Prince Harry arrived in London on Sunday ahead of his ongoing legal dispute over reduced UK security. The Duke of Sussex has been attending hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice this week, where he is appealing the decision to remove his right to automatic high-level police protection. After stepping down as a working member of the royal family in 2020, his police protection while in the UK was revoked. However, the Duke has been fighting to restore the same high-level of security, and is currently challenging a 2024 decision to dismiss the case.
During the hearings, Harry's barrister Shaheed Fatima KC has claimed that Harry and Meghan were 'forced to step back' from royal life five years ago, adding in her closing remarks: "There is a person sitting behind me whose safety, whose security and whose life is at stake. There is a person sitting behind me who has been told that he is getting a special, bespoke process, when he knows and has experienced a process that is manifestly inferior in every respect. His presence here, and throughout this appeal, is a potent illustration, were one needed, of how much this appeal means to him and his family." (per BBC).
