Prince Harry has been accused of "picking his battles" after travelling to war-torn Ukraine despite his legal battle against the Home Office for better security protection - claiming his former home country is "unsafe".
The Duke of Sussex met with victims of the conflict at the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, just days after flying to the UK to attend his court appeal.
The visit, according to the official Sussex website, was a "powerful reflection of the shared mission between the Center and the Invictus Games Foundation".
Discussing his decision to fly to Ukraine amid his court battle with the Home Office, Broadcaster Sarah-Louise Robertson claimed the royal is "entitled" and is "picking his battles".
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Robertson told GB News: "I think this is just Prince Harry being the entitled prince once again. He's always bleating about something or other, complaining that he's got the hardest lot in life.
"He wants to be able to have British police officers with guns because he says his life is a threat. But what I will say is, Prince Harry, did you think about that when you boasted in your autobiography Spare about killing Al-Qaeda members while fighting as a soldier in Afghanistan? No."
Criticising his recent trip to Ukraine, Robertson added: "He's requesting to have this protection in place when he comes back to the UK, but has it stopped him going into what you could argue is a war zone?
"He went to Ukraine last week - so you have to wonder, does he pick his battles?"
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Harry met with war victims at the Superhumans Center in LvivSussex.comOffering a defence for Prince Harry, broadcaster Cristo Foufas argued that the UK "doesn't want a situation" where Prince Harry or his family are "harmed in any way by an Al-Qaeda terror group".
Foufas explained: "I think that as a couple, they're awful. I really do think they're awful - they have capitalised on being quite talentless. For them to have done racism accusations when the late Queen and Prince Philip were seriously ill, I think is absolutely dreadful.
"But I have some sympathy for this position, because he will always be the son of the King. He will always have served the country. Do we really want a situation - as annoying, as irritating, as ridiculous their TV shows and bleating on actually are - do we really want a situation where we allow a muslim terror group, Al-Qaeda, to get such a win in hurting him?
"No one would want that. No one would want to give that propaganda benefit and win to Al-Qaeda, so I have sympathy for that position."
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In further defence of Prince Harry, Labour MP Barry Gardiner argued that the Duke's trip to Ukraine was not to "flaunt in a war zone", but to meet "veterans of the war" who have been affected by Russia's conflict.
Barry concluded: "He's a young man who fought for this country, and I respect him for that. He's a young man who, having seen some of his friends disfigured and become limbless, set up his charity, and I respect him for that.
"He went to Ukraine not to flaunt himself in a war zone, but actually to visit some of the veterans of that war who had been injured and lost limbs as well, and I respect him for that."
He added: "He should have taxpayer-funded protection in this country because he is the son of our King. And if there's any way to attack this country, it is through the son of of our monarch. And it seems blindingly obvious to me that the original Home Office decision to take away protection from him was, quite simply, wrong."
