Harry argues he ‘has been singled out for inferior treatment’ after ‘stepping back as working royal’

The California-based royal is challenging the dismissal of his High Court legal action against the Home Office over the decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of protection when in the country of his birth because he stepped down as a full-time royal. His case has cost the British taxpayer £500,000 so far.

Opening the Duke of Sussex’s appeal this morning, with her royal client sat just behind her, Ms Fatima said he had been ‘singled out’ for ‘inferior treatment’ when he was stripped of the high level of protection he was previously given by the Metropolitan Police.
‘When Ravec made its February 2020 decision about the appellant’s protective security, it did not apply its own terms of reference to that decision-making process’, she said, adding that Ravec came up with a ‘different and so-called ‘bespoke process’.
‘The appellant [Prince Harry] does not accept that ‘bespoke’ means ‘better’. In fact, in his submission, it means that he has been singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment’.
Prince Harry was sat in court following his lead counsel’s case, sipping from a plastic bottle of still mineral water as she spoke.

In written submissions submitted to the Court of Appeal today, Harry’s KC, viewed as a legal trailblazer because in 2016 she became Britain’s first hijab-wearing barrister, said: ‘This appeal concerns the most fundamental right: to safety and security of person’.