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Prince Harry’s failed courtroom case in opposition to the House Workplace over the removing of his automated police safety has value the taxpayer greater than £500,000, it was revealed yesterday.
Officers spent £514,128 preventing two separate judicial evaluation claims introduced by the Duke of Sussex after his safety standing was downgraded when he and spouse Meghan ceased being working royals and moved to the US.
The authorized invoice may nonetheless enhance, as Harry has vowed to attraction in opposition to his newest defeat when a decide final month dominated he had did not show the choice was unfair or illegal.
The prices of the 2 claims will elevate questions over a member of the Royal Household launching authorized motion in opposition to the Authorities.
The authorized invoice included greater than £180,000 for barristers, £320,000 for the Authorities’s authorized division, which offers authorized recommendation, and £3,200 in courtroom charges, in keeping with a Freedom of Data request by the Every day Telegraph.
Prince Harry’s (pictured final March exterior the Excessive Court docket) failed courtroom case in opposition to the House Workplace over the removing of his automated police safety has value the taxpayer greater than £500,000
Officers spent £514,128 preventing two separate judicial evaluation claims introduced by the Duke of Sussex after his safety standing was downgraded
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on the Invictus Video games in Dusseldorf on September 16, 2023
Nearly £10,000 was spent on the disclosure of digital paperwork linked to the case, believed to incorporate emails between civil servants and the Royal Family.
Harry, 39, claimed the choice by the House Workplace’s Govt Committee for the Safety of Royalty and Public Figures, often called Ravec, was unfair and jeopardised the protection of him and his household.
His attorneys argued he was ‘singled out’ and handled much less favourably than different VIPs.
The House Workplace mentioned Britain had ‘finite public sources’ and argued police safety ought to be restricted to these ‘appearing within the curiosity of the State by their public position’.
A Excessive Court docket decide dominated the choice to revoke his round the clock taxpayer-funded police safety and as a substitute evaluation his safety wants on a case-by-case foundation was lawful, and dismissed his case.
Prince Harry and Meghan, pictured at an Invictus Video games occasion in Canada on February 14, 2024
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stand exterior Kensington Palace after asserting their engagement in November 2017
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend an occasion in Whistler close to Vancouver within the construct as much as the 2025 Invictus Video games
William, Harry, Meghan and Charles communicate collectively at a service at Westminster Abbey in March 2019 – the 12 months earlier than the Sussexes stepped down as senior royals and moved to the US
The ruling left Harry with an estimated £1million authorized invoice. He was beforehand barred from bringing a separate declare over his request to pay for his personal safety.
He’s pursuing separate authorized circumstances in opposition to Information Group Newspapers, which publishes The Solar and the now-defunct Information of the World, and Related Newspapers, writer of the Every day Mail.
In January, he deserted a libel declare in opposition to the Mail’s sister paper The Mail on Sunday over an article about his safety, leaving him dealing with an estimated £750,000 authorized invoice.
Weeks later he accepted ‘substantial’ damages to finish a four-year authorized case in opposition to Mirror Group Newspapers over cellphone hacking.
