Prince Harry can take the British government to court over security arrangements for him and his family, a London judge determined Friday.
Four of the five claims in the prince’s case deserve to be heard in a full hearing at a high court in London and undergo a judicial review, Judge Jonathan Swift said. However, the fifth claim, in which Harry argued he should have been told who on the committee made the protection decision, was dismissed, according to the Daily Mail.
“In the course of submissions, it became apparent that, while the claimant may have had disagreements with persons who were Ravec committee members, there was no evidence at all to support a claim that any committee member had approached decisions with a closed mind,” Swift said, according to the outlet. “Ultimately it was accepted for the claimant that no such case was, or could be, advanced.”
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The British prince and his wife, Meghan Markle, lost publicly funded security when they stepped down as working members of the royal family and moved to the United States in 2020. Harry has offered to cover the costs of the police protection personally when visiting the United Kingdom. However, the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures refused, determining in 2020 that the prince could not pay for such security.
The judge found that the royal committee’s decisions were “legally unreasonable” and the prince should have been told about the security policy before the committee reached its decision.
Granting the hearing at the permission stage is “some distance from a conclusion that the case will succeed at final hearing,” Swift said. No date for the hearing has been set.
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The prince does not want to take his wife and children back to England because he believes it is unsafe for his family, lawyers for the royal couple claimed. The last trip they took to England was for the queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, which celebrated the monarch’s historic 70-year reign. Harry, who is the queen’s grandson, was present at only some of the jubilee’s festivities.
Harry and Meghan have private security in the U.S.
