PIERS Morgan blasted Prince Harry’s “brazen double standards” over the Royal’s police protection row and its “appalling” timing for the Queen.
He slammed the Sussexes decision to take legal action against the Government after they were stripped of their round-the-clock security.
Piers criticised the couple for “popping their heads up again” as the Queen grapples with the loss of her husband Prince Phillip and Prince Andrew’s legal woes.
The 56-year-old broadcaster let rip during his first return to breakfast TV on the BBC’s new Sunday Morning show, saying they should be stripped of their royal titles completely.
It comes after it was revealed Harry wants to bring his son Archie and baby daughter Lilibet to visit from the US, but feels his family are “unable to return to his home” because it is too dangerous, a legal representative said.
But Sun columnist Piers said he didn’t understand why Harry thought he was entitled to protection from British cops after moving stateside post Megxit.
He told presenter Sophie Rawrth: “It’s absolutely chillingly inevitable these two would pop their heads up again right when the Queen least wants them to.
“I feel so sorry for the Queen. It’s her Platinum Jubilee coming,” he said. “The timing of it so appalling.”
“She’s lost her husband, she’s got this awful situation with Andrew, and now her grandson who has been baiting the Royal Family and the monarchy all year has now popped up from his mansion in California to say that when he comes back to the UK he wants to have the British police protect him.
“Sorry mate, that’s now how this works… I don’t give a damn if he’s paying for it or not.
“Why should the British police protect him? He’s now a private citizen. He doesn’t do any royal duties,” Piers added.
“They’re making hundreds of millions of dollars fleecing their royal titles, which they still have while simultaneously trashing the Royal Family and the institution of the monarchy that his grandmother is the head of.
“Now they want to have cake and eat it as always. I wouldn’t let them have royal titles. It’s a brazen double standard. If you want royal titles, do royal duties.”
Harry’s controversial legal move is thought to be the first time a member of the Royal Family has brought a case against Her Majesty’s Government.
The Queen is understood to have been made aware of her grandson’s action, which could lead to a High Court battle if the case proceeds.
A legal representative for the Duke said: “Prince Harry inherited a security risk at birth, for life.
“He remains sixth in line to the throne, served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats.
“While his role within the institution has changed, his profile as a member of the royal family has not. Nor has the threat to him and his family.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex personally fund a private security team for their family, yet that security cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed whilst in the UK. In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home.”
A police task force, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, handles a list of essential public figures and royals who have round-the-clock protection funded primarily by the state.
SECURITY COSTS
Harry and Meghan had requested 24/7 security – all at the expense of Brits – when they first eyed a move overseas.
In an extraordinary statement announcing they would quit the Royal Family and move to Canada, the pair said they expected taxpayers to continue funding their royal protection officers as “internationally protected people”.
The six-strong security team previously provided by Scotland Yard cost around £600,000 a year.
But costs would have ballooned to several times that figure if British police were forced to provide the service overseas.
There are no hard and fast rules for which royals are given security details.
Until 2011, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice received protection at a reported cost of £500,000 a year.
Since then they have provided their own, and both princesses and their husbands make their own incomes.
