What exactly does the managing director of a Liverpool-based security firm know about the subtleties of protecting royalty, or protection generally ( When a bodyguard comes too , 18 February)? Your ” Les Dawson ” visual caricature is sadly the perceived image of a bodyguard: overweight, follically bereft, with polished skull and fake Ray Bans. Close protection is all about the securing of information and a bottomless pit of flexibility, vital to a positive professional relationship and workable chemistry, that negates the need for oppressive advance parties to scan U-bends of restaurant urinals, or armies of black-suited clones all rushing to the hand dryers, trying to be inconspicuous, in order to fend off fixated loiterers. Prince Harry, following a few Bacardi chasers, would almost certainly gesture to his bodyguard seated discreetly at the bar with antenna alert and nose in a bowl of house pasta, to join him for a Valentine’s Day drink, thus providing the best protection of all – a style and practice inherited from his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. Ken Wharfe Personal protection officer to Princes William & Harry and Princess Diana, 1986-94 Prince Harry Prince William Diana, Princess of Wales guardian.co.uk
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