00:00Royal Family Targeted by 500 Stalkers in Three Years
00:04Being part of the Royal Family can be scary due to stalkers and threats.
00:09According to the Mirror, specialist protection officers identified 500 potential stalkers within the past three years.
00:16Unfortunately, there will always be deranged people who want to do harm to the Royal Family,
00:21former head of the Met's Royal Protection Command, Di Davies, told the outlet.
00:25The difficult job for the police is determining which of them have the means and determination to go through with any plan.
00:32There are probably 50 to 100 people they are currently monitoring who they feel could pose a significant risk, Di Davies continued.
00:40Quite often these people will be mentally unwell, and some will be quite unsophisticated.
00:45It's not unknown that these people will be so obsessed they have written to the object of their fixation and revealed their own name and address.
00:51In order to keep the royals safe, authorities gather information on potential stalkers from the public and reports.
00:58These pinpointed risks are only the ones that have been brought to the attention of the authorities, Di Davies said.
01:04There may be many more lurking in the shadows.
01:07It is impossible for the police to be 100% confident of weeding out all the people who might want to harm the Royal Family.
01:13Over the years, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have stressed that the UK is dangerous for their family.
01:19Neil Basu, outgoing assistant commissioner at the Met, told Channel 4 that the Duchess of Sussex was subjected to disgusting threats.
01:27He later called Meghan and Harry's claims of feeling under threat all the time credible.
01:32In his security battle, Prince Harry shared his fears about bringing Meghan Markle and their two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, to the UK.
01:40It's still dangerous, and all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read, Harry said, per people.
01:50And whether it's a knife or acid, whatever it is, and these are things that are of genuine concern for me,
01:56it's one of the reasons why I won't bring my wife back to this country.
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