Prince Harry loses court battle over security protection

Prince Harry has lost his court battle against the UK government’s decision to strip him of his publicly-funded security detail at Britain’s High Court.

In February 2020, Harry’s protection was downgraded after he opted to step down as a full-time member of the royal family.

Harry, who is currently the fifth in line to the throne, moved to the United States with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

That meant the UK government provided security on a case-by-case basis.

Harry had argued that the king and his brother Prince William have around-the-clock protection and Ravec, the body responsible for protecting the royal family, was not following its own rules.

But on Friday, Lord Justice David Bean, Lord Justice Andrew Edis and Sir Geoffrey Vos threw out his appeal.

Sir Geoffrey Vos explained that Harry “was in effect stepping in and out of the cohort of protection provided by Ravec”;.

“Outside the UK he was outside the cohort, but when in the UK his security would be considered as appropriate depending on the circumstances,”; he said.

“It was impossible, I said in my judgement that this reasoning was illogical or inappropriate,”; he added.

Harry’s legal team had argued that he “inherited a security risk at birth, for life”;.

They added that he “served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats”;.