Several celebrities with similar allegations have also filed claims being heard alongside Harry’s, including Hugh Grant in the News Group case, and Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley in the Associated Newspapers case.Īssociated Newspapers “vigorously denies” the claims. In a sign of how much the cases matter to him, Harry attended several days of hearings in March in the case against the Mail publisher. The claims are similar: that journalists and people they employed listened to phone messages and committed other unlawful acts to snoop on Harry and invade his privacy. In addition to Mirror Group Newspapers, he is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and Associated Newspapers Ltd., which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. The duke is taking on three of Britain’s best-known tabloid publishers. Since that time, other newspapers have been accused of illegal intrusions that extended to tapping phones, bugging homes and using deception to obtain phone, bank and medical records.

The two were jailed, and the reporter apologized for hacking phones used by aides of Harry, his older brother, Prince William, and their father.Ī full-blown hacking scandal erupted five years later when it was revealed that the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid eavesdropped on voicemails on the phone of a slain girl, forcing the paper to close and launching a public inquiry. News that British journalists hacked phones for scoops first emerged in 2006 with the arrest of a private investigator and the royals reporter at the now-defunct News of the World. Reforming the news media has become one of his life’s missions. He also cites harassment and intrusion by the British Press and “vicious, persistent attacks” on his wife, Meghan, including racist articles, as the reason the couple left royal life and fled to the U.S. The prince blames paparazzi for causing the car crash that killed his mother, the late Princess Diana. In court documents, he described his relationship with the press as “uneasy” in court documents, but it runs much deeper than that. The Daily Mirror case is one of three Harry has brought alleging phone hacking and other invasions of his privacy, dating back to when he was a boy. HARRY’S HISTORY WITH PHONE HACKING AND PAPARAZZI

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