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PRINCE HARRY HAS initiated legal proceedings against the publishers of the Sun and the Daily Mirror newspapers over alleged phone hacking.
A royal source confirmed Harry had filed claims at the High Court “regarding the illegal interception of voicemail messages” but that as the particulars of the claims were not yet public, there could be no further comment.
It comes three days after it was announced that the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is suing the Mail on Sunday after it published a letter she wrote to her father.
A spokeswoman for News Group Newspapers (NGN) – which owns The Sun and the now defunct News of The World – said: “We confirm that a claim has been issued by the Duke of Sussex. We have no further comment to make at the current time.”
A source at Reach plc, which owns the Mirror, said they were aware that proceedings had been issued but had not yet received them, so they were unable to comment further.
The launch of the Duchess’ case earlier this week prompted Prince Harry to launch a stinging attack on the tabloid media, in which he claimed his wife was being hounded by the press in the same way as his mother, Princess Diana, was before her death in 1997.
“My deepest fear is history repeating itself,” he said.
With additional reporting from - © AFP 2019
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Sc#mbag newspapers
@Joe Shea: agreed. They really have it in for her for some reason. I hope he cleans them out.
@Peter Cavey: The same rags are pro-Brexit.
Connect the dots …
Hope he takes them to the cleaners and finally puts The S€um out of business. No doubt he’ll give proceeds to a good charity too
@sean: if people stopped buying these rag mags they might put them out of business.
@Dave Barrett: Wishful thinking
@Dave Barrett: I see a guy buying the sun everyday when I go in for my morning coffee, was gonna hang him the beano for better reading
I’ve no interest in royalty or the goings on of celebs, I’m glad to see he”s taking on the gutter press.
Good on him. It’s time Scotland Yard start bugging there editors – they are complete see you next fridays.
@Peter McGlynn: they’re cunfs?
@Dan Skelton: synfs even…
@Peter McGlynn: Sunfs? C u next Tuesday and you can tell me what a Sunf is
Delighted the sun is the absolute pits of story telling.. Not to be confused with actual journalism…
I hope it goes completely in to oblivion and becomes a distant memory!!
Surely phone tapping a royal where possible senseitive information could be leaked could amount to espionage and treason maybe they should look at having the law changed
Please, same guy calling other soldiers in Iraq pakkis, dressing in nazi uniform…
@herp: fawning over the likes of them..
@herp: Regardless of any of that, or anything else he may have done, he’s in the right here and the tabloid press are scu.m
@herp: yeah, he’s done some stupid things, who hasn’t, but he is in the right here.
@Conoroconnor: my sympathy would be to genneral public who’ve been ruined by media, not these, good film due out check trailer on YouTube “richard jewell”.
@herp: problem is the general public can’t do nearly as much damage to the gutter press as he can and no doubt any gains from this action will go to somewhere that its needed.
If they are in the wrong then of course he should sue but personally I think this is more about the treatment of his wife than ‘hacking’ mobile phone calls. However I think to bring his mother’s name into this is despicable and below the belt. !!! There is no way you can compare the two.
Go harry go go go
Good man Harry, sow it into the b@$t@rđ$
How’s uncle Andy doing?
@Hello DAVE!: No one demanding answers from him, while living a life padded by pay for play. That’s how he is.
They’re cunfs?
A Prince with Balls Roll on the court cases
@pat seery: He’s not the first. Didn’t William & Kate sue a French (I think?) paper for publishing pics of Kate sunbathing topless?
Play by the sword, die by the sword.
A few million made by lawyers through this … but if that’s what it takes to lower the poison media into regular every day internet trolls, way to go. If Harry wins this some great deserving causes will get their rightful windfalls.
Harry should bring back be#heading
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