Rifraf coming into Britain

I was looking at the BBC video of Second Lieutenant, Prince Harry who returned to Britain today after his deployment in Afghanistan.
Some things I would like to know and were not included in the video.
1. It looked as though he had to show his passport when he arrived and was being processed at Brize Norton RAF Station. So if thats the case why does a Royal have to prove his legitimacy to stay in Britain. Things have changed a lot.
2. RAF Station Brize Norton is on lease to the US Air Force so it would be interesting to find out if the servicewoman processing him in was an American and that would then be an American deciding if he could stay in the UK?

Crazy world we live in.

Id guess he'd show his passport to prove his identity. Just because hes a prince doesnt mean everyone has to know who he is and what he looks like....Id hope they'd ask passports on anyone arriving to the UK from another country..................

A Pot Noodle sauce packet once told me the only person in the UK who doesn't need a passport is the queen.

This was written "tongue in cheek" and I've since researched and found out that Brize Norton has been returned to the RAF several years ago and therefore has no connection with the USAF.

A Pot Noodle sauce packet once told me the only person in the UK who doesn't need a passport is the queen.

She's also the only head of state who can't sing her own national anthem.

The queen is also allowed to drive (or be driven in) a car which has no number plates and no excise duty license (tax disk).

She's also the only head of state who can't sing her own national anthem.

Why would she?  It's directed at her.

One is also not supposed to clap in one's own honour - but Hollywood seems to have put paid to that little bit of manners.

Why would she?  It's directed at her.

Yes, you correctly identified the joke.

Reminded me of the Spitting Image sketch with the Queen doing some housework and singing "God save our gracious me"!

And a great sketch of the Royal's playing Monopoly, Queen "That's mine, and that's mine, and that's mine!"

Neither of which I could find....but I did find this

The queen is also allowed to drive (or be driven in) a car which has no number plates and no excise duty license (tax disk).

Hey Paul have things changed because I thought she had the license plate HRH 1?

Hey Paul have things changed because I thought she had the license plate HRH 1?

She does have HRH 1 (among others), but she is not required by law to display a number. 

There's an old Morecambe & Wise movie where at the start the pair are traffic wardens walking around London and come upon a limo parked on yellow lines.  There ensues the usual banter between them as Eric tries to issue a parking ticket, then finds no number plates, then wants to add no tax disk to the ticket, etc., and Ernie's trying to pull him away: "You know who's in the back of that car, don't you?"   

But here's some rather more up-to-date confirmation:

The Queen's State cars are not eligible for London's congestion charge, as they do not have number plates, but Her Majesty pays the charge on her other cars

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4969.asp

Brize was handed back in 1965, rather more than "several years" ago, and it's "riff-raff", not "rifraf".