Harry and Meghan - OP updated with Threadbanned Users 4/5/21

Stay with family in London - good one! I think they could provide Harry with accommodation if they wanted to, but instead, the indain givers took back Frogmore which had been a gift from his grandmother so it could be used to get Andrew out of the way. It wouldn't be suitable had Harry and Meghan not spent millions renovating it. Not a peep about Dad recompensing them for that.

I doubt Harry had even an inkling of that sort of irrelevant protocol, and neither would any of the other members of the family, that's the sort of thing their staff handle.

The UK won't provide Harry or his family with security, so it's hardly surprising Harry doesn't bring the family with him. If he'd brought the family he'd be accused of trying to grab the limelight or some such. He can't win.

Ah, poor Harry. You forget that H&M decided on their freedom flight, and their independent financial status. Acted petulantly, toys out of the pram. But by what magic could anyone think that, having given up as working royals, they should continue to enjoy all the trappings and perks.

I’ve pointed out a few times that when you leave a firm, you hand back your pass, your car if you’re lucky enough to get one, credit card, laptop etc. The firm stops paying you, and no longer pays your health insurance, etc etc. A pat on the back if you’re lucky, and you’re on your own.

And Harry and Meghan should be treated differently because………???

I’ve pointed out a few times that when you leave a firm, you hand back your pass, your car if you’re lucky enough to get one, credit card, laptop etc. The firm stops paying you, and no longer pays your health insurance, etc etc. A pat on the back if you’re lucky, and you’re on your own.

He can't hand back being son of the King FFS.

The security risk he inherited suddenly just doesn't disappear because he is no longer a work royal.

This is remedial stuff TBF.

Are they not funding it?

It's similar to American Presidents who are still entitled to secret service protection for themselves, their spouses & children under 16 even after they are no longer President.

Risks don't disappear just because they are no longer in the job.

Ah, the protocols! Charles has managed to go on private holidays to his holiday home in Romania, so the only difference is that its a slightly longer plane ride. There is top class security in Montecito anyway.

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No, it's perfectly sensible; like providing accommodation for a visiting son when you are worth £10 billion and have say over 6 palaces containing thousands of rooms. If dad could be arsed to go pick his son and family up from the airport, then his security would go with him and so it wouldn't be an issue.

Dad's having cancer treatment, I think that running around at the moment is probably not the best idea. Harry needs to act a bit more like a nearly 40 year old man and not like some petulant teenager who's spent his bus fare on ayahuasca and needs a lift home.

So Charles is at home - maybe he could send his car and his security to pick him up then as he won't be needing it. Its not as if he would have to drive around Heathrow anyway looking for a parking space!

Why ever not‽ I mean, H&M weren't shy to use the Met Police Protection Officers to collect coffees in Canada.

Harry was collected in Heathrow by royal protection officers today in a fleet of Range Rovers and escorted by MET police in marked cars and motorbikes. Blue lighted through every red light I presume .

That was after being whisked off the plane to a higly secure VIP area for quick immigration/customs check, then into the Range Rover right outside the door.

Whats the security complaining about then ?

It would have been the same treatment if his wife and kids were with him, with probably about another half dozen cars.

He didn't offer to pay for his security. That was a successful piece of spin done on his behalf by Omid Scobie to head off the Mail article exposing that Harry had been privately battling the government which had denied him post-Megxit security. Interestingly his offer to pay was not included when he filed his original judicial review for that decision. Did Edward Young manage to intercept Harry and his legal teams documents and remove these important details I wonder? 🙄

The Home Office said Harry didn't offer private funding in any pre-action correspondence. You'd think this would have been included by him. Documents submitted for the judicial review by his lawyers show no details about this offer supposedly made at the Sandringham Summit i.e. who he offered it to, who denied it etc. Young had written on behalf of the Queen imploring the government that their security would be imperative. But he blocked it? Nonsense. The offer to pay was a punt at gaining public sympathy via spin. It clearly worked. In court documents for another case Harry complains/argues via email in April 2020 to Edward Young that he could not afford to pay for private security until he and Meghan were able to earn their own money.

How, just a couple of months before those emails, can he genuinely make an offer to pay for police protection but, at the same time, be unable to actually pay for any security at all until he made some money? Didn’t want to touch that money his mum left him would be my guess. He was born into the risk feeling entitled to it and wanted his Pa to stump up. Which he did to the tune of a couple of million.

I think they're called "Drivers". I could be wrong, of course.

Police.