Prince Harry needed ‘flexible’ security for UK visits, court told

TDT | London

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Lawyers for the UK government yesterday defended a decision to cut back Prince Harry’s security after he stepped back from royal life, during the second day of his high-profile appeal.

Harry was back in the courtroom in London as the interior ministry’s legal team responded to his challenge of its decision to downgrade his publicly funded police protection during trips to the UK.

The 40-year-old prince has been fighting to have his security in Britain restored to the same high level it was before he and his wife, Meghan, split from the royal family in 2020 and dramatically moved to live in self-imposed exile in America.

Harry, who is formally known as the Duke of Sussex, is no longer considered a working royal and the government decided he would not receive the “same degree” of protection as before.

In the Court of Appeal on Wednesday, lawyer James Eadie representing the Home Office defended the “bespoke”