Prince Harry in court to challenge the loss of British security details

London – London (AP) – Prince Harry was unjustly treated when he was stripped of his British security detail, his lawyer said on the court of appeal on Tuesday.

Harry, who made a rare appearance before the court for the hearing, lost his protection funded by the government in February 2020 after leaving his role as a member of the royal family and moved to the United States

A judge of the High Court ruled last year that the decision of a government panel to provide “tailor -made” security to Harry if necessary was not illegal, irrational or unjustified.

But lawyer Shaheed Fatima has argued that a group that assessed the safety needs of the Duke of Sussex did not follow his own process and carry out an assessment of risk management.

“The appellant does not accept that tailor -made means better,” said Fatima. “In fact, in his submission, this means that he was distinguished for a different, unjustified and inferior treatment.”

Harry, whose titles include the Duke of Sussex, wore a navy blue suit and a light blue tie when he was sitting behind his lawyer. His surprise appearance was an indication of the importance of the case for him.

Harry, 40, the youngest son of King Charles III, shaken up the convention of the royal family by taking the government and the press at Tabloids in the court, where he has a mixed file.

But Harry rarely appears in court, making only a few appearances in the past two years. This included the trial of one of his phone hacking cases against the British tabloids when he was the first senior member of the royal family to enter the witnesses box for more than a century.

Harry said that he and his family were in danger when they visited his homeland due to hostility aimed at him and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on social networks and thanks to the incessant hunting by the media.

He lost a related judicial case in which he asked for permission to pay private police in private, while in the United Kingdom, but a judge denied this offer after a government lawyer argued that officers should not be used as “private bodyguards for the rich”.

He also abandoned a defamation case against the Daily Mail publisher for an article which said that he had tried to hide his efforts to continue to receive security funded by the government.

But he won an important victory at the trial in 2023 against the publisher of the Daily Mirror when a judge found that the hacking of the tabloid was “widespread and usual”. He won a “monumental” victory in January, when the British tabloids of Rupert Murdoch made unprecedented apologies to get into his life for years and agreed to pay substantial damage to settle his invasion of privacy.

He has a similar case pending against the mail publisher.