Duke of Sussex rejects that his private information was secured from friends and says publisher has ‘obsession’ with surveilling him
Prince Harry has insisted he did not have a “leaky” social circle that gave stories about him to journalists at the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, as he told the high court the publisher of the titles had “an obsession” with surveilling him.
Giving evidence in the high court against Associated Newspapers Led (ANL), the Duke of Sussex rejected the publisher’s claims that its journalists had secured information about him from his friends and acquaintances, rather than through unlawful means.
In exchanges with ANL’s lead barrister Antony White, the duke said it had been impossible to complain about some of the stories, which he now believes came from the use of unlawful information gathering.
He said he was prevented from complaining by “the institution I was in”, referring to the royal family. “If you complain, they [the press] double down on you, in my experience,” he said.
