Police were reportedly alerted to two intruder scares at Harry and Meghan’s California mansion in just 12 days.
The couple and their two children Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, were believed to be at their home in Montecito when the alarms went off. The sun reports
Santa Barbara police records show authorities rushed to the $19 million home on the couple’s wedding anniversary on May 19 at 5:44 p.m. for a report of an intruder.
They responded to a second intruder alert on May 31 at 3.21pm, just hours before the family boarded a private jet back to Britain for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The California security scare comes as Harry, 37, was granted permission to sue the UK Home Office, claiming he does not feel safe in the UK after his taxpayer-funded bodyguards were removed
The duo have renewed a lease on Frogmore Cottage as their UK home.
It receives 24-hour armed police protection as it is located within the Queen’s Windsor Estate.
While they were in the United States, they employed former President Barack Obama’s former bodyguard, Christopher Sanchez, and Michael Jackson’s former security chief, Alberto Alvarez.
Police records show there have been six security alert calls to his home in the United States in the past 14 months.
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Both calls in May were logged as “intruders,” “property crimes” and “suspicious circumstances.”
Police responded a second time as the couple’s security team asked for “documentation of an intruder, who left.”
Royal expert Angela Levin, Harry’s biographer, said: “Perhaps Harry should focus more on safety in California rather than complaining about his safety in Britain.
“After two intruder alerts in 12 days, surely he should make protecting his family in the US his priority.”
There have been four other calls to police in the past 14 months.
On April 9, 2021, officers were dispatched at 2:52 a.m. to a call, but were called off because “no assistance was required.”
On New Year’s Day this year, at 1:43 a.m., the alarm went off “in error” and a patrol car was dispatched.
It is unclear whether the Sussexes were home at the time.
Police were then called on April 8 at 10:41 a.m. but did not attend because the call “belonged to another agency.”
Then, on June 8, at 1:17 p.m., there was a “miscellaneous office”, but again the officers did not attend.
The incidents are not the first at the Sussexes’ home.
On Christmas Eve 2020, a man allegedly broke in and returned on Christmas Day before being arrested.
Prince Harry launched legal action last September seeking a judicial review after his UK security was withdrawn.
The review was granted on Friday.
No date has been set for the High Court hearing.
This article originally appeared in The Sun and is reproduced with permission
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