Harry may have harmed right to privacy

PRINCE HARRY will find it harder to defend his right to privacy in the future after revealing so much personal information in his book, the head of the press regulator has said.

Lord Faulks KC, the chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, said it is not “unreasonable” for the media to report on the private lives of those who choose to discuss it in public.

The Duke of Sussex’s memoir has raised eyebrows by detailing his use of cocaine and marijuana, how he lost his virginity and that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his service in Afghanistan with the British Army.

Lord Faulks KC, speaking on Radio 4’s World at One, said: “In general terms, when considering whether there has been a violation of privacy, it is legitimate to consider whether an individual has brought into the public domain their private life.

“Most people don’t want anybody to know anything about their private life, but if they are prepared to discuss it then it is not unreasonable for the press to write about it and to say to some extent they have brought an invasion of privacy on themselves.”

The crossbench peer’s comments come after the revelations emerged from a Spanish-language version of Spare that went on sale a week before the book’s planned release date

Among its more explosive claims is that Harry and Prince William pleaded with his father not to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

Lord Faulks added: “I think on a quite ordinary level, people will begin to feel either uncomfortable that they know too much or that they want to know more.

“I think the exposure is going to make people examine what they want from the monarchy. I don’t think that people have decided they definitely want a fundamental change but this has certainly fanned the flames of debate, I think, in a big way.”

The Duke also claims he was attacked by his brother, who he refers to as his “arch-nemesis”, in an argument about his wife.