To think if "Prince" Harry wants 5m a year of taxpayer money he needs to start twerking for pennies as a working royal again

[CurdinHenry]

Otherwise he can fund it himself or stay in the US?

Don’t be ridiculous. Diana wasn’t thrown to the wolves. She didn’t want the security and relied on Al Fayed when she was in Paris on that fateful
trip. She also died become was being driven by a drunk driver and wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. As for Harry, being an adult sometimes means you have to live with the consequences of your actions. He has caused this with his words and deeds and now he has to live with the repercussions.

The irony is, Harry and Meghan could probably have done an awful lot to improve the reputation of the Royal Family. He certainly has more than a touch of his mother in that way. I’m not sure if there is ever a world where he goes back, or if his reputation is too badly damaged now, but it does seem like him being back in the fold would be the best solution for the Royal Family. Not sure it would be for Harry, though.

I mean as I say I am not a fan. He has behaved appallingly and I wish he'd stay in the US but he is the king's son and if anything happened to him we'd never hear the end of it.

We never hear the end of it anyway - surely this belongs in the royal family theme ?

Here's where the figure of £5million comes from - www.facebook.com/GMB/videos/should-taxpayers-foot-the-5m-bill-for-prince-harrys-securitya-royal-biographer-h/1932111324095695/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/20/harry-and-meghan-security-funding-on-uk-return-is-private-matter-burnham-says

She was thrown to the wolves by the family long before she was with Al Fayed. It is not that she didn’t want the security, it was that she didn’t want a security team who had to report to the Royal Household. She didn’t want that because this had been her life for a long time and was a large part of why she was leaving the family. The single incidence of her death was due to a culmination of events leading her to be hounded by the press at every turn. It was this she was never protected from, and that is exactly what Harry experienced too. Which actions has he taken that are different to his mothers, that lead to the consequence of him being hated and reviled where she wasn’t?

That’s not a confirmation of A) how the figure is calculated and B) that the taxpayers will be paying it.

So the answer is we don't know, and will have to wait for further developments.

That’s your opinion only. Harry certainly wasn’t thrown to the wolves All of this is of his own making and maybe you should allow him to face consequences of his actions. He’s a 40 year old man’s for heavens sake.l, it about time he grew up.

There are plenty of high profile people in Britain living perfectly wonderful lives without armed or taxpayer funded security. He also benefits from security threat monitoring at the taxpayer expense. His mother’s unfortunate demise was the result of a highly unlikely set of circumstances colliding, including her own paranoia, a drunk driver, her failure to wear a seatbelt and the the behaviour of the then Press, which has long since changed. It’s simply not a consideration when it comes to spending public money today.

The UK doesn’t have a serious problem with gun crime like the US so the private security over here is fine for their needs.

But the Uk doesn’t have the same level of gun crime as the US so private protection officers are trained in different ways to protect their clients. People don’t routinely own or carry guns he doesn’t have the same risk.

That’s more than a tad ridiculous. Harry is hardly going around on a push bike carrying a Nokia and worried about opposing gang members is he? (Though he may feel that way reading threads like this).
The issue isn’t gun crime.
The standard security you’re refere to is a) unarmed and b) not in posession of the well-evidenced & credible threats to Harry & his family. This is updated frequently and therefore tightens security as required, though majority of Joe Public would never know.
If having this makes his return more comfortable & means his wife & kids can move freely I cannot understand why this is of bother to anybody here. It’s a drop in the ocean in the big picture of things seriously

Because that money should be going to protect Joe Public that’s why. Women can’t safely walk home at night but where’s the police funding to protect them/us. I actually despair with some of these posts where people think the Sussexes are far more important than anyone else is. It’s madness. If he’s that scared why not stay in America where he can have all the armed guards he wants and get gets to pay for it all. Perhaps that is the problem, he can’t pay for it and wants someone else to pick up the tab.

There is absolutely no reason to be so rude. RAVEC will step in if there is a credible threat they aren’t going to keep such information to themselves. There have actually been 4 cases of personal protection officers misfiring weapons in recent years so it could be argued that they are safer without armed protection.

He argues that he and his family need security because who they are (son, DIL, and grandchildren of the King), not what they do, presents a danger. Should John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer all come back and be PM again to earn the cost of their lifetime security? These are separate issues from the lack of safety on the streets of the UK for members of the public and women in particular; the government should be able to address more than one problem at once and pay more than one bill.

How do you know that can "stay in the US"? His US immigration status was sealed after the Heritage Foundation sued the US State Department and DHS to make his status public and a federal court ruled against them and said his privacy overruled the public's perceived "need to know" and publication of the information could negatively impact his safety and privacy.

Where did this come from? He hasn’t said a thing. No one’s twerking is worth money. But, he’ll always be a Prince. He’s the son of the monarch.

Well then let the monarch pay for him.

The government doesn’t have the money to pay for everything I’m afraid and what a scary idea that you think they can. The Sussexes aren’t more important than the public and keeping streets safe for the public is of far more importance I’m afraid. As for Harry possibly not being able to stay maybe he lied on his visa application about his publicised drug use and again that’s down to him

Harry should be stripped of all his royal privileges and forced to live as a commoner.

Harry and Meghan are not working royals of their own choice, so they need to pay for security if they require it. They probably wouldn't need it if Harry had not boasted on TV about how many Taliban he killed. He put target on his own back and that of his wife and kids. I don't know how Meghan can ever forgive him for that.

Also politicians who become PM even for a short while have security as part of their terms and conditions. Look at the number of politicians who have been murdered, maimed or threatened in the last 30 years.

Politicians have access to sensitive information harry and his family do not

The press and public turned on her before her death they were sick of it all they just got sicker of it quicker with Harry because of how our news cycles these days back in Diana's time we had news at ten daily newspapers and evening news etc these days its 24/7 rolling news shenanigans blasted on repeat it gets old fast

You're not wrong. Its bloody tedious 😩😩