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Prince Harry on Wednesday lost a legal challenge against the British government over the level of his security protection when he is in the UK, with a High Court judge in London ruling that the decision to remove police protection was not unlawful or irrational...
The 39-year-old, younger son of King Charles III, who relocated with his family to the US after stepping back as a frontline royal, had argued that he was treated wrongly in the governments decision to change the level of his UK taxpayer-funded personal security...
His lawyers told the court that it was unlawful and unfair to take such an approach to his protection while he is in his home country...
The case goes back to February 2020, following a decision by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) delegated by the UK Home Office on security to review the senior royal's security profile...
The UK government had told the court the case should be dismissed because RAVEC was entitled to conclude that Prince Harry's protection should be bespoke and considered on a case-by-case basis given his lack of full-time royal duties in the country...
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