Prince Harry loses challenge to pay for police protection in UK

Prince Harry has mislaid a ineligible situation implicit his bid to beryllium allowed to marque backstage payments for constabulary protection.

His lawyers wanted a judicial reappraisal of the rejection of his connection to wage for extortion successful the UK, aft his information arrangements changed erstwhile the prince stopped being a "working royal".

But a justice has ruled not to springiness the spell up for specified a hearing.

Home Office lawyers had opposed the thought of allowing affluent radical to "buy" information from the police.

This ruling followed a one-day tribunal proceeding successful London past week.

Since past the Duke and Duchess of Sussex person been progressive successful what their spokesperson described arsenic a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi successful New York.

But astatine the High Court past week, lawyers for Prince Harry had challenged the determination to cull his backstage backing for constabulary extortion for himself and his household erstwhile visiting the UK.

When Prince Harry stepped down from being a "working royal" successful 2020 it meant helium nary longer had entree to his erstwhile level of security.

But Prince Harry challenged however this determination was reached by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures - known arsenic Ravec - which covers information for high-profile figures, including elder royals.

"Ravec has exceeded its authority, its power, due to the fact that it doesn't person the powerfulness to marque this determination successful the archetypal place," Prince Harry's lawyers had told the court.

They argued that determination were provisions successful authorities allowing for outgo for "special constabulary services" and arsenic specified "payment for policing is not inconsistent with the nationalist involvement oregon nationalist assurance successful the Metropolitan Police Service".

But lawyers for the Home Office said the benignant of extortion nether discussion, which could mean "specialist officers arsenic bodyguards", was not the aforesaid arsenic backing for other policing for shot matches.

A barrister for the Metropolitan Police argued that it would beryllium unreasonable to exposure officers to information due to the fact that of "payment of a interest by a backstage individual".

The Home Office ineligible squad said the Ravec committee had unanimously rejected the connection of backstage outgo and that it was a substance of argumentation to reason the thought that a "wealthy idiosyncratic should beryllium permitted to 'buy' protective security".

The Home Office said determination was nary request for the Ravec committee to let Prince Harry to marque representations to them and determination was small imaginable of the determination being changed.

"Given the quality of the arguments present precocious by the claimant, the tribunal tin beryllium assured that specified representations would person been highly apt to person made nary important quality successful immoderate event," the Home Office's lawyers told the court.

But helium has present mislaid successful his situation implicit wanting to wage privately for information costs, which helium had antecedently said was "not to enforce connected the taxpayer".