By Gabriel Princewill-
The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, has written to the Home Secretary asking, calling for intervention of his security arrangements when in the UK.
The duke said the Court of Appeal’s decision meant it is now “impossible” for him to bring Meghan and their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet back to the UK safely. The upshot of his letter is that his wife and children would no longer be coming to the UK, unless the decision is overturned. Unless ofcourse, the duke by the measurement of his own assessment, plans to risk the safety of his family.
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Harry’s letter to Shabana Mahmood came shortly after her appointment to the role, and she submitted a formal request for a risk assessment to the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec), overseen by the Home Office, a source close to the duke said.
The Telegraph reported that during Harry’s last visit to the UK in September, a “known stalker” believed to have been suffering with mental health issues, came “within feet” of the dule on two occasions- once through a “secure zone” at a central London hotel at which the Duke was attending the WellChild Awards on Sept 9, then two days later, she was spotted within a stone’s throw of the Duke at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in west London, The Telegraph reported
The woman entered a “secure zone” at a central London hotel where the duke was attending the WellChild Awards on 9 September and was spotted two days later near Harry at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in west London, the paper said.
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The duke lost an appeal in May in which he challenged the dismissal of his High Court claim against the Home Office over the decision of Ravec that he should receive a different degree of taxpayer-funded protection when in the country.
After losing the Court of Appeal challenge, the duke said in a TV interview he “can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK”. In another interview, he described the Court Of Appeal decision as ‘an establishment stitch up’.
He once told the BBC he would ask then-home secretary Yvette Cooper to carefully examine his application, stating that the royal family’s power over security means it “can be used to control” family members.
The Master of the Rolls said in his judgment that as powerful and moving as the Duke of Sussex’s evidence was, having studied the detail of the extensive documentation, he could not say that the
Duke’s sense of grievance translated into a legal argument for the challenge to RAVEC’s decision.
He said: ”The legal question, indeed the only question, for the court was whether Sir Richard had failed to follow RAVEC’s policy without good reason. He said something may indeed have gone wrong, in that an unintended consequence of his decision to step back from Royal duties and spend the majority of his time abroad has been that he has been provided with a more bespoke, and generally lesser, level of protection than when he was in the UK that did not, of itself, give rise to a legal complaint”.
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