Royal commentator Jennie Bond has said she believes it is right that Prince Harry is given protection when he travels to the UK.
Speaking to GB News Jennie Bond said:
“I think what has changed is that the persistence of Harry has finally borne some fruit, and I think it’s quite right.
“I think Harry is correct to say, why should I not be afforded protection when I come back to the UK when, let us say former prime ministers, Liz Truss, for example, who served for 49 days, shorter some say, that than a lettuce will last. She is afforded to protection for the rest of her life.
“There are eight former prime ministers, and the bill for protecting them, some of them round the clock, is about £12 million a year of taxpayers’ money.
“And Harry has argued, and I think, very persuasively, that he should have afforded that same level of protection when he comes back to the UK. It’s probably not going to be very often. It’s probably not going to be very expensive, but he is the King’s son, he can’t do anything about that.
“He has fought in Afghanistan. That is a matter of record, and I think he is entirely correct in this.
“It’s more about bringing his family back here. I suppose he has proved that he’s willing to put his own life at risk, and yes, perhaps a little foolhardy to go ringing doorbells.
“However, he wants to bring his children, at least back. He has said that he wants to show them their heritage, and he wants to show his kids to his father. So it’s more about the family than his own safety. And I believe him on that.
“And he brings his own bodyguards across from the States, but they cannot carry arms, and also they are not privy to the kind of intelligence that the UK authorities are privy to. That’s his main point. And I think that’s a very valid one.”
Discussing the Duchess of Sussex and her bid to contact her father, Jennie Bond said:
“From what we understand, and I think here we should try to deal in facts. And the fact, as I know it is, you don’t know, and I don’t know the truth of this.
“We hear that she has sent an email. We hear through her people that they believe it was sent to the wrong address. Yes, of course, you should know your dad’s email, but apparently he doesn’t use email anymore.
“We know that they are estranged: that is a fact. We know that her people say she has tried to contact him. We know that his people and the hospital say they haven’t received any kind of notification from her, any message from her. That’s really as far as it goes.
“And I think we should not go on castigating her in what is a very complicated family situation. And I hope she has ‘reached out’, in that awful American term, to her father, who is clearly quite sick.
“I know I find it bizarre but I in a completely different arena, I’ve spoken to parents who are estranged from their children and vice versa. And it’s not always easy to track people down, you know, it really isn’t.
“I think we should accept at face value that she has sent an email, and also I think that if there’s been further communication, that it will be perhaps private, and you don’t know about it, and I don’t know about it either.”
