Prince Harry and Meghan Markle faced "disgusting and very real" threats against their lives from the far-right when the couple was in the United Kingdom, a veteran British police officer said.

Outgoing Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, who was the former head of counter-terrorism for the force, said during an interview with the UK's Channel 4 News that Markle especially faced many credible threats against her life while he was in charge of royal protection.

 

"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it — the kind of rhetoric that's online, if you don't know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time," Basu said in the interview, which aired on Tuesday.

When asked by Channel 4's Cathy Newman whether he was convinced there was a "genuine" threat on the Duchess of Sussex's life on more than one occasion, Basu replied, "We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats."

Basu is retiring from the Metropolitan Police following a 30-year career with the force.

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