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Two vanloads of Met police were sent to Mayfair's Cuckoo Club - celebrities go there expecting to encounter the paparazzi - to form a guard when Harry and Miss Davy, 21, left at 4am yesterday.

The uniformed officers were summoned to keep photographers at bay. It seemed an unusual step because the prince, 22, was already shadowed by two Scotland Yard protection officers who had been with the couple inside the club.

This was Miss Davy's second night in a row with Harry. On Friday - hours after she flew in from her home in Zimbabwe, to be met by a police escort - the couple shared a £100 vodka cocktail at Mayfair's Mahiki Club.

The latest show of police protectionis sure to raise questions about the cost to taxpayers and the priorities of the stretched Met at one of the force's busiest times of the weekend.

Miss Davy is in England for a private 10-day holiday as part of a gap year's travelling after graduating from university. She has said she is willing to move here so she can spend more time with Harry when he is on leave from the Household Cavalry. Police sources said yesterday that although there was no incident at the club, they were called because of concerns over the huge number of paparazzi in attendance.

Only last week, 12 police officers escorted Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton out of Boujis nightclub in South Kensington. At the time Tony Arbour, a Conservative member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: "If the reports are true, this is completely inappropriate."

She was assigned protection amid rumours of an engagement to William. But it is unlikely Prince Harry and his girlfriend of two years are as serious, even though she has received the same treatment.

Meanwhile, lawyers for Miss Middleton, 25, today issued a "final warning" to the press after secretly filming the paparazzi to support any harassment complaint she might make. The firm, Harbottle & Lewis, is believed to have "disturbing footage" of the scrum.