Monarchy in flames: They find out who gave the order to remove Harry from custody

Prince Harry brought the British Home Office to justice why removed from the actual case that had accompanied him since birth. He didn’t think it was safe to visit Britain with his new family without British police surveillance.

Harry, Duke of Sussex and son of Princess Diana, is not only part of the royal family. He is also the sixth in line to the throne, a former fighter pilot in Afghanistan who has fought the Taliban and lives under constant threat. Their American guard of 22 men he has no access to intelligence and is not even capable of carrying weapons to Britain.

That’s why his surprise was enormous when he discovered that those who denied him custody were none other than Sir Edward YoungQueen Elizabeth’s private secretary, her grandmother, plus deputy private secretary and landlord to the Prince of Wales, Prince Charleshis father and heir to the throne.

It was his British lawyer who informed the judges during the trial. Harry “was not informed” that the Royal House was part of the ROVER Committee that made the decision and that he was presented as “Independent”.

The Queen’s private secretary, along with Prince Charles and his brother William, they are the ones who advised taking away from Harry all its royal decorations.

Now you find that too your case. Those were days of enormous reproaches and mutual distrust. Now the Duke of Sussex is asking for “a judicial review” of his case, why it is riddled with “injustices” and “was not independent of the Royal House “.

Significant efforts

The Duke of Sussex said “significant tensions” meant the Queen’s private secretary he shouldn’t have been involved in the decision to reduce his police protection ”after his resignation as royal, the High Court heard in the hearing.

The Duke has started legal action against the Ministry of the Interior for the decision not to allow him to pay police protection for him and his family. while in the UK. The Queen’s secretary did not report this offer, sent by Harry through the Royal House, to the Ravecs.

His lawyers asked Judge Swift at a hearing in London on Friday to grant permission for a “full judicial review” of the Interior Ministry’s decision.

Harry is challenging the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Reality and Public Characters (Ravec) about his safety, after being told he would no longer receive the “same degree” of personal protection when he visited the country from his California residence.

Shaheed Fatima QC, the Duke’s attorney, stated in writing that, before the decision was made, she had been told that “Ravec was independent”. Nor was he told that members of the royal house were involved in making the decision.

“They told him it was an independent decision,” the lawyer said.

At the time, Ravec’s members included Queen’s private secretary Sir Edward Young, her deputy private secretary and the Prince of Wales landlord, as well as the interior ministry and police.

However, Fatima said Harry was told the decision was made “independently” of the royal house, “which is relevant in light of the significant tensions” between Harry and Young in those days, when his future was being decided at all. interior of the royal family. when you leave him.

He said he wasn’t accusing “bad faith” either bias in the way the decision was made.

Asked if “some people shouldn’t have been involved” in making the decision, the judge said, “This is a pretty bold presentation.”

Fatima also claimed that Harry was “materially disadvantaged” because his offer to pay for his own safety was not passed on to Ravec.

Ask for judicial review

Sir James Eadie QC, an Interior Ministry attorney, argued in written observations that Ravec’s decision to offer security to Harry and his family on a “flexible, nuanced, responsive and context-specific” basis was “obviously rational”.

The judge said he would decide whether the duke’s case could be subjected to “judicial review” at a later date.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived in Britain for the jubilee on their charter plane and were met at Hampshire Airport by Queen Elizabeth’s caretakers. They stayed at her home in Frogmore Cottage.

But they only attended the Ruler’s Jubilee religious ceremony in St Paul’s Cathedral, where they weren’t sitting next to their father or brother. And in the Trooping the color ceremony, in homage to the sovereign, They were only inside the palace and not on the balcony.

They left the country as the festivities continued and after celebrating the birthday of their daughter Lilibet, without the presence of the royals. But the queen has finally met her great granddaughter.

This affront to the Sussexes has been explained by the palace sources with the fear of appearing in Netflix’s “commercial” documentary that Harry and Meghan are filming about his life.

But this incident will aggravate the already deteriorated bond between Harry and his father, the next heir. It will certainly have repercussions on the memoir Harry is writing and that the Royal House fears so much. He will appear in the European autumn.

Paris, correspondent

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