Prince Harry has been accused of "picking his battles" after travelling to war-torn Ukraine despite his legal battle against the Home Office for better security protection - claiming his former home country is "unsafe".The Duke of Sussex met with victims of the conflict at the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, just days after flying to the UK to attend his court appeal.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00What do you think about Harry being in protection because of Al-Qaeda?
00:02Well, I think this is just Prince Harry being the entitled Prince once again.
00:07He's always bleating about something or other, complaining that he's got the hardest lot in life, hasn't he?
00:13Here he is. He's back in the UK, or has been back in the UK, in the latest stage of his legal fight
00:19with the Home Office over having state-funded, taxpayer-funded personal security for him
00:26and his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children.
00:30Lily and Prince Archie, when they come to the UK.
00:33Now, the Home Office said that when they stepped back from royal duties,
00:39when they left the royal family as working members of the royal family, shall I say,
00:42back in 2020, that meant they were no longer eligible to have taxpayer-funded security.
00:48It was the same when, for instance, Diana, Prince Harry's mother, was no longer an HRA.
00:53She was stripped of that, you know, so it's the same again.
00:56And he's appealing against this, and he's requesting to have this protection in place when he comes back.
01:04Now, by that, he wants to be able to have British police, obviously, with guns, because he says his life's a threat.
01:11But what I will say is, Prince Harry, did you think about that when you boasted in your autobiography spare
01:18about killing al-Qaeda members while fighting as a soldier in Afghanistan?
01:23No, I mean, that meant that he fought alongside it, put their lives in danger.
01:28That's what led to what is essentially a fatsoir, isn't it?
01:31Exactly, exactly. So there you are.
01:34And it also hasn't stopped him going into what you could argue is a war zone when he went to Ukraine last week.
01:42So, you know, you have to wonder, you know, does he pick his battles wisely?
01:45Does he actually think about these things before he goes ahead?
01:48I think that as a couple, they're awful. I really do. I really do. I think they're awful.
01:54Say what you think. I think that they have capitalised on being quite talentless.
02:01I think that for them to, you know, coming from me, that's saying something.
02:05And I think that for them to... All right, that wasn't that funny.
02:09But also, I think that for them to have, like, doing these racism accusations and all of this
02:15when our late Queen and Prince Philip were seriously ill, I think is absolutely dreadful.
02:20But, but, I have some sympathy for this position, because he will always be the son of the king.
02:28He will always have served the country.
02:31And I'm sorry, in the UK, he doesn't have...
02:34He can't have armed protection because of the fact that, in a way, he can pay for people with guns.
02:39Do we really want a situation as annoying, as irritating, as ridiculous their TV shows and bleating on actually are?
02:47Do we really want a situation where we allow a Muslim terror group, Al-Qaeda, to get such a win in hurting him?
02:54No-one would want that. No-one would want to give that propaganda benefit and win to Al-Qaeda.
03:01So, I have sympathy for that position.
03:03With that, Mike, we'll just take a straw poll, so by virtue of shouting at me, please.
03:09Who thinks that Harry should get taxpayer-funded protection because of the threat of Al-Qaeda?
03:14Yes.
03:14Yes.
03:15OK, who thinks he shouldn't?
03:17Me.
03:19That's real, because 60-40 in favour of shouldn't, I think.
03:22No, 70-30.
03:23OK.
03:25Go on, Barry, you'll be...
03:27Because I suppose one of the points would be, whilst it's awful, and no doubt there is clearly a threat from Al-Qaeda,
03:31has he not brought it on himself a bit?
03:34Look, he's a young man who fought for this country, and I respect him for that.
03:41He's a young man who, having seen some of his friends disfigured and become limbless,
03:49set up his charity, and I respect him for that.
03:54He went to Ukraine, not to flaunt himself in a war zone, but actually to visit some of the veterans of that war
04:04who had been injured and lost limbs as well, and I respect him for that.
04:09Of course he should have taxpayer-funded protection in this country,
04:14because he is, as Christos says, the son of our head of state, the son of our king.
04:20And if there's any way to attack this country, it is through the son of our monarch.
04:29It seems blindingly obvious to me that the original Home Office decision to take away protection from him
04:37was quite simply wrong.
04:40You don't ask to be born into the royal family.
04:44It's something you have no control over.
04:46It just happens to you.
04:48OK, it's got huge pluses, and we might all be envious of those,
04:52but it has got quite a few negatives as well.