knife or acid... those are real concerns for me, that is one of the reasons why I will not bring my wife back to this country.

His comments come almost two years after Neil Basu, the outgoing assistant commissioner for specialist operations at Scotland Yard, said in a Channel 4 documentary that "disgusting and very real" threats had been made against the two men.

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“If you saw what was written and you were getting it, the kind of rhetoric that’s online… you would feel threatened all the time,” he said; Neil was in charge of royal protection before the Sussexes left the UK

"We had teams investigating. People were prosecuted for these threats," he concluded.

In the interview with ITV News' Rebecca Barry, the Duke also claimed he wanted to take newspaper publishers to court. contributed to “the destruction of relationships” with his family.

"Yeah, it's certainly a central part," Harry said. "But it's a difficult question to answer because anything I say about my family is met with a torrent of abuse from the press. I've made it very clear that this is something that needs to be done.

"It would be nice if we did it as a family. I think, again, from a service standpoint and when you're in a public role, these are the things we should do for the greater good. But I'm doing it for my reasons."

Harry moved his family to California in 2020. The prince and Meghan live in Montecito with their two children, Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three.

He settled his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers in February 2024, after a judge found there had been "extensive" phone hacking by MGN between 2006 and 2011, and "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards