'Life at stake' in Duke of Sussex security challenge, court is told

Prince Harry's "safety, security and life" are at stake in his legal challenge to the level of security he receives in the UK, a court was told.

The Duke of Sussex, 40, lost a previous challenge in February 2024 against a decision to remove his right to automatic high-level police protection after he quit as a senior royal in 2020.

Speaking at the conclusion of a two-day hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, his barrister Shaheed Fatima KC said: "One mustn't forget the human dimension to this case. There is a person sitting behind me whose safety, whose security, whose life is at stake.

"There is a person sitting behind me who is being told he's getting a special bespoke process when he knows and has experience a process that is manifestly inferior in every respect."

Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Home Office, said experts, including the chair of Ravec and the chair of the risk management board (RMB), had decided Harry's "unique circumstances" required a "bespoke approach".

The prince would be "better served" by this approach and the decision did not mean "personal security of the kind previously provided would under no circumstances be provided", he told the court.

The decision of the court will be delivered in writing at a later date.

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