Why can’t Harry just pay for his own private security?

[jennylamb1]

Don’t get it. He says that he can’t ever visit the UK again because his security won’t be provided. Loads of celebrities and high profile business people pay for their own security, why should tax payers pay for his security when he isn’t a working royal anymore?

I think it's less to do with the cost and more to do with intelligence...the UK intelligence services won't be sharing information with his private security firm and he can't just pay for UK police protection which would have information from intelligence services, who would know what type of threat to look out for. Regardless of how you feel about him and his history, everyone deserves to feel safe in their home country.

So funny to imagine King Charles sending Archie and Lillibet vouchers for Go Ape.

I was about to say, this is one of the funnier wrong thread posts I've seen on here!

What I find interesting about the Catherine Carey theory being the daughter of Henry and Mary Boleyn is that she was related to Elizabeth through her mother’s side, which means IF Catherine was Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth II was the first direct descendant of Henry VIII since Elizabeth I and that only came about because of her uncle abdicating. It fascinates me to an embarrassing degree 🤣

I don't think a single individual really counts as a "class"; he is a single individual.

To put what I wrote another way, for the hard of thinking, Harry wants to have won the marathon in the same time as his elder brother even though he has not bothered to run in it for the past five years, and be deemed to have crossed the finishing line ahead of the rest of his family who have been slogging along in that race while he was off somewhere else publishing probably untrue and certainly unpleasant accusations against them.

Harry is 40 years old, lives in the USA and has considerable personal wealth if his own - not least the tens of millions made from selling, amongst others, very personal private details about his father and attacking his wife. Harry is capable of paying for his own security in America and will receive security whenever he comes to the UK at the tax payers expense - so long as he gives reasonable notice.

They'll be made on a case by case basis, ie they might not always be provided with any security. I'm not defending him, I don't believe royals are any more important than anyone else.

I would ask people, when our country is struggling with lack of funds to the point the government is stripping funds from pensioners and those with disabilities, why they think a multimillionaire prince who quit his job and moved to the USA deserves the extra funding from already struggling taxpayers?
do you consider him more deserving?
because what he really wants is 24/7 armed security with outriders , everywhere he goes including in other countries ( the clue is the fact he boldly claimed Charles had told other countries not to provide security!)
this will cost a very large amount of money that has to come from somewhere!
yep we would have to pay , if you think this won’t affect you then you are wrong.

Why did Taylor Swift get police protection?

Are American secret service agents allowed to carry arms when president etc visit?

Which is why he, his wife and his children will receive appropriate intelligence- informed police protection whenever he comes here.

He is obviously safe, so security is perfectly good.

Agreed. Thought it was the cost of a one of visit with level 2 security.

Sell more jam and crappy cookie mix maybe?

Harry looks very much like Philip when they were similar ages.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3882024/Photo-Prince-Philip-1957-bears-striking-resemblance-Harry.html

Sorry tried to delete! 😂 Shouldn’t post abd juggle the kids at the same time! 🙈

Because their was a significant threat, there was a serious terrorist threat a few days prior at her concert which had to be cancelled.

No. Councils contribute to the cost of policing football matches. The clubs contribute nothing. Ergo, the clubs keep the revenue they make and the taxpayer funds the policing.

Why did Taylor Swift get police protection?

Because she was assessed to be at risk.

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It does beg the question that if at the end of the day, Harry feels insafe and it’s causing division and with astronomical wealth - why doesn’t Charles pay up,

Pay for what, and to whom, though? In this country the monarch can no more buy armed police to look out for his son than can Mr Joe Bloggs of Street Avenue, Townham, Countyshire.

King Charles III has offered what it is in his power to offer: accommodation in a Royal residence, with Royal security. Harry apparently turned this down and preferred to stay in a hotel.

Okay. So anyone can get police protection if it's been assessed that there's a risk to life?

If he was not provided with security that would be because the very experienced security experts, after considering all the evidence including secret intelligence, decided there was no risk. If that was the case then why should we pay for it?

Yes. The taxpayer paid for Salman Rushdie's security for years.

Taylor Swift had had a very credible threat made against her whilst in Vienna (I think??)
Bear in mind that anyone planning an attack at one of her concerts would have put many British citizens also at risk.

He said he would pay for it and he was told no.

And you bang on baout him and taxpayers money but never me tion why the hell the sovereign grant keeps going up when they have slimmed down the monarchy and number of things they do. Not to then mention the lack of tra sparency around all the finances. But hey how lets just moan about Harry

Yes, it’s the tip of the iceberg of what we pay to keep the elite alive so we can continue paying for them to be alive. In luxury.

Yes, “normal” people just have to get on with it.