For lovers of self-destructive hubris – a quality that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex surely possess in spades – the saga of Prince Harry’s security is surely the gift that keeps on giving. Not since Jeremy Thorpe ensured that his former lover Norman Scott was deprived of his National Insurance card has anyone publicly expressed a grievance with so much fervour and repetitiveness as Harry’s attempts to obtain taxpayer-funded armed protection whenever he brings his family back to Britain. But now, in this season of miracles, it looks as if he might have got his wish, after all.

It seemed certain, after various expensive and amusingly humiliating courtroom defeats, that Harry’s desire to hire members of the Met as his private security detail whenever he is back in the country of his birth w

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