Yes I agree that our tax funded security services work well but some people argue that Meghan and Harry were making up the fact that they were targeted. Neil Basu corrected this notion.
And as he said, many of the threats to H and M face came from extreme right wing on-line individuals or groups, I think the race element is too easily overlooked by some.
If you are black or have a black mother, and become well known, that is enough to make some racist haters believe you stand for something. You become a target no matter what.
A slightly different point but it could be argued that hundreds of people from many different walks of life who fall under the intense spotlight of press attention, make mistakes, and suffer a media pile on, end up dead or destroyed by it, particularly if they have underlying mh issues and that is without a random nutter taking it upon themselves to kill them.
Caroline Flack and Jason Arday are recent examples.
The royals can literally afford to rise above comment and remain silent and discreet, because they have lots of lawyers and employees engaged in PR who speak on their behalf through various channels, lots of security staff to help them move about discreetly and separate them from the hoi polloi, and some aristocrats live in quiet obscurity, bluntly, because they have pots of money to enable them to do this.
So it will boil down to whether the press can step back and leave MM alone so she can work and generate some income, which they are going to have to do, if they are not funded for doing royal duties?
In a nutshell, if you are well known, the richer you are, the more private and obscure you can afford to be.
This HIHO thing is a bit of a misnomer imho because the working Royal Family of course get recompensed very well for their charity work in the form of amazing homes, staff, couture clothes, jewellery etc.