Live: Prince Harry's appeal over UK police protection ruling

Live: Prince Harry’s appeal over UK police protection ruling

Prince Harry’s decision to step back from his life as a working royal resulted in a “unique set of circumstances”. This a government barrister has told the Court of Appeal.

The Duke of Sussex claimed he had been “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment”, as he appeared at the high court in London in the latest round of legal action over his security arrangements while he is in the UK.

Prince Harry is challenging the dismissal of his high court legal action against the Home Office last year over the decision by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of taxpayer-funded protection when in the country.

The duke, 40, sat behind his legal team in a packed courtroom as his barrister, Shaheed Fatima KC, told the appeal court Sir Peter Lane had erred when that judge ruled last year that Ravec’s decision, taken in early 2020 after Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior working royals, was not irrational or procedurally unfair.