Duke: If my claims against Mail are false they will sue me

HARRY’s first UK interview in support of his memoirs last night saw him questioned over a legal claim he has launched against the Mail.

Prince Harry, together with a group including Sir Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, have alleged that tapping, bugging and other illegal activities were carried out against them, which the Mail vehemently denies.

ITV interviewer Tom Bradby warned Harry that the accusations he has made are ‘very grave and the stakes... very high’, adding: ‘Let’s be clear... You would owe them a pretty abject apology if you’re not right, if it’s not proven.’

Harry responded: ‘Well if it wasn’t... they would presumably sue us.’

The Mail has unambiguously rejected the allegations as ‘groundless’ and ‘preposterous smears’.

Harry also appeared to claim he was ‘policing’ the Press.

He told Bradby: ‘They want to hold us and the rich and powerful to account and they want to police society – then who’s policing them?’

The prince insisted he was going to continue to ‘serve his country’ from his mansion in California by holding the British Press to account.

He also attacked the controversial Sun column by Jeremy Clarkson in which he TV presenter suggested that Meghan should ‘parade naked’ through Britain while people throw ‘excrement at her’.

He called the idea – which echoed dramatic scenes from TV hit Game of Thrones – ‘horrific’.

Harry claimed that the monarchy should have spoken out against Clarkson’s ‘hurtful and cruel’ comments which could encourage mistreatment of women.

He stressed it was ‘no longer a case of me asking for accountability, but at this point the world is asking for accountability.

‘And the world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy. But the silence is... deafening.’