Paparazzi chased Prince Harry and his wife for two hours after they left an event in New York last week. According to their taxi driver, Sukhcharn Singh, who dropped them at the 19th Precinct in Manhattan, the couple were terrified at the unruly behaviour of paparazzi.
The couple’s spokesperson said the chase on Tuesday could also have been fatal and involved paparazzi driving on the sidewalk, running red lights, and driving while taking pictures. “I don’t think there’s many of us who don’t recall how, how his mom died,” Adams told reporters. “And it would be horrific to lose an innocent bystander during a chase like this and something to have happened to them as well.”
Harry has never hidden his dislike for the press, fuelled by the treatment his mother received and by his own experiences, particularly when he was young. He is also challenging the process by which the Home Office declined to provide him with taxpayer-supported protection – a claim that has yet to be decided.
As a working royal, the prince said that he never traveled without three armed bodyguards. During negotiations with palace officials over his new status, Harry, who wrote a memoir, pleaded for the bodyguards to be left in place, even if he lost the other entire royal perks. “I offered to defray the cost of security out of my own pocket. I wasn’t sure how I’d do that, but I’d find a way.”