Prince Harry could request security protection in the US, but here's why he might not get it

In Prince Harry’s explosive memoir Spare, he makes the shocking revelation that he killed 25 Taliban while on deployment in Afghanistan. Some have said the claim has put him and his family at greater risk of an attack.

Security protection in the US?

The Duke of Sussex has long been fighting for security protection for himself and his family in the UK. Taxpayer-funded security was taken from him at the end of March 2020 when he and his wife Meghan Markle officially resigned from Royal duties. He even offered to pay for police protection himself. The lack of which was one of his reasons for leaving the UK for the US with Meghan and their son, Archie.

Now, former CIA counter-terrorism officer Bruce Riedel has claimed to The Sun that the Prince could ‘make a case’ to receive security protection in the US as a ‘distinguished foreign guest’. Riedel, who is now a senior fellow for the think tank Brookings Institution, continued:

Some ambassadors are given special protection. It would help if the British government weighed in. He has taken a risk in his statement about killing 25 Taliban but it is not a big risk.

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Why Prince Harry is not at great risk?

He went on to explain why the Duke is not at great risk from an attack by the Taliban in the US:

The Taliban do not have an international reach and especially not in the United States.

In twenty years of war with America they never operated in the US.

An angry Afghan American acting on his own might be a threat but most of the Afghan American community is against the Taliban.

After Prince Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020, then-President Donald Trump hit out at the couple, declaring that the US Government would not fund their security. The pair responded that they had ‘no plans to ask the US government for security resources’.

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Sources used:

- Express: 'Royal Family LIVE: Harry could 'make case' for US security after his Taliban kill claim'

- The Sun: 'MORE PROTECTION? Prince Harry could ask for security boost from U.S. after boasting about killing Taliban fighters, ex CIA official says'