Buckingham Palace shuts down claims it can step in on Harry’s security

Prince Harry’s security arrangements are still being reviewed and Buckingham Palace will not have any power to change the final decision, a royal aide has said.

The review is being handled by the official committee responsible for protecting royals and public figures, Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec), and the process is still ongoing, according to GB News.

The aide rejected claims that the Palace could step in if the outcome went against Harry, the Duke of Sussex, saying security decisions are made only by trained experts.

After rumours broke that Harry is “confident” of a positive outcome and even if the results came against him, the palace would step in, a royal aide said the claims are “both unjust and inaccurate.”

“The palace has no such powers within Ravec. While they sit on the committee it is not their role to advise on threat analysis or appropriate mitigations,” they said.

“That is for the actual intelligence and security experts to advise on — as of course they do whenever the duke’s visits to the UK are being reviewed under the existing Ravec process.”

A source familiar with the proceedings of Harry’s case said, “I have no idea what the RMB (risk management board) recommendation to Ravec (the Royal and VIP executive committee) will be, but what I do know with certainty is that neither does anyone else, since they are still undertaking the review.”

They added, “On that basis, claims that a decision is already ‘nailed on’ seem more like an attempt to manipulate the media into manifesting an outcome from what will be a fair and rigorous review, but one that is very much still ongoing.

“Whoever is behind them must not realise how transparent and counter-productive to proper process that is.”