Prince Harry would have made “further representations directly” to Ravec, the body that deprived him of his security escort, had he been given the “relevant information”, his lawyer has said.

In continued written submissions, Prince Harry’s lawyer Shaheed Fatima KC told the High Court: “In 2020 the claimant stood to be deprived of an existing ‘benefit’ of the upmost importance but he was not given any, or any proper, opportunity to make informed representations directly to Ravec before the February 2020 decision.”

Ms Fatima continued: “A person in the claimant’s position – who is the subject of a Ravec decision which will directly affect his safety, rights and interests, and involve the removal of the prior provision of State security – is entitled to be informed, at the start of the decision-making process, what the relevant policy is and how it is operated/applied, so that they may make informed submissions to Ravec.”

This didn’t happen, she claimed, and said instead Harry’s knowledge of the process was “limited”.