UK: Prince Harry appears in court to testify in phone hacking case

London. Britain’s Prince Harry appeared at the High Court over alleged illegal gathering of information and phone hacking by journalists from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). With this, he has become the first senior member of the royal family to appear before the court to testify in a trial in more than 100 years. Duke of Sussex Harry, 38, has accused tabloids of “bringing up hatred” against him over the years as a young member of the royal family, calling him a “cheater”, “fat”, “young” He accused her of ruining his life by posing as a “drinker”. In his testimony in court, Harry said: “I really feel that in every relationship I’ve had – whether it’s with friends, girlfriends, family or the military, there’s always been a third party involved.” , i.e. tabloid press.

He said, “As a teenager, I realized that I was surrounded by a lot of limelight. They wanted to target me. I figure, if they were publishing rubbish like this about me and people were believing it, ‘I might as well commit the crime of speaking out.’ Harry said he had decided to go to court. has decided to hold these people accountable for what they have done and is “determined to get to the bottom of this”. Harry lives separately from the royal family in the US with his wife Meghan Markle and two children Archie and Lilibet. He has said that his personal life was affected due to the news published by Mirror Group newspapers.

He alleges that the ‘Daily Mirror’, ‘Sunday Mirror’ and ‘Sunday People’ collected his personal information between 1996 and 2010 by other means, including phone hacking, obtaining information by deception and using private investigators. MGN has challenged the allegations, arguing that some of the claimants who are part of the representative legal action have brought their case to court too late. MGN’s lawyers are expected to cross-examine Harry this week. Meanwhile, the royal family’s lawyer told a hearing on Monday that Mirror Group journalists listened to voicemail messages from Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana.

Lawyer David Sherborne told the court that information about Harry’s relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy was obtained illegally. According to court reports, Harry alleges that about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained illegally gathered information, 33 of which have been selected for consideration in the trial. The last time a senior member of the royal family testified in an English High Court trial was in 1891, when the then Prince of Wales (who later ascended the throne as Edward VII) was called to give evidence in a gambling case , which was dubbed the ‘Royal Baccarat Scandal’.

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