I’ll be honest, I don’t like what I do know of Harry and Megan- obviously I don’t know them personally but from they way they have presented themselves and their behaviour (I’m talking about that which is known to be accurate ), I cannot respect them.
However, I imagine the family do need security- just as many people in the public eye do. They are not unique in that. However, as far as I know, very few celebrities expect the state to fund their security requirements. I find it utterly galling that Harry and Megan think they should have the tax payer fund theirs. They are private citizens. I assume that they both knew when they ceased to be working members of the royal family that this was one of the consequences- yet still made that decision to step away, as was their right. Why do they then expect that they can ignore the consequences of their choices? They seem to feel rules cannot and should not apply to them. By all means, they should have security but they can pay for it themselves. And if they don’t want to attract media attention, and instead wish to live quiet and private lives, perhaps the best way to achieve this is to stop courting it so avariciously? They don’t because the truth is they want the limelight and they money- they just don’t want any of the downsides of it.
Harry likes to bleat on about the plight of ex-servicemen and women- yet he wants more spent on his security per year than all the rest of this group will likely to have spent on them in their lifetime, rather than pay for it as other families in their situation have to. Only senior working royals have the kind of security he is after, and some of them only get it whilst they are travelling to/from and during their duties. Harry is a hypocrite of the worst order, imo.
Added to that- Harry cites the risk due to his military service. The sheer idiocy, then, of publicly bragging to the entire world in his memoir about killing so many people in Afghanistan is truly astounding. Why, if you are so worried about your safety, and that of your family’s, would you advertise this fact. It is inviting attention, and likely to be from some hostile quarters? Either he is stupid, careless or so entitled as to assume he could do and say whatever he liked and someone else would ensure he was sheltered from the consequences (or pay to protect him from any potential consequences)- it’s absurd, I have family members who are ex-service personnel or current members of the armed forces- every single one of them was fairly disgusted with him regarding this and thought he was being both extremely foolish, and behaving with exceptionally poor taste to frame his military service in this manner. They all accept that taking a life may be required in conflict, but it is not something to publicly celebrate for financial gain (making his book more headline grabbing) or brag about . I know there are rumblings from people who served with him that his time in service was not all that he presents it to be, too. If there is a target on his back because of this, he put it there all by himself and will have to manage the consequences of his actions. Any other ex-service personnel (even those who have some degree of celebrity status) who did the same would have to pay for private security if they wanted it- Harry is a private citizen, so he should too.