The Duke of Sussex arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, for the start of his appeal against a High Court ruling on his legal claim against the Home Office over the level of security he receives while he is in the UK, April 8, 2025
PRINCE HARRY was “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment” when the government downgraded his taxpayer-funded level of security, the Court of Appeal heard today.
The Home Office’s executive committee for the protection of royalty and public figures took the decision in February 2020 after the Duke of Sussex quit as a “working” royal.
Challenging a High Court dismissal of his appeal over the decision, the prince’s barrister Shaheed Fatima KC said that the committee “did not apply its own terms of reference to that decision-making process.”
It failed to get an assessment from an “expert specialist body called the risk management board,” instead coming up with a “different and so-called ‘bespoke process’,” she said, as the prince sat behind her taking notes in court.
Sir James Eadie KC, for the Home Office, said that then-committee chair, Sir Richard Mottram, said an assessment would be “difficult to produce in an effective manner.”
The hearing is due to conclude tommorrow.
