Prince Harry becomes the first royal in a century to take stand in court case | Today Show Australia

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Prince Harry savaged Rishi Sunak's Conservative government on Tuesday, in his explosive High Court case against a newspaper group.


In a breach of the convention that royals stay out of party politics, the Duke of Sussex, 38, insisted both the Government and Britain's press were at "rock bottom".



It came in his witness statement alleging unlawful newsgathering at the Daily Mirror and its sister titles the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People between 1996 and 2010. Said the newspapers were keen to try to split him up from his past girlfriends by putting as much strain and distrust. on them as humanly possible. He said he had always tried to be the best partner he possibly could "but every woman has her limit".


"Unfortunately, they are not just in a relationship with me but with the entire tabloid press as the third party," Harry said.


The Duke of Sussex accused the press of trying to ruin every relationship he had ever had to sell more newspapers, and told how he and former girlfriend Chelsy Davy were "never on our own" and could never enjoy each other's company away from the "prying eyes of the tabloids".


Harry accused MGN of blagging the couple's flight details and hotel bookings and/or intercepting their voicemails after journalists turned up while they holidayed on a small island off Mozambique.

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