Andrew is currently facing a fate that many are calling even worse than Prince Harry.
Author and security expert Richard Aitch is the one who made this comment in a chat with The mirror.
According to the expert, “It’s going to be a very difficult situation for both Andrew and also the police to make a decision about what’s going on because they have to tread very carefully and remember what their response was to Harry. Now Andrew is in an even worse situation than Harry right now.”
Because “when you consider that all former Prime Ministers who no longer serve the country still receive police protection at British taxpayers’ expense until the day they die, one must first question the fact that Prince Harry is fifth in line to the throne and gets nothing in Britain, really, even though [RAVEC] say on a case-by-case basis.”
“And then on the flip side, how can the police realistically provide a level of security for Andrew when he’s eighth in line to the throne and in a worse situation?” he wondered.
After all, in an incredibly public move “he’s been stripped of his titles, stripped of his duties, even if it was a decision by Harry not to participate in royal duties as such, the actual function has been stripped from Andrew – he can’t. And literally, he’s a civilian like everyone else in Britain, so by that fact alone he shouldn’t be receiving police protection.”
He also added: ‘I’m sure if you sit down with members of RAVEC’s committee and ask them, ‘what will Andrew receive in terms of police protection? Is there a concern there?’ and so on, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they turned around and said the exact same thing they’re doing with Harry, as far as it would be on a case-by-case basis.”
However, the only way Andrew would be granted protection appears to be “through a default if Andrew were to appear at the same time [as the Firm’s members at events]he would in effect also receive some level of protection.”
But that doesn’t mean he would be left to his own devices completely, Mr Aitch said.
“Andrew will still receive, I think, an oversight in terms of his protection because the consequences, if for example he was attacked in the street and it was fatal, the questions would still be asked – ‘what’s going on here? Isn’t there a duty of care to members of the royal family, eighth in line, brother to the king for God’s sake’, why don’t we do something about it? And of course the last thing the royal family wants is another investigation into what’s going on and who gets what,” he concluded by saying.
