Harry accuses security chief of withholding al-Qaeda terrorist threat from him after UK return

Prince Harry has accused a senior security official of deliberately concealing an al-Qaeda threat against him and his family, while his lawyers have separately written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to intervene personally to secure taxpayer-funded police protection for the Sussexes. Since flying into Birmingham last week, the couple's only protection beyond a police liaison phone number has been unarmed private bodyguards — leaving Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, without any armed cover.

Harry's lawyers argue that Mahmood holds ministerial responsibility to Parliament for protective security policy and therefore has the power to request that the Ravec committee fast-track its review of the Sussexes' case.

Friends say Harry returned to Britain 'spitting blood' at certain royals, still expects an apology, and is 'just as angry' as when he left six years ago.

The security row erupts as the 29th anniversary of Diana's death falls on Monday, days after Harry took Archie and Lilibet to her Althorp grave for the first time.