According to a top security officer, Meghan Markle's life was in danger in the UK - why don't we ever believe women? 👉
Turns out, this was not an exaggeration. In a new interview Neil Basu, the former head of the counterterrorism unit for the Metropolitan Police, who rose to the senior-most role in that department just before Meghan and Harry's wedding, opened up about the very real dangers Markle faced.
The threats against both Meghan and Harry were “disgusting and very real,” said Basu in a Channel 4 sit-down, noting that the “threat of extreme right-wing terrorism” is fast-growing in the country, perByAbout Markle specifically, Basu noted, “If you’d seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it, the kind of rhetoric that’s online…you would feel under threat all of the time.”
“People have been prosecuted for those threats,” Basu added. Suffice it to say, this was more than bad press and trolling: Meghan Markle had good reason to be scared.These latest comments only confirm what Prince Harry has been saying all along, which is that he moved his family to California first and foremost for safety. As, “I will always protect my family…that's not me being paranoid; that's just me not wanting a repeat of the past.
And the move, unfortunately, hasn't fixed everything. When they first arrived in the Golden State, the couple iconically stayed at Tyler Perry's compound, because he had security. And when considering trips back to the UK,
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