Prince Harry is acting like “an avenging angel” a royal commentator has claimed after he discussed his battle against the British press in a new ITV documentary.
The Duke of Sussex spoke to ITV in a documentary named Tabloids on Trial, a new programme exploring the royal’s fight against the British tabloids.
Discussing his mother Harry told the broadcaster: “There’s evidence to suggest she was being hacked in the mid-90s. Probably one of the first people to be hacked.”
He continued to tell ITV: “And yet still today the press, the tabloid press, very much enjoy painting her as being paranoid but she wasn’t paranoid. She was absolutely right about what was happening to her. And she’s not around today to find out the truth.”
Prince Harry featured in “Tabloids on Trial”, an ITV documentaryITV
In December, Prince Harry won a substantial part of his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN)
A high court judge awarded him £140,600 in damages after ruling that Harry’s phone was hacked “to a modest extent” from the end of 2003 to April 2009.
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Speaking to GB News, a former royal reporter for The Sun, Charles Rae, blasted Harry’s comments in the interview.
He said: “I think he’s being a bit disingenuous. I understand he’s got a complaint against the tabloids.
“I understand that, and I have to say, I think that phone hacking was one of the most despicable things that ever happened in our industry, an industry that I worked in happily for 50 odd years.
“And so it’s right that he takes action that he wants. But let’s not run away with the fact that he’s some sort of avenging angel, trying to win for the greater good and everything else, which is a load of old rubbish.”
Charles Rae said that Harry is acting like an ‘”avenging angel”
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In the interview, Harry also said: “I don’t think there’s anybody else in the world that is better suited and placed to be able to see this through than myself” and claimed that the tabloids had contributed towards the rift in the Royal Family.
He said that he viewed the battle against the press as a “service” and “something needs to be done.”
Journalist Becca Barry asked the royal: “To what extent do you think your determination to fight the tabloids destroyed your relationship with your family?”
Prince Harry replied: “It is certainly a central piece to it. It is a hard question to answer because anything I say about my family results in a torrent of abuse from the press.
“I have made it very clear that this is something that needs to be done.
“It would be nice if we did it as a family, I believe from a service standpoint and when you are in a public role these are the things we should be doing for the greater good. I am doing this for my reasons.”