Princess Harry Says Tabloids Tapped Diana's Phone Calls

The latest development in Prince Harry's privacy lawsuit against the British tabloids involves his late mother, Princess Diana. According to the Associated Press and Reuters, Prince Harry and his lawyers claim that Princess Diana, King Charles, and Queen Camilla's phone calls were previously illegally tapped by The Sun, information that came to light in materials

The latest development in Prince Harry's privacy lawsuit against the British tabloids involves his late mother, Princess Diana.

According to the Associated Press and Reuters, Prince Harry and his lawyers claim that Princess Diana, King Charles, and Queen Camilla's phone calls were previously illegally tapped by The Sun, information that came to light in materials submitted by Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers. Now, Harry and his legal team are requesting that the High Court submit this new evidence.

Harry's attorney, David Sherborne, stated that the tapped calls between Diana, a then-Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles (now Queen), revealed information about Prince Harry as early as when he was only 9 years old.

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"The defendant's newspapers described his late mother's concerns as 'paranoid delusions,' when the true position was that she was under close surveillance and her calls were being unlawfully intercepted by (NGN), which was known about by its editors and senior executives,” Sherborne said, per the AP.

The ongoing suit is against NGN (publisher of The Sun and former outlet News of the World) for alleged invasions of privacy from 1990 to 2016, however, the case isn't likely to go to trial until January 2025.

Last year, a judge dismissed another phone-hacking claim from Harry's team because Harry knew about the tapping at News of the World and it was past the statute of limitations for a privacy breach. Harry explained the reason for his silence, however, during his witness statement in a separate suit against Associated Newspapers Ltd., saying it was the royal family's motto, "never complain, never explain" that prevented him from speaking out.

"The Institution was without a doubt withholding information from me for a long time about NGN's phone hacking and that has only become clear in recent years as I have pursued my own claim with different legal advice and representation," Harry previously said. "It is not an exaggeration to say that the bubble burst in terms of what I knew in 2020 when I moved out of the United Kingdom."

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