And there’s no way to know what unseemly details the Mirror might decide to reveal, and what evidence it might have to back them up. In this case, it’s in the Mirror’s interest to point to intrafamily leaking as a means for its sourcing rather than shady reporting tactics. And even as Harry attempts to defend the group’s privacy, it’s bound to come up that in the past, as Harry has alleged in his book and major interviews, one of the ways his family consistently undercut him was by leaking damaging information about him to news outlets (like when it came out that Harry and his wife were considering moving to Canada). A court case is not the kind of attention the famously stodgy, stiff-upper-lip family would seek out to begin with, and it also involves elements the royals can’t control. The prince completed what is expected to be the first of two days of testimony on Tuesday.Īs for how this affects his relationship with the other great villain in Harry’s life, his family of origin, you might think that the prince making headlines for literally anything other than feuding with them would be a win in their book, but alas, no: According to anonymous sources in outlets like Page Six, the other members of the British royal family are “privately bracing themselves” for what could come out and the possibility that it could wedge them further apart. Harry’s team is making the case that the newspapers used this information to get exclusive pictures of Harry while traveling or to report on the private details of his personal life, such as that the prince caught mono (the “kissing disease”) as a teenager. This time, the prince has joined three other plaintiffs to take on Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror, which he has accused of more of the same, with an emphasis on stealing voicemails during much of his adolescence and young adulthood. He and his wife have successfully sued other newspapers in the past for violations of privacy like taking illegal photos and voicemail hacking, as well as libel. Given his family history and the lack of scruples tabloid outlets have been known to deploy, Harry has good reason for his loathing of the British press, even if it does occassionally start to veer into tunnel vision.
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