Prince Harry asked to give month’s notice before traveling to UK

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By Jack Hobbs

March 19, 2023 | 12:54 p.m

It was not a very fun holiday.

Prince Harry has been asked to give Britain’s Home Office one month’s notice that he will be traveling across the pond so they can determine whether the former royal needs a security detail.

According to a new report obtained by The Telegraph, following the submission of the security request, it is up to the Home Office to decide the level of security required as the duke “steps down” from royal life in 2020.

The Duke of Sussex hit back at the office asking them to provide an example of someone like the former royal who was not given security after stepping out of the public eye.

“I’d like them to give an example where someone else left ‘public duty’ with the same threat assessment as me and got no security,” Harry said. “I was born for this and the threat will never diminish because of my family status.”

In the past, Harry criticized the protection his family received as “uneven, disjointed and inadequate” when the Duke and Duchess attended memorial events for his mother, Princess Diana in June 2021.

In February 2022, the Duke sued Associated Newspapers Limited after the newspaper published a story claiming the royal family had tried to keep their fight with the British government under wraps.

Prince Harry’s legal team argued that the prince was “seriously concerned about his safety and security during future trips to the UK” and felt that “given the gravity of what is at stake for him and his family” his only option was to take legal action.

“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been subjected to intense media scrutiny, hostile social media attention and targeted by violent extremists for (among other things) [Duke’s] ten years of military service in the British Army,” his legal team continued. “The Race of the Duchess of Sussex and Their Involvement in Charitable and Other Social Justice Initiatives.”

According to his lawyers, the 28-day termination by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Rights and Public Figures (RAVEC) could threaten his safety.

The lawyers say the notice “impedes their ability to plan and manage his security arrangements; can lead to [the Duke’s] the actual arrangements are inadequate and endanger its ultimate security.”

The Post has asked the Home Office and Sussex for comment