A lawyer for the government argued in court that it was not appropriate to allow hiring 'police officers as private bodyguards for the wealthy.'
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attends the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6, 2023 in London, England. A London judge rejected Prince Harry's bid to pay for his own police protection Tuesday, denying the royal's request to challenge the U.K. government in court.
A lawyer for the government argued in court that it was not appropriate to allow hiring "police officers as private bodyguards for the wealthy."Justice Martin Chamberlain said there was nothing "incoherent or illogical" in the government’s reasoning to deny the Duke of Sussex’s request to hire police bodyguards at his own expense. He said providing private protection for an individual was different from paying police as security at sporting and other events.
No one was injured and no citations given, but police said photographers made it challenging for the couple to get where they were going.The couple have said they fund their own security. Former President Donald Trump said the U.S. government wouldn’t pay to protect them. Judges are currently weighing whether two other phone hacking cases can go to trial against the publishers of the Daily Mail and The Sun.Lawyers for the newspapers have argued the claims were brought well beyond a six-year time limit. Harry's lawyer has argued that an exception should be granted because the publishers were deceptive about the hacking and other unlawful information gathering so he couldn't discover it soon enough.
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