
That is the whole point. If it were not for paparazzi he would not need protection any more than any other soldier.
There was Harry happily doing his job, not his first choice because the media blew that for him, but still doing what he is trained for, and along comes some bottom-dwelling journo who
accidentally exposed his disguise

. Yeah right!
It is the media who ensure that he actually
"needs" protection, by blowing his cover (unintentionally of course

) and in so doing
"creating their next
headline/bottomline" about how Prince Harry has to be removed from danger in the front lines because the enemy now know precisely who he is, where he is and what he is doing.
They will rattle on about how he really shouldn't have been there in the first place because it is dangerous and it costs heaps to mount an emergency extraction when it wouldn't have been necessary if he just stayed home in the first place.
The fact that tracking him to
Bijou's rather that
Afghanistan is a lot cheaper and less personally dangerous to any high minded journo who is just doing their job trying to show the working-class that all royalty are booze swilling horray henry's who should really be earning their keep doing something really important for their country. Something like . . . . oh I don't know, maybe joining the Army and fighting for Queen and Country.
Give me strength! It's dinner and my

is waiting for me!