Prince Harry sues UK tabloids over alleged phone hacking
LONDON (AFP) — Prince Harry has launched legal action against two British tabloid newspaper publishers over alleged phone hacking — just days after he condemned the press for critical coverage of his wife.
Harry, 35, extended his campaign against the tabloids with fresh action after suing another newspaper for alleged invasion of privacy.
Reports said the new claims concerned phone hacking allegations.
“We can confirm that a claim has been issued by the Duke of Sussex,” News Group Newspapers, which publishes The Sun Daily and the now-defunct News of the
World, said in a statement. “We have no further comment to make at the current time.” A source at the Daily Mirror newspaper’s publishers Reach said they were aware that proceedings had been issued but they had not yet received them. Britain’s domestic Press Association (PA) news agency said a royal source confirmed the claims were “regarding the illegal interception of voicemail messages.”
Sky News television carried the same confirmation.
The move comes three days after Harry, sixth in line to the throne, launched legal action for invasion of privacy against The Mail
on Sunday after it published a letter from his wife Meghan to her father.
It was accompanied by a stinging attack on the tabloid media over its coverage of Meghan — an exceptional move by a member of the royal family.In it, Harry said the duchess was being hounded by the press in the same way as his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, was before her death in 1997.