

He made an unexpected appearance in a U.K. The lawsuit against the Mirror Group Newspapers is one of six lawsuits that Harry is currently waging against the British tabloids. Were the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so I might be ousted from the Royal Family?" I was always left questioning the motives behind the stories. He continued, "At the time, when I was 18 years old and had lost my mother just six years earlier, stories such as this felt very damaging and very real to me. around 2014, although I now understand this was common knowledge amongst the Defendant's journalists." "This timeline is something I only learnt of. At the time of this article and others similar to it, I wasn't actually aware that my mother hadn't met Major Hewitt until after I was born," Harry said in his statement. "Numerous newspapers had reported a rumour that my biological father was James Hewitt, a man my mother had a relationship with after I was born. Harry said in his witness statement that he wondered if the rumors were planted by the tabloids so that he would be "ousted from the Royal Family."

"It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me, a 'damaged' young man, into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers." "As a teenager and in my early 20s, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes that wanted to pin on me mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well 'do the crime,' so to speak," Harry said in the statement. In a prepared witness statement released Tuesday, Harry said the articles published about himself and his family played a destructive role in his childhood and provoked feelings of paranoia in him. Harry and 100 other celebrities, including the estate of the late George Michael, are suing Mirror Group Newspapers for alleged misuse of private information between 19, including phone hacking and intercepting voicemails. The Duke of Sussex was grilled by the defense team in his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Daily Mirror. courtroom on Tuesday, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century. Prince Harry took to the witness stand in a U.K. Harry is the first British royal to testify in court in over 100 years.
