Prince Harry has been branded as “entitled” for challenging the Home Office after they denied him the “rights to automatic police protection in the UK”. The legal challenge was back in the High Court on Tuesday, with Harry’s barrister Shaheed Fatima KC representing him.
Speaking in the courts, Harry’s barrister said that he has “the right to security and safety just like everybody else in the United Kingdom”.
The barrister also claimed that the Home Office, who was represented by Sir James Eadie KC, had not followed “its own written policy” and had also chosen against doing a “risk assessment” on the Duke of Sussex.
Speaking on GB News, royal expert Angela Levin then claimed that Harry “hasn’t quite realised that he’s not on the same level as he was, two, three years ago.”
Host Martin Daubney said that “the word that leaps to mind is entitlement”, with Ms Levin agreeing.
Speaking on the show, Ms Levin said: “What [Harry] wants is [a] top policeman to look after him 24/7, and what the other side want is that he is only protected when he does something to do with the Royal Family, some particular event then he is [protected].
“But if he’s going around seeing friends and making rude noises about the Royal Family, he isn’t protected.
“He can get his own protection and pay for that, which he’s offered to do but he doesn’t want anybody who’s not absolutely at the top.”
Seemingly agreeing with the Home Office, Ms Levin claims that Harry is “not a member of the Royal Family in the same [he once was]” and that “people will come after it”.
Calling this “perfectly reasonable”, she added: “I don’t think he can say he deserves the better intelligence anymore, [you’ve] got to move on.
“I don’t think anyone wants, you know not just for him, but also for Meghan and for the two children.
“They want separate protection officers and that’s going to cost us an enormous amount of money.”
Back in 2020, when he and Meghan stepped down as senior royals, it was decided that he would no longer get automatic police protection in Britain.
In written submissions, Shaheed Fatima KC claimed that the risk that Harry faces “arises from his birth and ongoing status, as the son of HM The King” and that his position “has been – and remains – that he should be given state security in light of the threats/risks he faces.”
Tuesday stood as day one of three in the Harry’s High Court battle, with it due to continue today.
