Prince Harry is set to challenge the UK government's decision to remove his security detail in an appeals court.
The Duke of Sussex lost his government-funded protection in February 2020, after stepping down as a working member of the royal family and moving to the United States.
His lawyer is scheduled to challenge a lower court ruling on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal in London.
Last year, a High Court judge ruled that the government's decision to provide "bespoke" security for Harry on an as-needed basis was lawful and justified.
Harry had claimed he and his family are endangered when visiting his homeland because of hostility aimed at him and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on social media and through relentless hounding by news media.
Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, has bucked royal family convention by taking the government and tabloid press to court, where he has a mixed record.
He lost a related court case in which he sought permission to privately pay for a police detail when in the U.K. but a judge denied that offer after a government lawyer argued officers shouldn’t be used as “private bodyguards for the wealthy.”
He also dropped a libel case against the publisher of the Daily Mail for an article that said he had tried to hide his efforts to continue receiving government-funded security.
But he won a significant victory at trial in 2023 against the publisher of the Daily Mirror when a judge found that phone hacking at the tabloid was “widespread and habitual.” He claimed a “monumental” victory in January when Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit.
He has a similar case pending against the publisher of the Mail.
