A team of Special Forces troops is providing a ‘ring of steel’ around Prince William in the Falklands amid mounting tensions with Argentina over the islands.At least 20 servicemen from the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service are on the South Atlantic archipelago to assess – and counter – any threat of Argentine action.One of their prime roles is to identify any threat posed to the Duke of Cambridge, whose deployment at the time of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War has caused outrage in Buenos Aires.
Intelligence analysts say the biggest danger to William, whose uncle Prince Andrew was a helicopter pilot during the 1982 conflict, is likely to come from an individual or small group.Special Forces operatives carried out extensive reconnaissance of the islands before William arrived.