Harry does not need a high level of security- he just wants it.
He has the insane idea that Meghan will die the same way his mother did.
The paparazzi don’t exsist in the same way anymore and if Meghan doesn’t get in a car driven by a drunk & not put her seatbelt on she will be fine,
Harry &Meghan had full time MET armed police protection when they were working royals who lived here.
When they left the Royal family, their home and the UK they lost the right to that level of security.
We have reciprocal agreements with other countries that when a high ranking royal or the prime minister visit there they take their own police security with them to guard them. So when the king did his state visit to America he took his own teams with him.They are armed and protect him. Theyhave access to intelligence. And it works the other way -when Macron, or The King of Jordan or POTUS come here they bring their own armed security to protect their ‘principles’ while they are here for a short time.
So when Harry & Meghan left they knew they would not retain their PPO as there is no mechanism where we can have British Police officers , armed and protecting someone who LIVES in a different country. It wouldn’t be safe for the PPO and we cannot risk our police. It wouldn’t also be prohibitively expensive to have 4 teams of several police officers living in the USA, flying back etc. It simply cannot be done -our police officers cannot be full time police in the USA.
If Barak Obama decided he wanted to live here he would have to let go of his Secret Service detail as they would not be allowed to live here &go all over the place carrying guns.
The current arrangement is that Harry needs to give 28days notice and a review will be done of his current level of danger (have MI5/6 received any credible threats etc) to decide what level of security he needs. If he stayed at a royal residence -ie Buckingham palace - he would whilst there be protected in the same way the monarch is while there. The palace (like Windsor) has the armed military guarding it 168 hrs per week 52 weeks of the year.
Harry wants an automatic team of Met police on hand to take him round the uk wherever he wants to go guarding him. That’s not feasible though. We don’t have loads of ‘spare’ armed police hanging round waiting for Harry. He is asked to give 28days notice so they can check his current threat level. IF the threat level is deemed high he will get a team - leave would be cancelled, overtime offered,shifts altered -hence the need for 28days notice. But the Home Office (who decide who does and does not receive automatic protection) do not deem Harry at risk atm -and frankly this should pkease him. The Home office and RAVEC hardly want to have somone killed do they? So of course if it were deemed necessary Harry et al would get protection.
But that’s not good enough for Harry. He WANTS it because William has it and Harrystill thinks he is veryvery important.
IF he was truly simply bothered about being safe he wouldn’t announce his plans days or weeks in advance. He would arrive without fanfare, stay at BP -his children could use the pool and gardens as safe as houses - andgowhere he wanted to without any bother. He could bring his own team of security -unarmed - to protect him just like every other celebrity.
Lewis Hamilton -who has received awful threats - just has security. As does Tom Cruise. Prince Edward gets the tube around London -without security!! As do his children! Beatrice & Eugenie are often seen round Kensington shopping &lunching. No security.
Harry is I believe getting low on funds. His security costs an estimated $3 million a year. He wants to be declared a PPI so he gets automatic armed security provided by the country he is in -however this status is reserved for heads of state,prime ministers, presidents, foreign secretaries and the highest level diplomats (like ambassador to the United States)while theyare in that position -so once Starmer resigns he will no longer hve that status, the next PM will.
Harrywants this as itwill save him millions -but he will never get it as he isn’t important enough and no matter how much he shouts that he is andthe sausage squad tell me on twitter how important Harry & Meghan are it’s not going to happen.
That was longer that I thought it would be when i decided to reply.
Anyway, hope that explains it. 😀