Meghan was under constant threat, says former police chief Neil Basu

Police investigated “many very real and disgusting” threats against the Duchess of Sussex while she was living in Britain, the Met’s former counter terror chief, has disclosed.

Asked in an interview if the threats against the duchess were credible, Neil Basu replied: “Absolutely, and 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.”

He said that there had been threats to Meghan more than once, adding: “We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats.”

Basu, who was until recently the force’s assistant commissioner of specialist operations, made the comments in his

The Flash Sale.