Prince Harry chillingly insinuated his downgraded security status could leave him and his family to suffer the same fate as the late Princess Diana, who died in a fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.
In his bombshell interview with the BBC, Harry, 40, also warned that without the same security provisions given to other senior members of the royal family, he has become a greater risk to ‘some people’ who wish him harm.
Speaking about his fears for himself, wife Meghan and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, he declared: ‘I don’t want history to repeat itself. Through the [court] process, I have discovered that some people want history to repeat itself.’
Harry was aged just 12 when Diana was killed along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and her driver and security guard Henri Paul, in the early hours of August 31, 1997.
Diana suffered fatal injuries when the Mercedes-Benz car they were travelling in crashed into the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in the French capital.
A later inquest in 2008 concluded that Diana, 36, had been unlawfully killed by the ‘grossly negligent driving’ of Paul, who was being chased by a swarm of paparazzi vehicles at the point of the crash.
Harry yesterday raged that ‘the other side’ in the court case had ‘won in keeping me unsafe’, as England’s second most senior judge slapped down his Appeal Court bid to reinstate his police bodyguards when in the UK.
He added: ‘I’m sure that some people out there, probably most likely the people that wish me harm, consider this a huge win.’