The judge dealt a crushing blow. “I’m devastated,” Prince Harry told the BBC on May 2, shortly after losing his appeal in a British court to reinstate taxpayer-funded protection for him and his family. And he placed the blame squarely on his father, King Charles.

“Ultimately, this whole thing could be resolved through him. I thought with all the disagreements, the one thing I could rely on was my family keeping me safe,” Harry said. “And not only did they decide to remove my security in the U.K., but they also signaled to every single government around the world not to protect us.”

As a result, Harry lamented, he can never safely go home again. “I can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point,” he said. And that’s unlikely to change following his explosive claims.

“Harry’s latest interview has made things a whole lot worse,” royal commentator Jennie Bond tells exclusively In Touch. “It’s incredibly sad, but at the moment, I don’t see any prospect of Harry mending bridges with either his father or his brother.”

Prince Harry Is Pointing Fingers Amid Drama With Prince William and King Charles

And yet Harry insisted he’s finally ready to make peace. “I can forgive my family’s involvement, my father, my brother, my stepmother … for so many things that have happened. I have moved past that,” the prince — who had previously demanded apologies from the royals for their treatment of him and his wife, Meghan Markle, leading up to their 2020 “Megxit” — told the BBC. “What I am struggling to forgive is that a decision that was made in 2020 is knowingly putting me and my family in harm’s way.”

The Firm, led by his father, tried to use security as “leverage” to get them to stay, he alleged. “But once they realized that wasn’t going to work, that [we] are happier outside of the institution, please just look at the facts,” Harry, 40, said. “If anything was to happen to me, my wife or my father’s grandchildren, look where the responsibility lies.”

The prince always worries about reliving the tragic fate that befell his late mother, Princess Diana, he said, before ominously adding, “Through this disclosure process, I’ve discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark.”

The palace has insisted their — and Charles’ — hands were tied.

“All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion,” his reps said in a statement.

Harry challenged that assertion, noting that the king, 76, has a representative on the committee that made the decision to remove his security after he stepped back from his royal duties. As the fifth person in line to the throne, Harry was born into his worldwide fame, and the risks don’t just go away because he’s not a working royal, he argued: “I will never be seen as a private citizen.”

Though he refused to divulge his exact safety concerns due to national security issues, Harry noted that one Al-Qaeda terrorist plot against his family had already been thwarted.

“The threats and risks [to the Sussexes] may even increase for various reasons,” security expert Richard Aitch exclusively tells In Touch, calling the situation “an unprecedented quagmire,” because it would be “incomprehensible” that the U.K. taxpayer would ultimately foot the bill to protect Harry and Meghan when they have their own commercial ventures. (Harry claimed that bill was around $2 million a year, far less than the $25 million that had been reported, a figure Aitch also calls “excessive.”)

And Harry’s offer to pay the bill himself was also rejected. Why is private security inadequate, when it seems to work for the Sussexes in California? Part of the issue involves weapons laws. Unlike in the U.K., private security personnel in the U.S. “can meet the immediate armed threat like for like,” Aitch, author of the book Close Protection, tells In Touch, though he adds that there is still a “huge advantage” to having government-backed protection officers, who have access to “the whole host of intelligence flows from diverse agencies.”

Prince Harry Says It’s Likely He Won’t Bring His Family Back to the U.K.

Harry told the BBC that he would not continue to fight the court’s decision. “I don’t want any battles to continue,” he said, adding that “it’s quite sad” that he can’t show his children, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4, his homeland.

The only way they can safely visit is if they are invited by the king, who would then provide them with his own protection. “There is a lot of control in my father’s hands,” Harry said.

Why hasn’t Charles extended an invitation? Aitch says the impasse is “due to family issues, as opposed to ones of a security nature.”

Despite the “great heartache” he’s suffering by not seeing his grandchildren, Bond tells In Touch, the king has refused to welcome his son back into the fold. “The basic issue is trust. Charles does not feel he can trust Harry to keep private conversations private.”

Harry acknowledged he burned some bridges.

“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. They will never forgive me for lots of things. But I would love reconciliation with my family,” he told the BBC, referencing Charles’ ongoing cancer battle. “Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has — he won’t speak to me because of this security stuff — but it would be nice to reconcile. If they don’t want to, that’s entirely up to them.”