Prince Harry just can’t seem to catch a break. The renegade royal this morning lost his High Court legal challenge against the British government over the level of his security protection provided when he is in the UK. It comes after he quit being a ‘working royal’ back in February 2020, a decision that led to him being accorded a lesser degree of security in line with his reduced status.
The dilettante Duke though, did not take this decision well. First, he launched a legal bid to be allowed to make private payments for police protection when he was visiting the UK. Having lost that, he then launched a second initiative based on ‘unlawful and unfair’ treatment. The Home Office disagreed, insisting to the High Court that Prince Harry will still have publicly-funded police security, but that these will be ‘bespoke arrangements, specifically tailored to him’, rather than the automatic security provided for full-time working royals.
And today, the court accepted that there had not been any unlawfulness in reaching the decision to downgrade Prince Harry’s security status, and that any departure from policy was justified. It concluded that the decision was not irrational, nor marred by procedural unfairness.
Commiserations to Hazza on being the only person to launch an unsuccessful legal challenge against the Home Office…
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