Prince Harry took to the witness stand in a U.K. courtroom on Tuesday, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century.
took to the witness stand in a U.K. courtroom on Tuesday, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century.
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 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."
Harry's legal team has accused Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawfully gathering information on an "industrial scale." The publisher did apologize after noting that in other instances, "some evidence of the instruction of third parties to engage in other types of UIG ," according to the AP.
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