Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been considered “arrogant” for assuming they would maintain royal security after fleeing the UK, which would have cost taxpayers an estimated $ 5.5 million each year, according to the former police officer. real.
“It shows you the naiveté and sense of law,” retired Superintendent Dai Davies, who ran the UK rights protection unit, told the Daily Mail.
“It was just arrogant to presume that they and their baby would have protection.”
The couple complained in their interview with Oprah Winfrey, who lost her royal security detail, and Harry said it came “in a short time” and that was why they moved quickly from Canada. in California after Tyler Perry offered security along with his mansion.
But astronomical security costs were one of the first points of contention days after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were leaving the royal functions, especially after boasting they would be “financially independent”.
It also caused diplomatic misfortune, with outraged Canadians who were expected to pay millions for it as well, and President Donald Trump said the U.S. would not help once the Sussex moved to California.
Davies said he was “embarrassed” that the couple expected taxpayers to continue paying.
“It was absolutely unrealistic to think that they could continue to have their real protection team working in America, in fact they would have put it [police] he lives at risk, ”he said.
He noted that British police are only allowed to protect the royal family in the US as part of a “reciprocal agreement” for “occasions such as official state visits”.
“But British officers could not continue to work there, unable to carry firearms and without access to the integrated intelligence of the security services,” he said. “It was unviable.”
Existing concerns in Canada, where the government said it would stop helping security “in accordance with its change of state,” were exacerbated when the Sussex moved to California, the post said. the famous bodyguard Russell Stuart.
“It simply came to our notice then. We’re a nation of gun owners … California is a much bigger place, it’s more dangerous, ”the former California State Guard officer told the dam.
“You have a lot more potential threats than in Vancouver.”
