Stump up for Harry’s protection? That’s rich!
WhAT a shock it must have been for the duke of Sussex to learn that his adopted host nation Canada would no longer foot part of the bill for his family’s police protection.
how could this be? harry’s and Meghan’s bestie, PM justin Trudeau, had welcomed them warmly in december. And the country is a second home to Meghan; it’s where she found happiness and fame on the TV series Suits.
What’s more, it is a member of the Commonwealth, for which harry and Meghan were devoted youth ambassadors. But they were forced to relinquish their roles after stepping away from royal duties.
Perhaps harry doesn’t understand that Commonwealth means just that — common wealth, shared between people. hard-working people striving to pay their taxes for the common good. People who see no reason why they should stump up to protect a wealthy and impetuous prince and his family who are living in a vast £14 million mansion.
Whatever justin Trudeau promised harry and Meghan, he is ultimately a servant of the people — and poll after poll in Canada has shown no one wants to pay taxes for the Sussexes. Welcome to the real world, harry! he can’t have it both ways. he rushed back to Britain, insisting he’s just an ordinary bloke without royal trappings — ‘Call me harry’ he told us at an eco event in edinburgh.
But normal blokes don’t live in mansions, they don’t take over an entire first-class carriage to travel to that eco event as harry did, and they certainly don’t expect to make a fortune and have police protection paid for by the taxpayer.
It’s clear that harry is trying to do what he thinks is best for his family. And that is commendable. But everything he and Meghan do seems to blow up in their faces because they just don’t seem to think.
They lecture us on climate change, then whisk off in a private jet. They ‘reach out’ to the poor, then she jets across the Atlantic for an obscenely expensive baby shower in New York. They leave the Royal Family — then argue that he deserves the perks.
Well, not at our expense you don’t, harry. We’re prepared to stump up for the royals who give good value.
But harry and Meghan have forsaken that privilege — which is why we should refuse to step in after Canada’s police step down.