Prince Harry has arrived for the second day of his case challenging the level of security he gets in the UK.
He was pictured at London’s Royal Courts of Justice for the final day of his appeal.
Today’s hearing will largely be behind closed doors as it’s set to hear sensitive information about security arrangements and threat levels.
The prince lost a previous challenge against a decision to remove his right to automatic police protection after he quit as a senior royal in 2020.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the prince was seen writing in a notepad and on Post-it notes, which he passed to his legal team.
He also typed on his phone, had whispered conversations with those around him and was seen eating a Pret A Manger lunch.
Harry’s barrister told the court the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) did not get an assessment from an expert specialist body when it changed his security and instead followed a “bespoke” process.
Shaheed Fatima KC said: “(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.”
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In written submissions, Harry’s lawyers said he and his wife Meghan “felt forced to step back” from their roles as senior working royals because they thought “they were not being protected by the institution”.
“But they wished to continue their duties in support of the late Queen as privately funded members of the Royal Family,” they said.
Following Ravec’s decision, al Qaeda called for Harry to “be murdered” in a document stating his “assassination would please the Muslim community”, the court papers said.
‘Dangerous car pursuit’
The papers also highlight an incident in May 2023 when Harry and Meghan “were involved in a dangerous car pursuit with paparazzi in New York City”.
His lawyers said “no formal charges were brought but the investigation found reckless disregard of vehicle and traffic laws and ‘persistently dangerous and unacceptable behaviour on the part of the paparazzi'”.
Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Home Office, said experts, including the chair of Ravec and the chair of the risk management board (RMB), had decided Harry’s “unique circumstances” required a “bespoke approach”.
The prince would be “better served” by this approach and the decision did not mean “personal security of the kind previously provided would under no circumstances be provided”, he told the court.
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In written arguments, government lawyers said while they recognise that Harry “disagrees vehemently” with his security arrangements, his views are “legally irrelevant”.
Ravec “implemented the bespoke process” for Harry and so he is “already treated exceptionally”, they argued.
The three judges hearing the case previously said evidence on security arrangements and threat levels, and assessments for Harry and other public figures, was “highly confidential” and would be heard in private.
