Prince Harry in court, the allegations against the British government

High tension in Rolls Buildings in central London: Harry from England testifies at the Mirror Group Newspapers alleged phone hacking trial and opposition lawyer Andrew Green presses him. The prince – the first British royal to appear in court since 1891 (Edward VII and the royal baccarat case) – told the court he was “not sure” his phone had been hacked, although it was “potentially likely” that King Charles’s voice messages were illegally intercepted.

Green pressed him: “Isn’t that right? That’s not an answer” and right after: “Aren’t we, Prince Harry, in the realm of outright speculation?” As reported by “MailOnline”, Harry claimed to have read or seen millions of articles containing information and details too precise to have been leaked by insiders, friends or acquaintances. Later he realized that this information had been stolen through illegal activities. On the contrary, Andrew Green has repeatedly recalled that this news was disseminated by other media, including the BBC, or by press releases, Palace spokespersons and even public comments by his mother, Princess Diana. Green also touched on a sore point of Harry’s drug use as a teenager. He asked him if that illegal act was in the public interest given that he was third in line to the throne at the time and the prince was a little embarrassed: “There is a difference between the public interest and what interests the public” .

Shortly before, the Duke of Sussex – in a dark blue suit, white shirt and purple tie – had poisoned the government, Paul Burrell, the former trusted butler of his mother Lady D and her lover James Hewitt. Harry launched a very scathing attack on Downing Street, labeling him “rock bottom” (being at rock bottom) and accusing him of being somehow to blame for his presence on the High Court witness stand. He said he was “furious about the state of our press and our government, which I think are at a minimum”.

Statements of extraordinary gravity because they break with the convention according to which the Windsors must avoid expressing political judgments. Even more colorful in Paul Burrell, defined as a “two-faced shit”. The indiscretion has been reported in the past by The People and today Harry confirmed it by adding that, unlike his brother William, he didn’t want to find the former handyman to tell him to stop the revelations about his mother. “Cruel and masculine” stories about James Hewitt being his “biological father” had him fearing “he could be expelled from the royal family” before discovering at age 30 that the former officer’s connection to the Princess of Wales was after his birth. (“Were the newspapers eager to plant doubt in the public’s mind that I would be removed from the royal family?”).

In other tabloid articles, Harry has admitted fear and worry of being expelled from Eton for taking drugs, Diana’s own paranoia that friends were cheating on him, his girlfriend Chelsy Davy’s berating for dressing up as a Nazi at a party, sadness over the former editor Piers Morgan “terrible personal attacks and intimidation” against him and Meghan. Once again, the 38-year-old prince said he feels a moral obligation to fight this war by denouncing the “criminality” of the media, just as “a soldier defending important values ​​would. How much more blood will stain your typing fingers before someone can put an end to this madness (he didn’t name particular names, but limited himself to a generic j’accuse, ed)”.

Finally, with contempt for ridicule, he proclaimed that he “wanted to save journalism as a profession.” In the 55-page written deposition, the Duke pointed the finger at the Mirror group, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, because, according to him, they intruded on his childhood, adolescence and adult life. Interestingly, Harry, who broke with the “Firm”, has already appealed as a prince, but yesterday he was criticized by one of the highest judges in Great Britain for creating chaos by skipping the first day of the trial, which he himself defines as his reason for living, to celebrate his daughter Lilibet’s birthday in Montecito. The Duke of Sussex will testify again and will remain in the UK for longer than he did on May 6 at Charles III’s coronation. It is unclear if he will see his father or his brother or if he will meet Ernest, the newborn son of his cousin Princess Eugenie.