Lydon Van Der Westhuizen (pictured) was detained when immigration officials were tipped off that his relationship had ended
Immigration officials raided the home of a security guard to the royals, separated him from his toddler and detained him after hearing he'd split from his child's mother.
South African Lydon Van Der Westhuizen - who has protected Princes Anne - was confronted with nine enforcement officers banging on his door on February 6.
The 29-year-old was held at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre for six days despite the fact he had not committed a criminal offence.
At the close of 2018 he secured high-level clearance after thorough background checks, the Guardian reports.
He came to the UK in 2016 after meeting a British woman when she was in his home country.
They married in London two years ago and had a daughter one month afterwards. Mr Van Der Westhuizen secured a spouse visa that is valid until July this year.
But their relationship broke down at the start of 2018 and he moved out of the marital home. A family court order gave him access to his daughter twice a week.
In December last year, he was granted a three-year permit with the Home Office's Security Industry Authority.
The covert security role he undertook was with a firm specialising in protection for the Royals, celebrities and the super-rich.
The Home Office says that it told the SIA in October last year that Mr Van Der Westhuizen had the right to work.
The security guard (pictured) has questioned why it was deemed necessary to detain him when he'd been permitted to guard a member of the Royal Family
SIA issued a three-year security permit allowing him to work as a door supervisor. But just one week later the Home Office said his leave was curtailed. It said the decision had been made months before.
But Mr Van Der Westhuizen said he never received an email supposedly sent by the Home Office on August 31.
Officials say that the message detailed his leave to remain would be curtailed in 60 days’ time.
Mr Van Der Westhuizen believes
