Sussexes called Police 9 times to mansion over security concerns

It has been revealed that police have been called to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's £11 million California mansion multiple times since the couple moved in to the property.

Police have been called to the house nine times in as many months, according to The Guardian, due to phone requests, alarm activations, and property crimes. In July alone, Santa Barbara police were called four times, once as a phone request and the others classsified as “alarm activations”, all of which occurred in the early hours of the morning.

Since then, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office has replied to a number of alerts, including twice during Christmas to apprehend a trespasser who had traveled from Ohio to the Sussexes' house.

The most recent call, which was classified as an alarm activation, came at 2.21 a.m. on February 16th. The alarm system on the property has been activated five times.

The data was accessed by the PA news agency under Freedom of Information laws after the pair revealed their security concerns in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During the couple's Oprah interview earlier this year, they discussed their concerns over security arrangements.

Meghan, who is expecting her second child, said she sent letters to Harry's family pleading with them not to remove his personal security agents, telling them that he was receiving death threats.

When Prince Harry revealed the pair would be standing down from royal duties, the royals cut him off financially, leaving him, his wife, and their son Archie without a security team.

“I was born into this position. I inherited the risk. So that was a shock to me,” he said.

He explained the move by saying, “Their justification was a change in status. To which I pushed back and said, ‘Is there a change in threat or risk?'”

They are liable for the management and expense of their security now that they are no longer serving members of the royal family.

Former Metropolitan Police royalty security unit chief superintendent Dai Davies said the couple's intentions were “utterly unrealistic” and may have placed British police in danger.

Mr Davies was ‘gobsmacked' that the pair wanted British citizens to foot the bill, which is believed to be £4 million a year.

‘It was utterly unrealistic to think they could continue to have their royal protection team working in America – in fact it would have put their [police] lives at risk,' he said.

Under US rule, UK officers are not allowed to bear weapons or have access to information regarding possible attacks.