This is one of several phone hacking lawsuits that have come a generation after this practice was made obsolete not by any crisis of conscience among newspaper editors but more by evolving technology and declining tabloid budgets.ĭAVID SHERBORNE: Patience is, in fact, a virtue, especially in the face of vendetta journalism.įRAYER: These are Harry's own words read aloud outside the courtroom today by his lawyer, David Sherborne. Princess Diana was the golden goose as far as newspapers were concerned 'cause she sold so many copies, but her sons, William and Harry, also were very, very good for business.įRAYER: The judge ruled in Harry's favor in 15 of the 33 articles he sued over and awarded him around $180,000 in damages. MILLS: The bestselling scoop that you could have back in those times was something about the royal family. MILLS: Harry was having huge trust issues with those in his inner circle because these stories kept appearing in the tabloid newspapers, and he didn't understand what was going on.įRAYER: The articles date back to the 1990s and early 2000s, the heyday of the British tabloids' power, Mills recalls. He sued the publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper for hacking his voicemail to get scoops about his grief over his mother Princess Diana's death, about romances he had as a teenager, even about a sports injury which no one outside Harry's immediate family and friends knew about, Mills explains. She says the High Court has vindicated Harry. His phone was being hacked.įRAYER: Eleanor Mills is a former editor at London's Sunday Times newspaper. Today a court in London essentially ruled that.ĮLEANOR MILLS: Harry was right. He felt paranoid, like someone was always spying on him, he said. All of his life, he says, the tabloids have tortured him, even as a child. I was a cartoon character, a glove puppet to be manipulated and mocked for fun.įRAYER: On top of his memoir, Harry, in recent years, has done a Netflix special and an Oprah interview in which he talked about feeling vulnerable in the face of what he calls a paparazzi frenzy aimed at him and his wife, Meghan Markle. I wasn't a 14-year-old boy hanging on by his fingernails. ![]() PRINCE HARRY: My existence was just fun and games to these people. LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: Here's Prince Harry in the audiobook version of his memoir, "Spare," describing how the British tabloids treated him as a teenager. ![]() In their heyday, British tabloids competed with one another to obtain the most private conversations of the most public figures and made lots of money doing it. A London judge says the Duke of Sussex was the victim of phone hacking, the now largely abandoned practice of intercepting private phone conversations or voicemail. Britain's Prince Harry won a court victory today against some of the tabloid newspapers that have hounded him for much of his life.
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