Harry and Meghan 'won't stop until they get what they want from ordinary Brits'

A royal expert has warned that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not stop until they get British taxpayer-funded security. It has been reported that the Sussexes will get an official risk assessment following their return to the UK last month, as they demand security paid for by taxpayers. There was reportedly a meeting last week of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC), which had previously rejected Harry's plea for Government security.

The prince is waiting to hear the conclusion of the Risk Management Board’s threat assessment, and RAVEC is expected to decide at the meeting as to whether the Sussex family should be entitled to taxpayer-funded security while they are living in Britain. The committee chairman wrote to the duke last week confirming that, in light of their changed circumstances, it had commissioned a new risk assessment for him and a separate one for Meghan, The Telegraph reported.

It emerged this week that Harry and Meghan have moved their children, Archie and Lilibet, to a different school amid security issues.

Heavy traffic and the lengthy journey to the school put the Sussexes’ security team under strain, Hello! magazine reported.

Now, royal expert Robert Jobson has written that the couple "won't stop bleating" until they get protection funded by ordinary Brits.

He wrote for The Sun: "It is equally clear Harry and Meghan will not stop bleating about their security until they get what they want out of the royal protection service, Ravec.

"At the other end of the family, the Wales children have gone to school for years without a single bulletin once term started. No convoy. No pictures.

"Strip it back and this is about armed officers, paid for by the public, being permanently assigned.

"Protection is not something you decide you are owed. It is provided when the danger warrants it."

Mr Jobson then suggested a potential solution — hiring retired royalty protection officers, who stop working in their mid-fifties.

The King did this for Camilla before he married her.

A previous court judgement regarding Harry’s request for Government security stated that protection was provided by specialist police officers who, if the situation arose, were to put themselves in harm’s way to protect the duke and his wife, "in the public interest and the interests of the State”.

This could only be justified when the public interest requires it, because taxpayers had provided money for it, the document explained.

They went further, and claimed that public confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service and RAVEC "may be undermined if it were believed that a wealthy individual could pay to receive protective security measures that they would not receive if they were less wealthy".