![]() “It even got to the stage where the tabloids would routinely publish articles about me that were plainly wrong but interspersed with snippets of truth, which I now believe were most likely gleaned from voicemail interception and/or unlawful information gathering. ![]() “This goes to prove the existence of this secret agreement between the institution and senior executives at NGN – if it wasn’t in place then why on earth did William wait until 2019 to bring his claim in circumstances where our two private secretaries brought and settled claims back in 2012, and where he knew far more about the matter back then than I did, and also why didn’t NGN test its limitation argument against him?” Phone hacking meant Harry was perceived as ‘an idiot’ and was at risk of attacks “However, NGN still settled his claim for a huge sum of money in 2020 without subjecting him to a similar strike-out application, without any of the public being told, and seemingly with some favourable deal in return for him going ‘quietly’ so to speak. “Judging by Ms Mossman’s witness statement, my brother appeared to know an awful lot more than I did on the subject of phone hacking although he did not tell me if that was the case. ![]() People who abuse their power like this need to face the consequences of their actions, otherwise it says that we can all behave like this.” Prince William received a secret payoff from Murdoch’s business “If she’d had police protection with her in August 1997, she’d probably still be alive today. “This sort of unlawful activity including phone tapping/hacking made her distrust her protection officers as she thought they were leaking private information about her, which I believe is one of the reasons she insisted on not having any protection after the divorce (as I am told by the institution). This was a direct request (or rather demand) from my father, Edward Young and my father’s private secretary, Clive Alderton.” The life of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, could have been saved Indeed, when I did actually issue my hacking claims against both MGN and NGN in October 2019, I was summoned to Buckingham Palace and specifically told to drop the legal actions because they have an ‘effect on all the family’. “This was all because of the secret agreement which had been reached between NGN and the institution that there would be no actions until the end of the litigation. “With hindsight, I now understand why staff at Clarence House were being so unhelpful and were seemingly blocking our every move, as they had a specific long-term strategy to keep the media (including NGN) onside in order to smooth the way for my stepmother (and father) to be accepted by the British public as queen consort (and king respectively) when the time came, and anything that might upset the applecart in this regard (including the suggestion of resolution of our phone hacking claims) was to be avoided at all costs. “Unfortunately, despite … best efforts, both Robert Thomson and Rebekah Brooks continued to ignore our requests but then, shortly before the wedding, we were informed by Gerrard Tyrrell that nothing could be done as NGN were not in a position to apologise to Her Majesty the Queen and the rest of the royal family at that stage on account of the fact that, if they did so, they would have to admit that not only was the News of the World involved in phone hacking but also the Sun and that was something that they couldn’t afford to do until the end of the litigation because it would seriously undermine their settlement strategy across all the other claims.” … but his father, now King Charles, intervened “I spoke to her shortly afterwards and said something along the lines of ‘are you happy for me to push this forward, do I have your permission?’ and she said ‘yes’ … ![]() He therefore suggested that I seek permission from ‘granny’. “William was very understanding and supportive and agreed that we needed to do it. “I felt very angry about his newspapers’ appalling treatment of my wife and frustrated that nothing had been resolved on the phone-hacking front during the previous 12 months, and I thought (naively perhaps) that this might prove the perfect opportunity to air our grievances and force a resolution to our phone-hacking claims that had, up to that point, been denied to us on account of the secret agreement that had been reached between the institution and senior executives at NGN … and, of course, to force an apology from Murdoch. “I remember speaking to my brother and saying something along the lines of ‘enough of this, I want to get permission to push for a resolution to our phone-hacking claims and a formal apology from Murdoch before any of his people are allowed anywhere near the wedding ’ or words to that effect.
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