Prince Harry Tears Into Royals for ‘Withholding Information’ on Hacking
Prince Harry went nuclear on his family in court Tuesday, accusing them of “conditioning” him to believe that he could not complain about media misrepresentation and “withholding information” about phone hacking from him so that he wouldn’t “open a can of worms” or appear in court.
In an extraordinary witness statement made as part of a civil claim he is pursuing against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail, Harry said he only came to understand that he “had a claim that I could bring” after he dumped royal lawyers and got his own.
He said: “The Institution [the monarchy] was without a doubt withholding information from me for a long time about NGN’s [News group Newspapers – publishers of The Times and the Sun] phone hacking and that has only become clear in recent years as I have pursued my own claim with different legal advice and representation.”