Royal reporter Kinsey Schofield urged Earl Spencer on Talk TV to use any profits from his memoir to fund Prince Harry’s security after he backed police protection for his nephew.
Earl Spencer has been told to cough up for Harry’s security in a scathing blast following the publication of his book.
Royal correspondent Kinsey Schofield tore into Spencer’s memoir for profiting from his deceased sister and insisted that if he feels so strongly about Harry’s protection, he should personally finance it using his book earnings.
The royal expert told Talk TV that if Spencer is “making millions and millions of dollars off your dead sister” then the “least you can do is fund Harry’s security”.
The swipe at the earl follows his assertion that Harry and his wife Meghan deserve official protection because they face similar media treatment to how his sister was hounded in the years before her death.
Speaking to the BBC he said: “I would say that I personally worry about the fifth in line to the throne who’s served in the military not having any police protection.”
He told Laura Kuenssberg: “From a security aspect, as an uncle who’s seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, I would veer towards protection.”
The earl added that the tabloid treatment of Diana, and Harry and Meghan, could be “really, really unpleasant” and therefore it was “beholden on people” to learn from the past.
Following the Sussexes’ relocation to the UK, the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, Ravec, convened last week and will now decide whether the couple qualify for state-funded security. This follows the couple’s decision to move Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet from their school after merely two days owing to security worries.
Harry’s automatic high-level protection was stripped away when he departed from his duties as a working royal in 2020.
Upon his return to the UK in late August, the King made it evident that the pair would still be unable to utilise the titles of “His and Her Royal Highness”, and would remain “private citizens”, in correspondence sent on Charles’s behalf by the Lord Chamberlain, a senior Palace official.
The King’s correspondence added that any enquiries regarding the reception to be afforded to the Sussexes, “particularly where recourse to public funds may be required, should be directed to Buckingham Palace”.
Discussing William and Harry, Earl Spencer said: “I’m on my deceased sister’s sons’ side, both of them. And if either of them wanted anything, then I’d be equally there for them.
“And I never get involved in one camp or the other, except as a benign figure, I hope.”
In the Talk TV clip, presented by Jeremy Kyle, the broadcaster said he “can’t believe” that Harry and Spencer aren’t in “cahoots”.
Kinsley added that the earl said “both princes were aware what I was going to write”, though the presenters claimed they doubt William would have permitted the damaging remarks about his father to be published.