Prince Harry's 'Life is at Stake,' Lawyer Warns
Britain's Home Office has ruled against giving Prince Harry the highest level of security protection when he is in the United Kingdom after he stepped down from as a senior royal in 2020. His lawyer is now arguing that the decision puts his life in danger.
In February of last year, Prince Harry lost a legal challenge over the government’s decision to take away his automatic right to high-level police protection following his decision to step down as a senior royal.
Britain's Home Office found "no basis for publicly funded security support for the duke and duchess within Great Britain."
In an appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice, the Duke of Sussex's attorney, Shaheed Fatima argued that this decision not to give Prince Harry high-level security puts his life in danger when he is in the United Kingdom.
"One mustn't forget the human dimension to this case. There is a person sitting behind me whose safety, whose security and whose life is at stake," Fatima said, according to The Independent.
"There’s a person sitting behind me who's been told he’s getting a special bespoke process when he knows and has experienced a process that is manifestly inferior," she continued.
A government lawyer, meanwhile, spoke out against Prince Harry's appeal.
"The appeal is fairly to be characterized in the same way," government lawyer James Eadie said on Tuesday. "It involves a continued failure to see the wood for the trees, advancing propositions available only by reading small parts of the evidence, and now the judgment, out of context and ignoring the totality of the picture."
A formal, written decision on the matter is expected at a later date. We'll have to see whether or not Harry wins his appeal.