British royal family news shows that today Prince Harry made a bold claim against his family as he attends a court hearing in London. For what it’s worth his beleaguered family allegedly told him they were too “busy” to meet with him during his stay, and if true who can blame them?
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Royal Family News: Harry Is Talking
According to Harry, “members of the royal family struck a secret deal with newspapers not to sue them over phone hacking because it would open a can of worms.”
The comments were revealed to be in documents filed to the high court wherein he claimed that, “there was a private arrangement between the royal family, which he calls “the Institution”, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN), which publishes the Sun,” according to The Guardian.
Furthermore Harry claimed: “There was in place an agreement between the Institution and NGN that we would not engage, or even discuss, the possibility of bringing claims against NGN until the litigation against it relating to phone hacking was over.
The Institution made it clear that we did not need to know anything about phone hacking and it was made clear to me that the royal family did not sit in the witness box because that could open up a can of worms.”
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Royal Family News: Harry Is Talking About His Family Again
Harry is in London as his claim against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, is being heard; He is part of a group of seven celebs named as plaintiffs. Harry has stated that he decided to sue Associated Newspapers because, “if the most influential newspaper company can successfully evade justice, then in my opinion the whole country is doomed.” Remember, this is the same Harry who called America’s First Amendment Right to freedom of speech “bonkers.” So it appears that there are two sets of rules—one for Harry and one for the rest of us.
Royal Family News: Harry Thinks Free Speech is Bonkers
Harry declared that articles published in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, “about his private life had caused him immense grief and paranoia as a young man, citing an article about a little known girlfriend from his Eton days called Laura Gerard-Leigh.
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Harry brought even more attention to Laura by saying, “It led to Laura’s parents being doorstepped which they were understandably not pleased about. This sort of thing caused me to try and keep matters as private as I could to avoid this happening.” It blows the mind how Harry so ably speaks out of four sides of his mouth on two faces.
Royal Family News: Harry In London Courtroom
Associated Newspapers has gone on record to call the lawsuit claims “preposterous smears” and a “pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone-hacking scandal.” Stay tuned, folks, the judge has four days to determine the merits of the case.
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