Prince Harry testified on Tuesday as part of the phone hacking lawsuit he brought against Mirror Group Newspapers, alleging that the tabloid press had hacked his phone and voicemails to illegally obtain information about him.
he brought against Mirror Group Newspapers, alleging that the tabloid press had hacked his phone and voicemails and those of his friends and associates to illegally obtain information about him. He called the hacking the press’s “twisted objective” in written testimony submitted to the court on Tuesday.
He alleged that the press’s invasion of his privacy had negatively impacted his life and mental health, making it so he could not trust his friends and found it hard to be in romantic relationships. He said that he felt he’d been forced into a role by the press, and that he felt he was helpless in how he was perceived, leading sometimes to reckless actions.
“You start off as a blank canvas while they [the press] work out what kind of person you are and what kind of problems and temptations you might have,” he wrote in his testimony. “They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the ‘spare’ to the ‘heir.
“Whilst they would, of course, report on my successes in life,” Harry wrote, “it seemed to me that they took far greater pleasure in knocking me down, time and time again.”Chelsy Davy, his on-again, off-again girlfriend from 2004 to 2010. According to Harry’s legal team, the Mirror Group published around 2,500 stories about Harry in the period the suit covers.and their family (they now have two children,
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