Prince Harrys life at stake after removal of taxpayer-funded UK police protection, court hears

Prince Harry’s “life is at stake,” his lawyer warned in a London courtroom on the final day of an appeal on Wednesday, regarding his security detail in the country. “One mustn’t forget the human dimension to this case.There is a person sitting behind me whose safety, whose security and whose life is at stake,” the Duke of Sussex’s attorney, Shaheed Fatima, said at the Royal Courts of Justice in an appeal over Britain’s Home Office decision against giving the royal the highest level of security protection when he is in the United Kingdom, according to The Independent. She continued, “There’s a person sitting behind me who’s been told he’s getting a special bespoke process when he knows and has experienced a process that is manifestly inferior.”In February of last year, the 40-year-old lost a legal challenge over the government’s decision to take away his automatic right to high-level police protection after he stepped down as a senior royal in 2020. The Home Office committee had ruled there was “no basis for publicly funded security support for the duke and duchess within Great Britain.”In February 2024, a High Court ruled that a government panel’s decision to provide Harry with “bespoke” security on an as-needed basis was not unlawful, irrational or unjustified.His lawyer said Harry’s attendance in court “is a potent illustration of how much this appeal means to him and his family.” The royal rarely appears at his court proceedings. On Tuesday, his lawyers told the court that Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “felt forced to step back from the role of full-time official working members of The Royal Family as they considered they were not being protected by the institution,” Sky News reported.His lawyers added that he and Markle wanted to continue “their duties in support of the late Queen as privately funded members of The Royal Family.”Harry and Markle’s situation “does not appear to have been discussed at...