A British wildlife campaigner has helped rescue five bears from cramped cages at one of South Korea’s last remaining bile farms, flying them 5,500 miles to a new life in the UK.

TV farmer Jimmy Doherty played a key role in freeing the Asiatic black bears, which had spent more than 20 years confined behind rusting metal bars.

The bears — Bara, Rumi, Saebit, Yong-gi and Huimang — have since arrived at Jimmy’s Farm and Wildlife Park near Ipswich in Suffolk.

Announcing their arrival on social media on Wednesday, Jimmy said: ‘Six months ago, I stood in South Korea and met these bears for the first time.

‘I saw the cages they had lived in and made them a promise: I would do everything I could to bring them home.

‘Today, that promise has become a reality.’

The operation is the first relocation of moon bears to the UK.

After being removed from the farm, the animals recovered at a specialist veterinary facility and were declared fit enough to make the journey.

‘This is the beginning of the end of their long life in those terrible conditions on that terrible bile farm,’ said Jimmy, who is a patron of the wildlife charity Space for the Wild.

‘I can’t tell you how overjoyed we are. It’s been a long, long journey.’

The bears were transported in specially designed crates under the supervision of vets and experienced animal handlers.

They will now live in a purpose-built woodland reserve known as Moon Bear Islands, containing trees, grass, running water and pools.

The enclosure will allow the animals to forage, climb and swim after spending much of their lives standing on concrete.

Moon bears are Asiatic black bears named after the distinctive pale, crescent-shaped markings on their chests.

The five bears were reportedly taken from their mothers as cubs before being confined at the bile farm.

Bara, the oldest of the group, arrived there in 1998 and remained in the same filthy metal cage for 27 years.

He had reportedly never encountered a pool of water before his rescue, but began exploring a bath while recovering at the veterinary centre.

Siblings Yong-gi and Rumi spent almost two decades sharing a single barren cage, while Saebit was said to have protected the smaller Huimang during their years in captivity.

Jimmy said: ‘Seeing them trapped in tiny cages after decades on a bear bile farm was heartbreaking.’

Bear farming began in South Korea in the early 1980s, when animals were imported from Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia.

They were bred and kept for their bile and gallbladders which were used in traditional medicine and products believed to improve vitality.

The bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid, which can be used to treat some liver and gallstone conditions, although synthetic alternatives are widely available.

The industry grew significantly before falling out of favour amid concerns over animal cruelty and declining demand.

Around 1,000 bears were still being kept on South Korean farms in 2014.

A landmark agreement was reached between the government, farmers and animal welfare organisations in 2022 to bring the trade to an end.

Breeding bears, possessing them for farming and extracting their bile were formally banned from January 1, 2026.

The five bears relocated to Suffolk are among the first to be offered a permanent home overseas.

Jimmy warned: ‘There’s still much more to do.

‘There are still 200 bears left here in South Korea that need help.

‘We’re working with our counterparts here in South Korea to hopefully find more homes for those other bears.’

Space for the Wild and Jimmy’s Farm launched the Bears Behind Bars campaign to fund the animals’ release, veterinary care, transport and new reserve.

The appeal has raised more than £90,000 from around 3,700 donations.

The bears will initially be given time to settle away from visitors while their health and behaviour are closely monitored.

Members of the public will eventually be able to see them once keepers are satisfied they have adapted to their new surroundings.

Nearly four decades after Young Guns first brought Billy the Kid’s story to the big screen, a lineup of beloved 1980s stars sent fans into a frenzy with a reunion photo.

Emilio Estevez, a defining member of the Brat Pack generation, led the 1988 Western as the notorious outlaw. He was joined by an acclaimed ensemble that included his brother Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland.

The film follows Billy the Kid and the Regulators, a deputized posse in the American West, amid New Mexico’s Lincoln County War of 1877-78.

Several members of the hit movie’s cast came together at Fan Expo in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday. Dermot Mulroney, 62, shared photographs from the gathering and wrote: “38 years later… Young Guns rides again.”

Fans were quick to praise the actors—now in their 50s, 60s and beyond—for looking remarkably youthful.

Can you identify every star in the reunion lineup?

Mulroney was joined in the photos by fellow original Regulators Charlie Sheen, 61, Estevez, 64, Lou Diamond Phillips, 64, Casey Siemaszko, 65, and Sutherland, 59.

Also attending was Terry O’Quinn, 74, who portrayed lawyer Alex McSween in the film.

In the years since, the brigade of actors have experienced varying degrees of success.

Mulroney, who played ‘Dirty’ Steve Stephens, starred in the blockbuster romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding with Julia Roberts in 1997.

The actor has continued his romantic comedy career with such titles as The Wedding Date, Must Love Dogs (both 2005) and last year’s Anyone But You with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell.

The movie also reunited Mulroney with My Best Friend’s Wedding co-star Rachel Griffiths.

Sheen, who played Richard ‘Dick’ Brewer, is best known for his role in popular TV shows like Spin City, Two and a Half Men and Anger Management – as well as his colorful private life.

The youngest son of famed actor Martin Sheen, he expressed an interest in acting and filmmaking at a young age, making amateur films with his brothers and friends and future Hollywood stars Sean Penn and Rob Lowe. 

He got his big break in 1984’s Red Dawn and later went on to appear in other movies like the 1986 Vietnam War film Platoon and the 1987 drama Wall Street. 

After appearing in other films like Eight Men Out, Major League, Hot Shots! and Three Musketeers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he replaced Michael J Fox in the sitcom Spin City from 2000 to 2002, garnering critical acclaim for his performance.

He soon went on to find huge critical and commercial success in the TV show Two and a Half Men starting in 2003 but was terminated from the program in 2011 after a well-publicized battle with the show’s creator Chuck Lorre. However, this turned out to be only a temporary setback for Sheen, as he later starred in the popular sitcom Anger Management from 2012 to 2014.

In addition to his commercial success, Sheen has also found critical acclaim, earning wins and nominations for prestigious accolades like the Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards, SAG Awards, People’s Choice Awards and others.

Despite all of his critical and commercial success over the years, Sheen has often struggled publicly with drug and alcohol abuse and allegations of marital problems. He was also terminated from his role on Two and a Half Men in March 2011 following derogatory and controversial public comments about the show’s creator Chuck Lorre.

In November 2015, he finally revealed to the public that he was HIV positive after first being outed by the National Enquirer, and had been battling the disease for the previous four years. 

Estevez was credited with being the leader of the Brat Pack that also included the likes of Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson.

His break came in 1983 when he was cast in The Outsiders, which was a massive success and skyrocketed him into the spotlight.

He then starred in The Breakfast Club as Andrew Clark and St. Elmo’s Fire as Kirby ‘Kirbo’ Keger back-to-back in 1985, cementing his status in the Brat Pack.

After that, it seemed there was no slowing down for Emilio, and he landed a slew of roles including the drama That Was Then… This is Now, the horror flick Maximum Overdrive, the crime film Wisdom, the cop movie Stakeout, the sports drama The Mighty Ducks, as well as its follow-up flicks, the 1993 action movie Judgment Night, and the 2006 drama Bobby.

He also went on to become a successful director and screenwriter, spending more recent years behind the camera rather than in front of it.

But in 2018, he returned to the big screen for the movie The Public, which he wrote, directed, and starred in alongside Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, and Jena Malone.

He also reprised his role as Gordon Bombay in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers from 2021 to 2022. 

Sutherland, 59, who played Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock, and whose father is late cinema legend Donald Sutherland, found Hollywood fame in his own right in the late 80s.

His career flourished, but along with his dozens of starring roles, the actor had alcohol issues.

His antics have landed him in trouble before and, back in 2007, he pleaded guilty to his fourth DUI charge, according to the Daily Telegraph. In 2008, he spent 48 days in jail on a drunk-driving charge.

At the beginning of his own career, he had 11 hit movies on the bounce. Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Young Guns I and II, Flatliners.

He is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the Fox drama series 24 from 2001 to 2010, for which he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe.

Phillips rose to fame playing Ritchie Valens in the 1987 biopic La Bamba.

He later starred in Stand and Deliver, Young Guns and its sequel, Courage Under Fire and The Big Hit.

In 2018, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Siemaszko’s first film role was in the Rob Lowe vehicle Class (1983), which also featured John Cusack, Andrew McCarthy, and Alan Ruck.

He appeared with Sheen and Chad Lowe in Silence of the Heart (1984) and, the following year, in Secret Admirer (1985) with C Thomas Howell and Back to the Future (1985) with Michael J Fox.

He starred in Stand by Me (1986) alongside John Cusack, Corey Feldman, River Phoenix, Sutherland and Wil Wheaton. 

Siemaszko appeared in the Michael Mann film Public Enemies in 2009.

At the height of the pandemic, Sacramento pizza restaurant owner Daljit Khangura found it difficult to hire employees willing to reliably turn up for work. A friend then recommended Shalini Thakur.

“She came in and managed the business as though it were her own,” Khangura, 63, told the Daily Mail. “She really took charge. Her work ethic was exceptional.”

Thakur, 38, later moved on to a management role at IHOP, though she and Khangura stayed close. He saw her as the sister he never had, while she viewed him as a brotherly presence in her life.

That bond made the phone call Khangura received last week especially devastating. An IHOP manager called him and began to cry, immediately signaling that something terrible had happened to Thakur.

His fears were confirmed. Thakur was fatally shot in broad daylight on September 8. Authorities have accused Rohit Rohit, a 22-year-old Indian national who worked as a DoorDash driver and regularly collected orders from her IHOP location, of killing her.

Khangura said he suspected Rohit even before learning his name. According to him, Rohit had allegedly stalked and harassed Thakur for nearly a year before her death.

Soon after the killing, the Department of Homeland Security said Rohit entered the United States unlawfully through Arizona in August 2023. DHS officials said Border Patrol agents arrested him before he was released by the Biden administration, though no reason for his release was given.

Thakur’s killing is devastating on its own. It has also renewed attention on other cases involving women and girls killed by people who entered the United States illegally, prompting broader questions over immigration enforcement and public safety failures.

In February 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was attacked and murdered while jogging in Athens, Georgia. She was killed by José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan man who had entered the US illegally.

A few months later, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was raped and strangled to death in Houston, Texas. Two illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Johan José Martínez-Rangel and Franklin José Peña Ramos, were both charged with capital murder and are awaiting trial.

And around the same time that Rohit crossed the southern border in 2023, Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador while on a hiking trail in Bel Air, Maryland.

Rachel’s brother Michael had been thinking of Thakur long before he even heard her name.

‘During the search for Rachel, I repeatedly thought about the next woman,’ Michael told the Daily Mail. ‘That hasn’t changed.’

‘The point of learning from Rachel’s case should not be winning a political argument. It should be preventing another family from joining ours.’

But if that is the lesson Michael has been asking the country to learn since August 2023, it appears class is still in session.

Khangura remembered Thakur telling him about Rohit’s apparent ‘obsession’ with her when it first began in October 2025. Initially, she dismissed him as ‘just a kid’ but soon, she realized his frequent presence was much more sinister.

And Khangura was concerned. Over the winter, he confronted Rohit at the IHOP, telling the man to leave his friend alone.

But it was to no avail.

For nearly a year, Rohit stalked, threatened and harassed Thakur, hiding an Apple AirTag under the hood of her car, slashing her tires and vowing to kill them both. At one point, he even made a copy of her apartment key and let himself into her home while she was asleep.

‘She woke up and started screaming for him to get out,’ Khangura said.

Rohit’s ‘fixation’ with Thakur was so concerning that law enforcement urged her to seek a restraining order, which she did in May. Police were instructed to arrest Rohit if he violated the order, and on July 29, Thakur filed a report to deputies, informing them Rohit had left random grocery items at her front door – a violation of the order that protected her, her home and her work.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said deputies tried to contact Rohit after the restraining order violation was reported but that they were not successful.

On September 8, as Thakur was being dropped off at work, Rohit confronted her. When she tried to run away, he shot her multiple times. He then approached her where she lay grievously wounded and shot her in the head at close range. Rohit fled the scene and ultimately killed himself during a standoff with police.

‘Politicians in Sacramento have blood on their hands,’ Khangura said. ‘The police failed her. The system failed her.’

He believes Thakur’s death is a direct result of Sacramento’s status as a sanctuary city and urged elected officials to enact a law that would prevent these attacks.

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told the Daily Mail that California not only has strong stalking laws, but ones that become even more protective when a restraining order is in place.

A restraining order would prohibit a person from owning a gun and could send someone to state prison for up to four years if they were to violate the order.

‘Unfortunately, in [Thakur’s] case, law enforcement did not or could not arrest Rohit after he violated the restraining order in late July,’ Rahmani said.

‘The stalker and her victim were not in a relationship, so it’s not a domestic violence case, but there’s an old expression that today’s domestic violence and stalking is tomorrow’s murder and unfortunately that’s exactly what happened here.’

Khangura said the only politician who has reached out to Thakur’s family in the wake of the shooting was Steve Hilton, the California Republican running for governor.

When Michael heard about Thakur’s killing, his first thoughts were of her family.

‘I know what it is like to watch somebody you love suddenly become part of a national story,’ he said.

‘I do not want to use another family’s loss to make a political point. But [the] government should learn from cases like Rachel’s. If somebody presents warning signs or authorities have already encountered them, agencies need to communicate and act effectively.’

Victor Martinez-Hernandez, the 24-year-old who killed Rachel, had previously been connected to a 2023 home invasion in Los Angeles, during which he assaulted a nine-year-old girl and her mother. He had crossed the southern border into the US after he was wanted in El Salvador for the murder of another woman.

Martinez-Hernandez was arrested and deported three times – on January 19, January 31 and February 6 – before he successfully entered the US unlawfully on February 13 near El Paso, Texas.

Michael said that learning about Martinez-Hernandez’s history was ‘incredibly difficult.’

‘My reaction was not simply political. It was, how did this happen? How did somebody repeatedly encounter the system and still end up here?’

On August 5, 2023, Rachel – a mother of five children between 8 and 18 – went for a run on the Ma & Pa Trail that her family grew up going to.

The family lived near the trailhead, and often jogged there together. Michael remembers training with Rachel, helping her work on breathing and going further distances. Shannon Morin, Michael’s wife, remembers taking her kids there with Rachel and Rachel’s kids.

‘It was just a safe place we could walk with the kids,’ Shannon, who was friends with Rachel long before she married Michael, told the Daily Mail. ‘We could decompress, hang out and talk and spend time with our babies.’

Michael and Shannon even married at Liriodendron, a historic mansion located on the Heavenly Waters Park – the park through which the Ma & Pa Trail runs.

‘After Rachel was murdered, it became very difficult for me to separate the trail from what happened to her,’ Michael said. ‘For a long time, it felt as though the worst thing that happened there had taken ownership of the entire place.’

The weekend of Rachel’s killing, Michael, Shannon and most of their family had traveled down to Kentucky to attend the funeral of their newborn niece.

In the beginning, Shannon believed that the killer must have been someone they knew, someone who would have knowledge that her family would be out of town that day. But after police released surveillance footage, Shannon was certain that whoever had raped and murdered Rachel was a stranger.

On June 14, 2024 – after a 10-month nationwide manhunt – Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

‘I have never wanted Rachel to become merely a symbol for one political side or another. Immigration policy matters because policies have real consequences, but Rachel was a person before she was an immigration debate.’

To Rachel’s brother, the question is not partisan. The question is whether the system has learned enough from Rachel’s death to prevent another family from having to experience the same thing.

‘Not every person who enters this country illegally is violent, and I do not think it is truthful or helpful to pretend otherwise,’ he said. ‘My concern is what happens when there are repeated encounters, warning signs or evidence that somebody may present a danger.’

Today, Michael and Shannon are focused on remembering Rachel as the bubbly, funny, strong-willed and active person she was.

‘She was really positive and optimistic. She was always working on herself, growing, learning,’ Shannon said.

In August 2025, Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder, rape and third-degree sex offence and kidnapping. He will serve the entire sentence in a Maryland prison.

‘For a long time, we needed people to pay attention to the man who killed Rachel because we needed to find him. We needed his face shown. We needed people looking for him. We needed the public’s help,’ Michael said.

‘We do not need to find him anymore. I think part of finishing that conversation is taking him out of it.’

Perhaps then some progress might come from the tragedy as it did with Riley’s death, which spurred the Laken Riley Act. It that requires the federal detention of illegal immigrants who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer or any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person.

It was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump in his second term.

But for now, for Thakur’s family and friends, there is no avoiding the awful fact that whatever protection in law existed for Thakur, it was neither adequate nor enforced.

Khangura is still waiting to find out how Rohit was able to obtain a car and a gun, how he was able to work for DoorDash and why police did not arrest him before his actions proved fatal.

‘What’s it going to take for a politician to react?’ he asked. ‘Does it have to happen to their child? To their wife?

‘There has to be a law that will protect women.’

Meghan Markle appeared to pay a subtle tribute to Princess Diana when she selected the music for Prince Harry’s birthday post on Instagram yesterday.

The Duchess of Sussex, 45, celebrated Harry’s 42nd birthday by sharing nine never-before-seen photographs, accompanied by an indie-folk rendition of Tina Turner’s classic, ‘The Best’.

The choice is unlikely to have been accidental. The song holds deep personal meaning for both the Duke of Sussex and his older brother, the Prince of Wales, whose late mother was known to play it during drives that took them back to boarding school.

Prince William spoke about those memories in a 2021 episode of Apple Fitness+’s Time to Walk, explaining that Diana would put on music to ease her sons’ nerves as they returned to school.

“One of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and I still, to this day, still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner’s The Best, because sitting in the back seat, singing away, it felt like a real family moment,” the future King said.

William recalled Diana singing “at the top of her voice” as the music kept him and Harry distracted during the journey to Ludgrove School in Berkshire, until they arrived and “reality kind of sunk in”.

“You’d be singing and listening to the music right the way out into the gates of school, when they dropped you off,” he said. “And, and that’s when reality kind of sunk in that you really were going back to school because before that, you’re lost in songs.”

He added: “You’ll want to play it again just to keep that family moment going. And when I listen to it now, it takes me back to those car rides and brings back lots of memories of my mother.”

On Tuesday, the Duchess shared intimate insights into the Sussexes’ family life with the release of nine new pictures to celebrate Harry’s 42nd birthday. 

Meghan, who boasts 4.8million followers on Instagram, uploaded the sea of images of the prince with her and their children with the caption: ‘He’s simply the best. Happy birthday, my love,’ along with a heart emoji.

The montage is accompanied by husband-wife musical duo The Hound + The Fox’s cover of Simply the Best.

In one sweet snap, Harry is captured on an outdoor adventure with Meghan, 45, alongside Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, as well as their Labrador, Pula.

Believed to have possibly been taken at Earl Spencer’s home, Althorp, Harry is seen driving a quad bike down a narrow track with Lilibet and Archie sat on either side of an M&S food bag and Pula dutifully following behind. 

In another snap, Harry, who is wearing a Santa Barbara Fire Department cap, shared a kiss with Lilibet, who sported a bright headband and red and white patterned top, while enjoying a golf cart ride. 

In a sweet tribute to her mother, the 3D embellishments on Lilibet’s fashionable headband appear to be miniature Mahjong tiles – rectangular pieces used to play a traditional Chinese board game adored by the duchess.

Showcasing their close father-daughter bond, the montage also featured an image of Harry holding hands with Lilibet during a ski trip – with the young royal keeping warm in pink gloves and purple trousers, while her father donned black salopettes and a grey jacket.

Harry and Meghan are firm fans of the winter sport and often enjoy trips to the slopes together – including visits to Whistler Blackcomb in Canada and Montana’s Yellowstone Club.

One black-and-white photograph shared by Meghan showed the prince carrying Lilibet’s pink tasselled bicycle as they walked hand-in-hand.

In another, the young princess took a photograph of Harry, who playfully posed with a basket on his head, with a Polaroid camera as the family sat down for a dinner which appeared to include olives and fruit.

Proving she is quite the camerawoman, Lilibet drew comparisons to her aunt, the Princess of Wales, who is a keen amateur photographer and in 2015 became the first member of the Royal Family to take the official first images of a royal newborn.

Dressed in a pair of spotty pyjamas, Lilibet and her father were seen in another image enjoying a peaceful lake view from a balcony.

Meanwhile, Harry and his son Archie enjoyed some father-son bonding with a game of archery in another picture. The father-son duo wore matching outfits, including shorts and white T-shirts. 

Other images shared by the Duchess included an image of her and Harry sharing a warm embrace in a vineyard, while Archie is seen playing in the background.

Meghan chose a striking black-and-white photograph of the Duke, wearing sunglasses and a hat while looking out ahead deep in thought, as the first image of the carousel post. 

Some royal fans have suggested the snap may have been taken by the Sussexes’ go-to photographer and close friend, Misan Harriman, who has documented key events in their lives and is renowned for his black-and-white images.

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Soon after Meghan marked Harry’s birthday online, it emerged that the Duchess’s mobile number was reportedly being shared by parents at the school that Archie and Lilibet had just started. 

In a further security blow to the couple, screenshots from a WhatsApp group titled ‘Year 3’ that Meghan joined were said to be circulating online.

An alleged screenshot of the chat showed the duchess introducing herself with a message reading: ‘Hi moms! Thanks for the warm welcome [heart emoji]. So happy to be a part of this community xx’

The Sussexes refused to comment, but sources close to them said it was disappointing that fellow parents would seek to share such information.

Meghan is understood to have joined the group the night before Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet started at the school.

It emerged after Harry and Meghan decided to ‘reluctantly’ remove their children from the school they had just started over security fears regarding traffic.

The family’s bodyguards warned the couple that the busy commute was placing their unit ‘under strain’.

Rush hour meant the drive – supposed to take around 35 minutes – lasted as long as an hour, while on one journey a convoy carrying the prince and princess is said to have become separated, leaving the children ‘sitting ducks’ in stationary traffic.

One mother with two children at the school said Harry and Meghan’s decision to send their children there had been a coup and had excited many parents. But she added: ‘Parents at the school are completely baffled. You don’t need to be an expert to know how congested that area is. It’s one of the worst places to drive in the UK.’

Another mother said of the slow school run: ‘This was obviously going to happen.’

News of the WhatsApp leak was initially reported by The Sun.

Friends of the couple stressed that the decision to withdraw the children was not an issue with the school itself.

Archie and Lilibet will now join another school where they have already attended taster sessions. The Sussexes’ security, meanwhile, are said to be much happier that the new school will be a shorter commute from the family home.

But the fiasco has sparked questions over why the family’s drivers only tested the route during the summer holidays, amid claims that their return to the UK was ‘rushed’.

Their private protection team were seemingly unable to properly assess the hour-long journey to the unnamed school after the Sussexes announced the move in late August.

Former Met Police Chief Superintendent Dal Babu said: ‘It does beggar belief why they haven’t thought this through. I don’t think he [Harry] has helped himself or the situation by not arranging things in good time.’

Former head of royal protection Dai Davies also told LBC radio: ‘If you keep a low profile, most people outside the school wouldn’t know where you are, what they’re doing, and all the rest of it.

‘Do they really need to go in convoy with two little children on the school run? If they only just kept a little quieter, kept a lower profile, they’d be a lot safer in my view.’

The dramatic schools development came as it emerged that Harry’s demand for taxpayer-funded police protection is being ‘reviewed’ now he is back in Britain. 

The duke and duchess are said to have been informed that ‘a decision’ was made at a meeting last week to examine the threat to both of them.

The prince has been at loggerheads with the Home Office for years over its decision to remove his automatic right to security. Harry has long argued that he was born a prince and needs police protection when in the UK.

But he lost a series of legal battles against the Home Office which deemed he had forfeited the right to be able to call at will on taxpayer-funded protection after he quit as a frontline royal in 2020 and moved to a new life in California.

Only last year, after yet another defeat at the Royal Courts of Justice – against his father His Majesty’s government – the prince declared in a petulant BBC interview that he could not imagine a time when he could safely bring his family to his country of birth.

But now that he has had a sudden change of heart, bringing Meghan, Archie and Lilibet to live in the UK, his access to police protection is being reviewed, it was reported on Monday evening.

The decision is said to involve reviewing the risks to Prince Harry and also to his wife.