Stunning Royal Revelations From Prince Harry’s Court Testimony 》

Prince Harry has been dealing with British tabloids for literally his entire life. As the son of Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles, Harry was always subjected to intense scrutiny by the press, and the tabloids always knew how to make an entire meal out of even the most minor transgressions on the part of the prince.

Now, it seems, Prince Harry has a chance to strike back at the tabloids that have frequently made him their target. He and more than 100 others have filed a suit against Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Daily Mirror. Harry skipped out on day one of the trial, but he showed up on the second day, and he dropped bombshell after bombshell during his court testimony.

What royal revelations did Harry drop? And what do these revelations tell us about everything from his relationship with Prince William to his marriage to Meghan Markle? Keep reading to discover the answers!

Harry and those ugly paternity rumors

Perhaps the ugliest rumor about Prince Harry that never fully went away was that he is not actually the biological child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. According to those rumors, Harry’s real father is James Hewitt, Diana’s former riding instructor who also has an affair with her while she was still married to Charles.

Of course, these rumors wouldn’t have persisted without the tabloids keeping them alive. And Harry didn’t hold back when discussing the cruelty of the rumors. As reported by Us Weekly, he noted how “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.” Furthermore, “They were hurtful, mean and cruel.”

The cherry on top of this is that, according to the romantic timeline previously provided by Hewitt, there was no way he could be Harry’s father. Because of this, Harry openly questioned whether “the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so that I might be ousted from the Royal Family?”

Blaming the press for his ‘downward spiral’

These days, most of the scandals surrounding Prince Harry involve his ongoing drama with the rest of the Royal Family. But when he was still growing up, Harry had a reputation as a prince who loved to party and didn’t shy away from drugs and alcohol. And during his testimony, Harry effectively blamed the British press for effectively encouraging him to descend further and further into what he called a “downward spiral.”

As reported by AP News, Harry said: “I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes that they 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.” Furthermore, “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.”

While not everyone will support Harry for literally blaming his bad decisions on others, he further alleged that this tabloid journalism caused him “bouts of depression and paranoia” and that, after he learned more about their unethical journalism, “I now realize that my acute paranoia of being constantly under surveillance was not misplaced after all.”

Taking aim squarely at Piers Morgan

As you might expect, Prince Harry spent most of his time focusing on the British tabloids and calling very few people out by name. However, he made a very important exception: he called out Piers Morgan by name and explicitly pointed out that Morgan is one of the people who motivated Harry to take part in the lawsuit.

Morgan is a powerful media figure with an equally powerful hatred of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, going so far as to walk out on his prestigious Good Morning Britain job after the weatherman pointed out Morgan’s unhealthy obsession. But back in the day, Morgan was an editor for The Daily Mirror, and he helped publish discussions that Princess Diana had with English actor Michael Barrymore.

Harry held nothing back when discussing Morgan. As Yahoo! reports, he said, “The thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother’s private and sensitive messages, in the same way as they have me, and then having given her a ‘nightmare time’ three months prior to her death in Paris, makes me feel physically sick.” At the same time, all of this makes the prince “even more determined to hold those responsible, including Mr. Morgan, accountable for their vile and entirely unjustified behavior.”

The British press and the one who got away

Obviously, Meghan Markle is the love of Prince Harry’s life and the mother of his children. However, before he met her, Prince Harry had an intense on-and-off relationship with Chelsy Davy. The two eventually broke up, and Harry blames the British tabloids for how that went down.

That may sound crazy, but Harry provided a fair amount of proof during his testimony. For example, he mentioned a story about Davy angrily accusing Harry of spending time with another girl, and he argued that the only way journalists could have discovered this was by hacking his phone.

While he was unable to provide definitive proof, Harry also believes journalists were able to access Davy’s phone and listen to the voicemails that he had left her. Ultimately, Harry believes this caused the downfall of their relationship.

The beginning of the end of Harry’s relationship with William

Speaking of both disrupting relationships and accessing voicemail, Harry’s most explosive claim is that the British press helped drive a wedge between himself and his brother, Prince William. Obviously, many of Harry’s decisions (ranging from “Megxit” to the disastrous Oprah interview to spilling royal tea on his Netflix show) have deepened that wedge, but Harry seems to think it started thanks to the press.

For example, he brought up an article concerning his and William’s disagreement over meeting with Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell. Some of the very specific details in the article could only have come from a voicemail that Harry left William, causing him to believe that journalists were effectively snooping through his private messages. According to the New York Times, Harry darkly noted that “This type of article seeds distrust between brothers.”