Piers Morgan has hit again at Prince Harry after receiving fierce criticism from the royal throughout his cellphone hacking trial.
The Duke of Sussex mentioned the considered the previous editor of the Daily Mirror and his "band of journalists" earwigging on his mom's messages "makes me feel physically sick".
Morgan informed Sky News he did not see any of Harry's feedback, however added: "I wish him luck with his privacy campaign and look forward to reading about it in his next book."
Prince Harry's feedback have been written on web page 12 of his 55-page witness assertion, which claims that 33 articles written by papers owned by the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) concerned illegal info gathering by the writer, together with cellphone hacking.
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The Duke of Sussex wrote: "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 and even more determined to hold those responsible, including Mr Morgan, accountable for their vile and entirely unjustified behaviour."
Yesterday, the High Court heard of allegations that Princess Diana's phone was hacked by the paper when it was below Morgan's supervision from 1995 to 2004.
Prince Harry's lawyer, David Sherborne, learn aloud particulars of letters she wrote to comic Michael Barrymore that exposed the pair had secret conferences, and that the Princess was supporting Barrymore who was "struggling with coming out as gay".
He mentioned that in Morgan's e-book, The Insider, he refers to "rumours" that Diana was "secretly comforting" Barrymore and that he was being handled for alcohol dependancy.
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In his witness assertion - paragraph 42 - Harry writes: "Mr Morgan's reference to 'secret' meetings, I can only assume that this information had been obtained via voicemail interception and/or other unlawful information gathering such as live land line tapping."
'Barrage of horrific private assaults'
Morgan has at all times denied any involvement in, or data of phone-hacking or different criminal activity, however has very publicly criticised each Harry and his spouse, Meghan, up to now.
Later within the assertion - paragraph 194 - Prince Harry accuses Morgan of inflicting a "barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation" on each him and Meghan.
"Unfortunately, as a consequence of me bringing my Mirror Group claim, both myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan, who was the Editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004, presumably in retaliation and in the hope that I will back down, before being able to hold him properly accountable for his unlawful activity towards both me and my mother during his editorship," he wrote.
Morgan's spokesperson had no touch upon Harry's claims.
The Duke of Sussex immediately firmly put Piers Morgan within the highlight for his alleged actions as editor of the Daily Mirror.
But Morgan's relationship with the royal couple has a posh historical past.
Morgan first met Meghan in 2016, earlier than she met Prince Harry.
The pair "got on brilliantly" and "had a couple of dirty martinis" in response to Morgan, who informed RTE's The Late Late Show in 2019.
But their relationship rapidly turned bitter after Meghan met Harry, when Morgan accused the duchess of "ghosting" him.
"I just think she's a slight social climber," he informed Late Late host Ryan Tubridy.
Morgan's criticism of the couple then escalated after their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, by which Meghan mentioned she "didn't want to be alive anymore".
Reacting to the interview, Morgan mentioned he "didn't believe a word" of it, whereas presenting ITV's Good Morning Britain (GMB).
His feedback sparked livid outrage from the general public, with 41,000 Ofcom complaints and psychological well being charity Mind stating they have been "disappointed" by his feedback.
Perhaps most famously of all, Morgan stormed off the set of GMB, and later left his position as presenter, after clashing with fellow presenter Alex Beresford in regards to the interview.
Morgan maintained his opinion even after leaving the present, saying that he did not consider "almost anything that comes out of her mouth" and that Meghan had finished harm to the British monarchy.
"If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly-held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it," he mentioned in March 2021.
It additionally emerged that Meghan formally complained about Morgan earlier than he left GMB.
The grievance was understood to deal with how Morgan's feedback might have an effect on the problem of psychological well being usually and people trying to cope with their very own issues.
What has MGN mentioned?
Previously, MGN, now owned by Reach, has admitted its titles have been concerned in cellphone hacking, settling greater than 600claims, however its lawyer, Andrew Green KC, has maintained that there was no proof that Harry had ever been a sufferer.
As Prince Harry grew to become the primary British royal to seem in a witness field in additional than a century, Mr Green claimed that his cellphone couldn't have been hacked when one of many articles was revealed as he didn't have a cell phone on the time.
He additionally dismissed the declare that Diana's voicemails have been hacked as "total speculation" and "without any evidential basis whatsoever".
Proceedings are as a consequence of conclude by the tip of June, with Mr Justice Fancourt anticipated to provide his written ruling later within the 12 months.
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