Harry and Meghan: Agency refuses to hand over photos

A photograph bureau that took pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during what the royals said was a unsafe car pursuit has refused to crook implicit images of the incidental to the couple.

Backgrid told the BBC that they had rejected a request by the couple's ineligible squad to stock each footage taken during Tuesday's pursuit successful New York City.

The agency's lawyers said Americans had agelong agone rejected "royal prerogative".

The BBC has not independently verified the petition from the Sussex ineligible team.

Conflicting accounts of what Harry and Meghan's spokesperson described arsenic a "near catastrophic car chase" person emerged since the incidental was made nationalist connected Wednesday.

New York constabulary said "numerous photographers" had made the couple's travel connected Tuesday evening "challenging", but added determination had been "no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, oregon arrests".

A taxi operator who concisely drove them suggested their spokesperson's relationship was "exaggerated", portion immoderate photographers progressive person denied parts of it.

Backgrid, an amusement representation agency, said connected Thursday it had received a missive from the Sussexes' ineligible squad saying: "We hereby request that Backgrid instantly supply america with copies of each photos, videos, and/or films taken past nighttime by the freelance photographers aft the mates near their lawsuit and implicit the adjacent respective hours."

The BBC has contacted the Sussexes for comment.

The bureau said it had replied successful a letter: "In America, arsenic I'm definite you know, spot belongs to the proprietor of it: Third parties cannot conscionable request it beryllium fixed to them, arsenic possibly Kings tin do.

"Perhaps you should beryllium down with your lawsuit and counsel them that his English rules of royal prerogative to request that the citizenry manus implicit their spot to the Crown were rejected by this state agelong ago.

"We basal by our founding fathers."

The Sussexes' spokesperson said connected Wednesday that the paparazzi had "relentlessly pursed" the mates done Manhattan for astir 2 aft they near an awards ceremonial connected Tuesday night, resulting successful "multiple adjacent collisions".

Backgrid said astatine the clip it was investigating the behaviour of 4 freelance photographers progressive successful taking images of the Sussexes, adjacent arsenic the bureau disputed the couple's characterisation of the incident.

The photographers felt the mates were ne'er successful "immediate information astatine immoderate point", according to the agency.