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?

Well yes. If someone was threatening you with a knife at a football match, then the police would step in to protect you.

Feel free to start a thread on the sovereign grant

Doesn't bother him going to Columbia, drug capital of the world and all the risks that brings with it. He's also the idiot who bragged about how many taliban he'd killed.
As for being the King's son perhaps he should have thought about that before slagging off his entire family.
I am definitely not a royalist and especially don't like how Charles has behaved but I wouldn't have anything to do with my son if he carried on like Harry.

Also we can presumably judge RAVEC’s judgement by looking at other royals. For example, they have decided that Anne and Edward, despite being working royals who were children of and are now siblings of the monarch, do not need full time security and only need it when at royal events. They’re both fine. As are their spouses and children.
It’s not like RAVEC has a history of getting things wrong by being too lax. We don’t have a string of dead royals who should have had security but had it taken away.
I also think that a group of people who know they will definitely be fired if they get this wrong and something happens are probably more likely to lean towards being over cautious than not.
So with those things in mind, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that they’ve probably judged it correctly.

Really? The Bowes-Lyons were descended from the Careys? I also find that very interesting, with the Catherine Carey/Henry VIII theory. That’s a great fact.

I would be more sympathetic if they had moved on to live a quiet light away from the spotlight. But this comes across when taken with all their other actions they want the benefits of being royals without the responsibility.

I am absolutely not a royalist. I dislike them all intensely. He is the kings SON. The king is madly madly rich mostly because of all of us and our taxes. The king needs to pay for whatever security he wants.

Is " working royal" an oxymoron?

That would lead to a reconciliation and they would all live happily ever after!

The king can’t pay for it either.

Yes

i am sure he could try and put suitable arrangements in place :-)

And pay for them.

That’s the whole point though, no one can buy it. They won’t provide it for money, no matter whose it is.

I’m not sure that Scotland Yard or the met are the only ones to provide suitable security.

but ok. I know armed security in uk is rightly restricted.

No one can buy or pay for met police armed security, not even the King.

In the UK, it is illegal for private close protection operatives, including bodyguards, to carry firearms. The private possession of firearms is banned, and only the police and armed forces are permitted to carry guns. This includes firearms like handguns, as well as other weapons like pepper spray, mace, batons, and tasers

Guns are strictly controlled in the UK I can't see that changing.

Not just restricted, illegal.

Rightly so.

Yep, think she was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s 10th or 11th great grandmother. I believe Princess Diana was also a direct descendant so when Prince William takes the throne, there’ll be double Boleyn bloodline on the throne. To think, Mary’s family outcast her and our current royal family lives on through her. Sorry, historical detail over!!

IBelieveinSomething
The king needs to pay for whatever security he wants.

Unfortunately it would not be possible for King Charles, or anyone else, to pay for what Harry wants, because it is not possible in this country for anyone to buy Harry what he wants. Either Harry is assessed by RAVEC as needing what he wants, or he is not assessed as needing what he wants, and nobody can alter their assessment just by offering them money.

What Harry truly wants is to be equal to his brother.

And that is something no amount of money can buy.

Poor Harry. The Royal Family are such a bunch of bitter cunts. Happy to stand by and allow those little children to be a kidnap risk and do nothing to protect their own flesh and blood. Shame on them.