{"id":40996,"date":"2024-07-26T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T23:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/seychelles\/all-news\/prince-harry-says-battle-against-tabloids-worsened-rift-with-family"},"modified":"2024-07-27T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:05:08","slug":"prince-harry-says-battle-against-tabloids-worsened-rift-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/seychelles\/all-news\/prince-harry-says-battle-against-tabloids-worsened-rift-with-family","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry says battle against tabloids worsened rift with family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Seychelles. <\/strong><\/span>Prince Harry, who has been embroiled in legal battles against British tabloids, said his &#8220;mission&#8221; against them partly caused his rift with the royal family, in an interview aired Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The younger son of <b>King Charles III<\/b> has brought a number of court cases against tabloids which he, alongside other public figures, accuses of illegally collecting information.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the legal proceedings, the Duke of Sussex, as he is also known, has expressed anger at the mistreatment of his wife Meghan by the popular press.<\/p>\n<p>He has long considered them responsible for the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a car accident in Paris in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, Harry, 39, secured a ruling in his favour against MGN, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, for phone hacking, which he said was a &#8220;monumental victory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have the judge rule in our favour was obviously huge,&#8221; Harry, 39, told a new ITV documentary, Tabloids on Trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But for him to go as far as he did&#8230; this wasn&#8217;t just the (fault of) individual people. This went right up to the top.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was lawyers, this was high executives,&#8221; added the prince, who made a surprise appearance in court to testify in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Harry was awarded more than \u00a3140 000 (more than R3 million) in damages after the trial, and reached a financial settlement over remaining claims against MGN.<\/p>\n<p>He has also filed a similar lawsuit against NGN, publisher of tabloid The Sun, which denies the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>That trial is set to take place next year.<\/p>\n<p>Harry has however dropped libel claims against the group that publishes the Mail on Sunday for its reporting on his police protection.<\/p>\n<p>The former British Army captain, who quit royal duties and moved to North America in 2020, said his mother&#8217;s hounding by the tabloids helped motivate him in his legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She wasn&#8217;t paranoid, she was absolutely right about what was happening to her,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She&#8217;s not around today to find out the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;The greater good&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since he and Meghan left the UK, Harry has been at odds with his family, particularly his brother William and their father.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between the two brothers strained further with the release of a Netflix documentary produced by <b>Harry and Meghan<\/b> at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He was also critical of William in his memoir <b>Spare<\/b>, published last year.<\/p>\n<p>Harry told the programme he believed his determination to take on the tabloids aggravated the rift.<\/p>\n<p>He said he regretted that the rest of the British royal family was not by his side. &#8220;It would be nice if we, you know, did it as a family,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that from a service standpoint and when you are in a public role, that these are the things that we should be doing for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the mission continues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Other celebrities who have launched legal action against tabloids, including British actor Hugh Grant, also opens up in the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor described how microphones were placed in windows outside his house, with mics and trackers dropped into his car.<\/p>\n<p>Grant recently reached a financial settlement with NGN to end legal proceedings after being advised of the hefty legal bill he could have to pay if he went to trial.<\/p>\n<p>NGN has denied accusations of wrongdoing at The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the deal, Grant said he remained &#8220;bitter and determined to exact justice on the executives who commissioned this stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s former prime minister Gordon Brown also features in the documentary, accusing NGN of illegally accessing his personal information such as his bank account and bills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these things happened to me during the period I was chancellor (finance minister) and prime minister,&#8221; he said, calling for new investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Seychelles Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Seychelles. 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