Apprentice star Ryan Mark-Parsons has demanded Prince Harry ‘reimburses the taxpayer’ after losing his UK security court case.
The Duke of Sussex was ordered to pay 90 per cent of the Home Office’s legal fees after his bid to appeal the decision to remove his right to automatic police protection when he moved abroad.
After two and a half years of legal travails, his claim was dismissed and Mark-Parsons told GB News it is now time for the Duke to ‘shut up’.
“He needs to reimburse the taxpayer”, he said.
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“He now faces a bill of up to one million pounds. This is after he took the Home Office to court over not being given the same level of protection when he left the UK in 2020.
“The judge unequivocally threw out the case after saying he ‘comprehensively lost’. It’s high time we say goodbye to Prince Harry.
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“He needs to shut up. He keeps reemerging. He’s this whiny, annoying, ginger freak that needs to go away.
“He needs to vanish. I think a lot of people would agree with me. We’re always talking about Harry and Meghan Markle.”
The Duke took legal action against the Home Office over the decision in 2020 taken by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of taxpayer-funded protection when in the country.
His High Court challenge ended in failure and his initial bid to bring an appeal was refused.
In the initial decision to refuse the duke the go-ahead to appeal, High Court judge Sir Peter Lane said Harry’s appeal bid was “largely a recapitulation of the case advanced by the claimant at trial”.
He continued: “The reality of the matter is that the claimant considers he should receive a different approach to his protection whilst in the UK than Ravec decided he should, based in part on his comparison of his own position with that of others.
“Ravec, as an expert body, concluded otherwise. It was entitled to do so.”
The Duke is still able to ask the Court of Appeal directly for the green light to bring an appeal.
Harry, who was not present during the hearing in December, lives in the United States with wife Meghan and their two children after the couple announced they were stepping back as senior royals in January 2020.
He returned briefly to the UK on February 6 without his family after making a transatlantic dash to be with his father following the shock news of the King’s cancer diagnosis.