Jubilee medal for... Harry, Meghan and Duke
PRINCE Harry, Meghan and Prince Andrew are set to be awarded special Platinum Jubilee medals by the Queen next month.
The commemorative medals are also being presented to frontline staff at the police, fire and emergency services who have completed five years’ service, as a token of thanks. Members of the royal household with one year of qualifying service will receive medals too.
But as with previous jubilees, the Queen will pay privately for medals to be given to members of her ‘wider’ family, both working and non-working.
And this year the non-working number will include Andrew, Harry and Meghan.
The Duke of York was forced to relinquish his remaining royal roles and stop using his HRH title last week as he faces his US sex case as a ‘private citizen’.
Harry and Meghan, who acrimoniously quit as working royals and moved to the US in pursuit of lucrative commercial careers while repeatedly criticising the Royal Family, will also be awarded medals as a matter of course.
A royal source said: ‘In common with previous jubilees, it is likely that wider members of the Royal Family would receive the Platinum Jubilee medal... they are funded privately and are commemorative.’ It is understood that Andrew, Harry and Meghan would be entitled to wear their medals with ‘civilian dress’ if they are invited to an event where the dress code says ‘decorations’.
But the Queen may not be able to award Harry and Meghan’s medals in person.
Harry is threatening to seek a judicial review of a Home Office decision not to allow him to pay for police protection for him and his family while in Britain. Without this security, he feels unable to travel to the UK, an unnamed spokesman said.
The medals will also go to frontline prison and Armed Forces staff, as well as living individual recipients of the George and Victoria cross.