The Duke of Sussex quit royal life six years ago.
Prince Harry
Prince Harry quit royal life in 2020 (Image: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A friend of Prince Harry has said it is “spiteful” not to give the duke security in the UK when he visits his home country, it has been revealed. After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit royal life in 2020, leaving the UK behind and starting a fresh life in America, it was revealed that they would no longer have automatic taxpayer-funded police protection in Britain.
This meant that they would not automatically be entitled to police protection on their visits to Britain. This is something Harry has tried to argue against in court, with the duke losing these battles and instead having to wait for the Government to conclude a full risk assessment for his case.
While Harry has previously argued that he feels the UK is unsafe for his family without police protection, a similar view has been echoed by his friend Alex Rayner, who went to the North Pole with Harry on a charity trek in 2012. Rayner told Richard Eden for The Daily Mail: “Harry is a royal who’s significantly served in the Armed Forces. To ask him to pay for it (security) privately feels a tiny bit spiteful, given that there are other members of the Royal Family who receive it who do far less.”
