prince harry is openly talking about why he doesn’t feel safe bringing his wife, meghan markleor their children return to the UK.
Harry, 39, recently Interviewed as part of ITV documentary Try out the tabloids, which details various lawsuits between high-profile public figures and British tabloids, as well as a long-running legal tangle involving alleged rampant phone hacking by some in the British media. The documentary partly revolves around Harry’s legal battle with Mirror Group newspapers [MGN]. Harry Solved his hacking case The showdown with the Mirror Group of Newspapers began back in February.
Discussing his lawsuit and his many public calls for reform and accountability, Harry shared, “I’m trying to get justice for everybody. It’s a David versus Goliath situation, [where] The Davis family is the claimant, and Goliath is a massive media conglomerate.
While Harry said last year’s court victory over MGN felt “vindicated”, the prince argued “phone hacking had been going on for a long time” [and] There is a huge amount of stuff that has come to light now that people and the British public don’t know.
Harry said being hounded by photographers, paparazzi and tabloid reporters was a permanent problem for him, explaining, “It felt like harassment. It felt bad then. It feels bad now.”
“That’s one of the reasons I won’t take my wife back to this country,” Harry said.
He traveled from the UK to the US, where he and Meghan raised their 5-year-old son Archie and 3-year-old daughter Lilibet, which was one of the reasons for his rift with the royal family. However, Harry argued that it was his battles with the media that further strained relations.
“Everyone is now aware of the risks of confronting the media and the risk of retaliation for them making these claims – and clearly not [the royal family’s] “I’d be interested in doing that,” Harry said. , this is what needs to be done. It would be great if we, you know, did it as a family. I believe again, from a service perspective, when you’re in a public role, these are things we should be doing for the greater good.
“I think everything that happened showed people the truth of the matter. To me, the mission continues, but it has, it has, yes. Yes, as you said, it is part of the rift. “
Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, gave up royal duties 2020. , the relationship between Prince Harry and his younger brother Prince William is not good. can’t forgive harry.
Although Harry has settled his phone hacking case with Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN paid a settlement of more than $505,000), his fight is far from over. harry and other claimants Will stand trial alongside News Group newspaperspublisher sun, charged with illegal information collection in January 2025. In this case, Harry was criticized for his lawyer’s accusations sun accuse him”intentionally“Destroying the messages he exchanged with the ghostwriter of his 2023 memoir, free.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry insisted his late mother Princess Diana “was probably one of the first people to be hacked”.
“And yet to this day, the media, the tabloids, still love to portray her as a bigot,” Harry said. The ongoing privacy battle It goes back decades. “But she’s not paranoid, she’s absolutely right about what happened to her. And she’s not going to find out the truth.”
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