Meghan and Harry in security breach as two intruders target Montecito mansion in 12 days
COPS were alerted to two intruder scares at Harry and Meghan’s California mansion in just 12 days, The Sun can reveal.
The couple and their two children Archie, three, and one-year-old Lilibet, were believed to be at their Montecito home when the alarms were triggered.
Santa Barbara Police records show cops raced to the £11million home on the couple’s wedding anniversary, May 19, at 5.44pm to a trespasser report.
They answered a second intruder alert on May 31 at 3.21pm — just hours before Harry and Meghan caught a private jet back to Britain for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The California security scares come as Harry, 37, won permission to sue the Home Office, claiming he does not feel safe in the UK after his taxpayer-funded bodyguards were removed.
The duo have renewed a lease on Frogmore Cottage as their UK home.
Read More on Prince Harry
It receives 24-hour armed police protection as it is inside the Queen’s Windsor estate.
While in the US, they have employed ex-President Barack Obama’s former bodyguard Christopher Sanchez and Michael Jackson’s former security chief Alberto Alvarez.
Police records show there have been six security alert calls to their US home in the past 14 months.
Both calls in May were logged as “trespasser”, “property crimes” and “suspicious circumstances”.
Most read in Celebrity
Cops responded the second time as the couple’s security team requested “documentation of a trespasser, who left”.
Royal expert Angela Levin, Harry’s biographer, said: “Maybe Harry should concentrate more on the security in California rather than making complaints about his security in Britain.
“After two intruder alerts in 12 days, surely he should be making the protection of his family in the US his priority.
There were four other calls to cops in the past 14 months.
On April 9, 2021, officers were sent at 2.52am after a call, but were called off as “no assistance was needed”.
On New Year’s Day this year, at 1.43am, the alarm was “mistakenly tripped” and a squad car sent.
It is unclear if the Sussexes were at home celebrating.
Cops were then called on April 8 at 10.41am, but did not attend as the call “belonged to other agency”.
Then, on June 8, there was a “miscellaneous dispatch” at 1.17pm, but again cops did not attend.
The incidents are not the first at the Sussexes’ home.
On Christmas Eve 2020 a man allegedly trespassed and returned on Boxing Day before being arrested.
Prince Harry launched legal action last September calling for a judicial review after his UK security was withdrawn.
Read More on The Sun
On Friday, the review was allowed.
No date has been set for the High Court hearing.