A close pal of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has hinted that the royal couple will now have to make a big life decision following their near-car crash in New York City earlier this week.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were relentlessly followed by paparazzi after they attended the Women of Vision awards ceremony along with Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland on Tuesday evening, the Mirror reports.Royal writer Carolyn Durand, who co-wrote Finding Freedom with Omid Scobie said that Harry and Meghan are "chased all the time" and added that after his mother's tragic death, Harry's priority is to protect his family.
The author claimed that the couple need to find the right balance between whether they want privacy and how to cope with photographers chasing after them.She told Sky News: "The Duke and Duchess want to create a compromise where they can live a quieter life in California, but still highlight the issues that are important to both of them.
And I think that that's laudable, certainly."They'll have to make a determination about what the balance is: if they really want that life of privacy and how you balance that with people chasing you on the streets of New York or LA or London."The Editor's Code of Conduct in the UK forbids the use of paparazzi pictures that are taken during any kind of pursuit, meaning that no such incident as the one that was claimed to have happened in New York on Tuesday could happen in the UK.
After Princess Diana's death in Paris in 1997, news organisations in the UK stopped publishing photographs that were not commissioned and changed the editors' code of practice to prevent the publication of paparazzi photos involving any kind of pursuit.Instead, the royal family often provide their own official
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