Princess Diana’s Former Bodyguard Lee Sansum: Prince Harry Should Have Royal Protection

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Royally protected. Princess Diana’s former bodyguard, Lee Sansum, is sharing how he really feels about the late royal’s son Prince Harry not having proper security in Great Britain.“I don’t know what the stumbling block is there … I totally get it when he is back in the U.K.,” Sansum, 60, shared with Us Weekly exclusively while promoting his latest book, Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story, which will be released on Tuesday, August 30.Prince Harry, 37, has spoken openly about the challenges he’s faced both during his royal tenure and after his February 2021 exit from the British monarchy to acquire proper security for his family while in England.The Duke of Sussex, who hired a private security team in the U.S., issued a statement in January detailing the “threat” he and his family still face when they return to the U.K.

Harry shares son Archie, born in 2019, and daughter Lilibet, born in 2021, with wife Meghan Markle.“He should have protection.

I don’t get why he isn’t given it,” Sansum continued about the royal whom he once protected as a young child.The author began serving as the Princess of Wales’ bodyguard through his assignment as security for her partner at the time, Dodi al-Fayed.

Sansum noted that it was a “very interesting question” as to why the U.K. native didn’t have royal protection at the time of her death in August 1997 in a car crash in Paris.“A lot of people say she didn’t want it.