Prince Harry reportedly took an ‘unimaginable security risk’ by ordering a Deliveroo takeaway during a boys’ evening – despite moaning his safety is at stake in the UK.
In a scathing interview with the BBC on Friday, the Duke of Sussex complained he will not be able to bring his wife and children back to the UK after losing his court battle over taxpayer-funded bodyguards.
Harry also claimed to be the victim of an ‘establishment stitch-up’ and said it was ‘sad’ he was unable to show his family his homeland due to issues with his security.
But it has now been alleged a Deliveroo driver arrived at his friend Lord Charles Vivian’s £8million London townhouse with food during a get-to-together last May.
This is despite high-profile figures usually avoiding such deliveries for safety reasons, The Sun on Sunday has reported.
Princess Diana’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe described the move as an ‘unthinkable security risk’.
He said: ‘It’s unbelievable that such a high-profile person, who considers themselves to be such a high-security risk, would allow themselves to have a Deliveroo driver arrive at a house with no idea of who they are and what they might be carrying in their bag.
‘It’s just unthinkable.’
Mr Wharfe also questioned why Harry would have the ‘audacity’ to moan about his lack of security if he is seemingly willing to take such risks.
It comes after Harry last night launched a blistering attack on the King, who he complained ‘won’t speak to me’.
The Duke of Sussex at the Royal Courts of Justice on April 8 during his appeal against a High Court ruling preventing him getting automatic taxpayer-funded police protection in the UK
Lord Charles Vivian, second from left, pictured with Prince Harry and other friends
The Duke of Sussex yesterday complained he will not be able to bring his wife and children back to the UK after losing his court battle over taxpayer-funded bodyguards
He also revealed he will not bring his wife or children back to the UK – and said he had had ‘so many disagreements’ with his family, some of whom ‘may never forgive’ him for writing a book.
In the extraordinary interview, Harry added that he was ‘devastated’ after losing his battle over taxpayer-funded bodyguards – which puts him on the hook for £1.5million in legal costs.
He laughed as he revealed ‘someone had told me beforehand’ there was ‘no way to win’.
Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, told the duke his ‘grievance’ over downgraded security had not ‘translated into a legal argument’.
And he ruled the original security decision had been a ‘predictable’ and even ‘sensible’ reaction to Megxit – when Harry and Meghan stepped back from being senior royals and left Britain.
On Friday night Buckingham Palace rebuked Harry’s claims of an establishment stitch-up in a blunt statement.
A spokesperson said: ‘These issues have been examined meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion on each occasion.’
A source added: ‘It would have been constitutionally improper for His Majesty to intervene while this matter was being considered by the Government and reviewed by the Courts.’
Laying bare his rift with the King and Prince William, following his interview with Oprah Winfrey which alleged racism and then the explosive publication of his stinging memoir, Spare, Harry said he had ‘forgiven them’.
The Duke of Sussex last night launched a series of scathing attacks on the Royal Family, and said his father won’t speak to him, in an astonishing interview with the BBC
In the astonishing interview, Prince Harry revealed he did not know how long his father Charles had left (pictured together in 2022)
Harry’s statement in full that he issued on Friday night following the loss of his court appeal
‘There have been so many disagreements, differences between me and some of my family,’ he said.
”Some will never forgive me for writing a book. But I would love reconciliation with my family.
‘I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff. But it would be nice to reconcile.’
But Harry paired his plea with an accusation that risks a constitutional debate: ‘What I know is interference came from the royal household.’
During the interview in California with the BBC’s Nada Tawfik, Harry claimed only he and the late Queen were on a par in terms of their security risk ‘scores’, as assessed by a Home Office quango.
He added: ‘I’ve been treated differently to everybody else that exists, I have been singled out.’
And in what was interpreted as a reference to Princess Diana, who died in a car crash, Harry said: ‘I don’t want history to repeat itself. Through the [court] process, I have discovered that some people want history to repeat itself.’
Yesterday’s ruling is a bitter blow to the duke, who said that, of all his court battles, this one ‘mattered the most’.
He will now be expected to foot the legal bill for taxpayers and his lawyers. The decision to downgrade the security was made by the Home Office’s Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec).
Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, pictured on Friday as he rejected Harry’s appeal
Members of the Royal Family depart Westminster Abbey after attending the annual Commonwealth Service in London on March 9, 2020
Harry said his ‘jaw dropped’ when he discovered the Royal Household – he named the King’s private secretary Sir Clive Alderton – sat on the Ravec committee. He said: ‘There is a lot of control and ability in my father’s hands.
‘Ultimately this whole thing could be resolved through him.’
Harry last saw the King in February last year, shortly after Charles, 76, was diagnosed with cancer.
In a statement last night, Harry said he would be writing to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper asking her to ‘urgently examine the matter and review the Ravec process’.
Harry believes he has been ‘singled out’ and ‘badly treated’ for ‘unjustified, inferior treatment’ since Megxit five years ago.
His barrister argued that the removal of Met Police armed bodyguards when he is in the UK has left the royal’s life ‘at stake’.
‘The conditions of my security were not based on threat, risk and impact, they were made based on my role – one that my wife and I wanted to maintain but was ultimately refused,’ he said.
He added: ‘This all comes from the same institutions that preyed upon my mother, that openly campaigned for the removal of our security, and continue to incite hatred towards me, my wife and even our children.’
When asked whether Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer should ‘step in’, Harry told the BBC: ‘I think that based on the judgment that the court has put out today, it clearly states that Ravec are not constrained by law.
‘Again, I wish somebody had said that from the beginning.’
He continued: ‘Yes, I would ask the Prime Minister to step in.
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