Prince Harry opens up about his battle with the paparazzi and privacy in new ITV documentary ‘Tabloids on Trial’.
prince harry He’s opening up about why he doesn’t feel safe bringing his wife along, meghan markleOr their children have been sent back to Britain.
Harry, 39, recently sat down for an interview as part of an ITV documentary Sue the tabloidsWhich details various lawsuits between high-profile public figures and British tabloids, as well as long-running legal entanglements over alleged large-scale phone hacking by some in the British press. The documentary is partly centered around Harry’s legal battle against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). Hacking case solved A case was filed against Mirror Group Newspapers in February.
Discussing his lawsuit and his many public calls for reform and accountability, Harry said, “I’m trying to get justice for everybody. It’s a David vs. Goliath situation, (where) David is the claimant and Goliath is a giant media enterprise.”
While Harry said he felt “vindicated” by his court win over MGN last year, the prince argued that “phone hacking has been going on for a long time (and) a lot has now come to light that the public and the British public were not aware of.”
Being harassed by photographers and paparazzi and followed by tabloid reporters is something Harry has always struggled with, and he explained, “It felt like harassment. It felt horrible then. It feels horrible now.”
“That’s one of the reasons I won’t be bringing my wife back to this country,” Harry said.
Moving from Britain to the U.S. — where he and Meghan are raising their 5-year-old son Archie and 3-year-old daughter Lilibet — has been a cause of rift between him and the royal family. However, Harry argues that his battles with the press strained the relationship even more.
“It’s now clear to everyone that to attack the press and to pursue these claims risks this kind of retaliation from them – and it’s not in (the royal family’s) interests to do that,” Harry said. “But, you know, it’s a hard question to answer because anything I say about my family results in a barrage of abuse from the press… I’ve made it very clear that this is something that needs to be done. It would be good if we, you know, did it as a family. I believe that, again, from a service perspective and when you’re in a public role, these are things we should do for the wider good.”
“I think with everything that has happened, people have come to know what the truth of the matter is. For me, the mission continues, but this has happened, this has happened, yes. Because of this, yes, as you say, a rift has occurred.”
Harry with his wife Meghan Markle… stepped away from his royal duties in 2020. More than four years later, that rift remains alive and well, particularly when it comes to Harry’s relationship, or lack thereof, with his brother Prince William, whom royal expert Katie Nicholl said in October 2022 that he I couldn’t forgive Harry.,
Harry has settled his phone hacking case with Mirror Group Newspapers (the deal cost MGN more than $505,000), but his battle is far from over. Harry and other claimants Trial with News Group Newspapers about to beginPublishers of the SunHarry is convicted on claims of illegal information gathering in January 2025. In that case, Harry’s lawyer has pressed charges against him. Sun He was accused of “Intentionally“Deleting messages exchanged with the ghostwriter of his 2023 memoir, Excessive,
Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry says that his late mother, Princess Diana, was “probably one of the first people to be hacked.”
“And yet even today the press, the tabloid press, has a lot of fun portraying her as crazy,” said Harry, whose family The ongoing battle for privacy Decades-old stuff. “But she wasn’t crazy, she was absolutely right about what was happening to her. And she’s not there to find out the truth.”
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