No automatic police escort for the rebellious Prince Harry and his family during their stays in the United Kingdom.
This was confirmed today by a judge of the High Court of London, rejecting the appeal presented at the time by the lawyers of the second son of King Charles III and the late Lady Diana against the decision of the British Home Office to deny it to him following the abandonment of the his role as an "active" senior member of the royal family imposed after the traumatic breakup of 2020 and the move with his wife Meghan to America.
The verdict follows a previous judicial ruling, which had also denied Harry the possibility of paying the police out of his own pocket to guarantee "family safety" at home.
And he agrees with the ministry, according to which the bodies are now required to ensure the Dukes of Sussex - given their current status - public protection only from time to time and depending on their own assessments of any needs.
In his ruling today - the last act of a proceeding which took place in numerous hearings, some in the presence of the rebel prince himself - the High Court judge in charge of the case does not go into the merits of the reasons invoked by Harry's lawyers.
But he limits himself to decreeing that the decision of the Home Office, the Home Office, "was not irrational", nor tainted by a "manifest injustice".
The hearing on this matter took place largely behind closed doors, to guarantee the confidentiality of the confidential information on safety that the parties had to explain.
Harry, in his most recent trips to the Kingdom (including the last quick visit to his father a few hours after being informed of the cancer diagnosed at the beginning of February in the 75-year-old King Charles) was protected by a private escort paid for by himself.
The issue of security, from various possible threats, but also from intrusions attributed to British tabloids and paparazzi, is a very sensitive issue for the cadet prince, traumatized since childhood by the affair of his mother Diana (with whom he shares many traits of character), culminating in the tragic fatal accident in the Alma tunnel, in Paris, in 1997, fleeing from a last nocturnal chase by hordes of photographers.
In parallel with this appeal, the Duke of Sussex is carrying out a sort of legal crusade against the major and most sensationalist newspapers of the British popular press (regularly hostile towards him and his wife Meghan).
A campaign in which he has already obtained, on the contrary, some significant judicial victories before the courts of the Kingdom.
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