{"id":159286,"date":"2025-06-05T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159286\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:26:09","slug":"prince-harry-slapped-with-hefty-bill-after-crushing-legal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159286\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry slapped with hefty bill after crushing legal defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1318500_9687678_PrinceHarry_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Harry recently lost his bid to attain more police protection in the UK\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry recently lost his bid to attain more police protection in the UK\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry\u2019s legal battle to reinstate full police protection in the UK has ended in a costly defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex \u201ccomprehensively lost\u201d the High Court case last year, with his subsequent appeal dismissed in May. As the losing party, he\u2019s now expected to cover up to 90% of the government\u2019s legal fees, which have already totaled \u00a3656,324 \u2014 \u00a3554,000 from the initial trial and another \u00a3102,000 from the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers include more than \u00a3241,000 for barristers and \u00a3394,000 for government solicitors. His own legal costs haven\u2019t been revealed but are believed to be just as steep, possibly bringing the full financial fallout to around \u00a31.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Harry had flown in from California to attend the April hearing in person. His legal team argued that stripping him of armed police protection endangered his life, citing his high-profile status and military service.<\/p>\n<p>After the appeal failed, Harry told the BBC in a bombshell interview: \u201cI wish someone had told me beforehand\u201d there was \u201cno way to win.\u201d He added the case was the one that \u201cmattered the most\u201d out of all his legal battles.<\/p>\n<p>In the court\u2019s ruling, Sir Geoffrey Vos acknowledged Harry\u2019s position was \u201cpowerful and moving\u201d but added that his \u201csense of grievance\u201d failed to hold up as a legal argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry recently lost his bid to attain more police protection in the UK\u00a0 Prince Harry\u2019s legal battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[14120,5033,7709,67349,12456,7721,7719,7718,67348,7900,7720,1281,7794,447,7710,519,53271,7711,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-159286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-bill","10":"tag-british-royal-family","11":"tag-crushing","12":"tag-defeat","13":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","14":"tag-duke-of-sussex","15":"tag-harry","16":"tag-hefty","17":"tag-legal","18":"tag-meghan","19":"tag-meghan-markle","20":"tag-prince","21":"tag-prince-harry","22":"tag-royal-families","23":"tag-royal-family","24":"tag-slapped","25":"tag-uk-royal-family","26":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114628866031775437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}