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.”