Last Updated on 03/30/2023 by てんしょく飯
Prince Harry, who sued the publisher of the Daily Mail for illegally collecting information by tapping phones and other illegal means, has returned to the UK for trial. It should be noted that Prince Harry has again criticised the royal family through this trial.
Prince Harry returns home for trial.
Prince Harry of the British Royal Family, who emigrated to the USA with his wife, Princess Meghan, after leaving the royal family, has urgently returned to the UK to appear in court. Prince Harry, along with singer Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the popular British newspaper Daily Mail, for obtaining his personal information through illegal means, including tapping his phone and illegally accessing his bank account. The company is being sued.
Prince Harry is also suing News Group Newspapers (‘NGN’), publisher of The Sun in the UK, for tapping his phone in 2019, but in his statement he referred to that as well, saying, “I was made clear by [the royal family] that I did not need to know anything about the phone tapping. That no member of the Royal Family would sit on the witness stand as it would cause a lot of trouble”; and “I have no doubt that the Royal Family has withheld information from me for a long time about the phone tapping by the NGN. This has only become clear to me in recent years as I have pursued my own claims with various legal advice and representation”, and criticised the royal family for knowing about the wiretapping and keeping it hidden.
In addition, Prince Harry says that there are other members of the royal family who may have been targeted by the NGN, but he is not sure if they have ever complained to the royal family about it.
Incidentally, this is the first time Prince Harry has returned to the UK since Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in September last year. As this is Prince Harry’s first return to the UK since the publication of his memoir Spare, which is critical of the royal family and his family, attention is also focused on whether Prince Harry will meet his estranged father King Charles and brother Prince William during his stay in the UK.
What are the chances of meeting his father King Charles & brother Prince William during his return?
Since leaving the royal family, Prince Harry has been largely isolated from his family due to his exposure and criticism of the Royal Family’s inner workings through interviews and the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. In particular, Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, published in January this year, is said to have “irreparably damaged” the family, as King Charles’ coronation in May will be a show of royal unity, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have also been invited.
However, while Prince Harry and his wife have acknowledged receiving an invitation to the coronation, they have not indicated whether they will attend, and some media reports suggest that the couple made some demands of the royal family before agreeing to attend.
One of the requests, which has not been confirmed, was that they be allowed to speak to King Charles and Prince William face-to-face, leading to speculation that Prince Harry may meet King Charles and Prince William during his stay in the UK. However, People in the US has denied the possibility, saying that “there will be no meeting”.
People points out that Prince William’s family currently lives in Windsor, a suburb of London, but the children usually spend their spring break in Norfolk, far from London, and People points out that Prince William is busy with family services. King Charles, meanwhile, is also scheduled to visit Germany from 29 March (local time) and is not in the UK, making it difficult for him to meet Prince Harry.
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