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Penuel Joseph Ares

Harry and Meghan Urged To Get State-Funded Security by Ex-Royal Protection Officer After UK Return

Ex-royal officer urges state-funded UK security for Harry and Meghan (Credit: Office of the Governor-General/Wikimedia Commons)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should have their security in Britain financed directly by the state, according to a former senior royal protection officer.

Ex-bodyguard Scott Hamer argued that specialist police units offer intelligence-gathering, firearms capability and inter-agency coordination that no private firm can replicate, and urged that the scale of the couple's global profile warranted state involvement.

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