Prince Harry Prince Harry fights to pay for UK police protection
London/UNI: Prince Harry has sought a judicial review after he was refused by the Home Office to allow him to personally pay for the police protection in the United Kingdom.
The Duke of Sussex, who lives in the US' California, had urged for the protection in the UK as his private security team does not have adequate jurisdiction abroad.
He had lost his tax-payer funded police security after he stepped back from royal duties in 2020.
BBC quoted Prince Harry as saying that he and his family had been "unable to return to his home" as they will be in danger.
Harry wants to bring his son Archie and baby daughter Lilibet to visit from the US, but he and his family are “unable to return to his home” because it is too dangerous, The Guardian quoted a legal representative as saying.
Prince Harry had filed an application for a judicial review in September after a security incident in July last year when his car was chased by photographers as he left a charity event in London.
According to a legal representative for the Duke, the claim was filed "to challenge the decision-making behind the security procedures, in the hopes that this could be re-evaluated for the obvious and necessary protection required".
He wants to personally fund the police protection so as "not to impose on the taxpayer", they added.
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