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?

Ahhh, Donald Trump. Of course.

I think the world looks down on the UK for how they have treated Harry.

it’s not the world who will be paying for his security so I could not care less that the world looks down on the U.K.
which I don’t believe to be true for a single moment.

No, but equally they don’t have people sitting there twiddling their thumbs waiting a call from Harry. If he doesn’t give notice then they have to drag several officers back from rest days, leave or leave someone else less well protected. 28 days allows them to plan rotas etc,

😂

Right they have a selection of one person over at Scotland Yard.

Why does he need to have a choice of people to send his email to? It would just confuse matters to blur responsibilities in that way.

Do you make jam, @Lavenderfarmcottage ?

Who told you that? 😂

This?

Strange how chance can change your life. A friend of mine grew up in NYC. Her mother worked in the World Trade Centre. She extended her maternity leave by one day. Everyone else on her floor died. Her husband (my friend's father) was frantic, he thought that his wife was supposed to be in work that day.

King Charles is the head of the Catholic church?? He is moonlighting from his job as British monarch? An undercover pope. Wonder if the Vatican knows.@Lavenderfarmcottage you need to go public with this. It's very worrying. Especially as he is deceitfully masquerading as a Protestant

As the head of the Catholic Church

Working through the thread and I'm sure it's been said but... 😂

You threw him to the circus the minute he was born

Clown still clowning.

this is the royal family YOU want from birth in your country

Not all of us.

You don’t just expect the royals to work, you expect them to dance and live in the public eye and create entertainment for you.

Any and all are free to walk away at any time. In the overwhelming main they don't. If the life's so awful you really have to wonder why.

Wonder if the Vatican knows

White smoke imminent ☕

😂😂

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@Lavenderfarmcottage

You don’t just expect the royals to work, you expect them to dance and live in the public eye and create entertainment for you.

Edward VIII abdicated. He walked away. Harry could have gone off to California, lived in Montecito, bringing up the children and keeping the chickens, as an ordinary citizen and keeping his mouth shut, given they wanted “privacy”. They would have faded out of people’s memories. I had no idea where Gene Hackman, one of the most highly regarded American actors of his generation, was living after he retired from films, until his unfortunate death!

Instead, M & H have given world famous interviews, Harry’s written a highly publicised book, and Harry shot his mouth off, about his time in the armed forces. Some of that risk, Harry has ramped up himself, through ill thought out public statements.

It looks like he is trying to get his Internationally Protection Person status
back. That would mean local authorities/British protection would protect him and his family anywhere in the world continually without him having to pay anything. He lost that protection at Megxit.

‘International Protected Persons’ are defined by a UN convention and Act of Parliament as:

(a)a person who at the time of the alleged offence is a Head of State, a member of a body which performs the functions of Head of State under the constitution of the State, a Head of Government or a Minister for Foreign Affairs and is outside the territory of the State in which he holds office;
(b)a person who at the time of the alleged offence is a representative or an offical of a State or an offical or agent of an international organisation of an intergovernmental character, is entitled under international law to special protection from attack on his person, freedom or dignity and does not fall within the preceding paragraph;
(c)a person who at the time of the alleged offence is a member of the family of another person mentioned in either of the preceding paragraphs and—
(i)if the other person is mentioned in paragraph (a) above, is accompanying him,
(ii)if the other person is mentioned in paragraph (b) above, is a member of his household

Harry does not fit within this definition as he is not a head of state nor a representative of the state. As I mentioned, this is defined by international UN convention; it is not something that can be adjusted to include Harry. Though this might explain why he feels he is protected if invited by his family - IPP status extends to family members accompanying IPP.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/17

It really does sometimes feel as if Harry has a size twelve ego in a size three soul.

Brilliant 🤌👍

She's a member of the Privy Council. She was in office long enough to be briefed on many things that may be of interest to the Russians.

I suspect all PMs get intelligence briefings pretty much the moment they step through the doors at Number 10; they have to be able to make decisions on such matters immediately should the need arise.

Absolutely. It's completely idiotic to pretend anyone who's been PM doesn't have information that could compromise all of us.

Quite apart from what she knew from the jobs she did before she was PM.

Nope just a typo/mistake as I was writing very early morning overseas and tired. I meant head of the COE.

Because he didn’t ask to be born into the Royal family.