PRINCE Harry has been slammed by an ex-Scotland Yard boss for talking “complete nonsense”.
claimed his police protection was removed as part of a in the Royal Family.
In his latest extraordinary attack, Harry is said to have seen secret evidence which confirmed his “worst fears” about the decision.
He is attempting to sue theHome Officebecause it refused to spend taxpayers' money on bodyguards after he left the .
sat partly in private to hear confidential evidence.
The 40-year-old duke was said to be unhappy with what he heard.
As he left the Royal Courts of Justice, Harry told The Telegraph “people would be shocked by what's being held back”.
He added that his “worst fears have been confirmed by the whole legal disclosure in this case and that's really sad”.
Harry suggested the decision was an attempt to prevent him and his wife from quitting as working royals and moving abroad.
sources have strongly denied this claim.
Harry said: “We were trying to create this happy house.”
Now the former head of Scotland Yard's Royal Protection has said Harry was “talking complete nonsense”.
Dai Davies told The Mail on Sunday Harry and Meghan's “security arrangements in the UK are considered on a case-by-case basis”.
He said: “He is given a liaison officer who has access to the most up to date intelligence reports.
“The idea that he needs 24/7 armed protection is ridiculous – so too is the idea that Britain is unsafe for him.
“This new argument that he is advancing is frankly bizarre. It was a Ravec decision, pure and simple – nothing to do with the Royal Family.”
It comes after retired High Court judge Sir Peter Lane ruled last year that Ravec's decision, taken in early 2020 after Harry and Meghan quit as senior working royals, was lawful.
The , which has legal responsibility for the committee's decisions, is opposing the appeal.
Its lawyers previously told the High Court that decisions were taken on a “case-by-case” basis.
The Telegraph said Harry admitted he was “exhausted” and “overwhelmed” by the legal battle.
The newspaper suggested Harry considered the case more important than his legal battle against tabloids saying “this one always mattered the most”.
At the end of the hearing on Wednesday, judge Sir Geoffrey Vos said the ‘s decision would be given in writing at a later date, which was “most unlikely” to be before Easter.
Sir Geoffrey, sitting with Lord Justice Bean and Lord Justice Edis, said: “Plainly we will take our time to consider our judgments.”
Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping back from official public duties on January 8, 2020.
The duke and duchess were later told during the so-called ‘Sandringham summit', which aimed to agree the terms of their new role, that they would not be able to retain the full-time police protection.
Such protection is currently granted to the King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children.
Ravec's final decision shared on February 28, 2020, stated that protection would no longer be appropriate after the Sussexes' departure, and that they should receive a different degree of protection when in the UK.
The Sussexes would instead receive a “bespoke” security service, whereby they would be required to give 30 days notice of any plans to travel to the UK, with each visit being assessed for threat levels and whether protection is needed.
Shaheed Fatima KC, who represents Harry, told the appeal hearing that the duke had been “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment”.
She added that Harry “does not accept that ‘bespoke' means ‘better'.”
The Home Office told the court the challenge “involves a continued failure to see the wood for the trees, advancing propositions available only by reading small parts of the evidence, and now the judgment, out of context and ignoring the totality of the picture”.
Sir James Eadie KC, for the Home Office, said Ravec was faced with a “unique set of circumstances”.
