Er, because he was out doing what he is great at, which is talking to veterans and ordinary members of the general public, and had a professional team of people working for him to take care of that sort of thing? It’s really not that difficult to understand.
By the sound of it half of them were in cahoots with favoured journalists though. He’s only recently come to understand the corrupt way it all works. Hence his book and media appearances on the subject.
Of course he and Meghan suffered massive press intrusion. Journalists hanging out of neighbour’s bathrooms windows. I don’t think any of us can comprehend the hideousness of it unless you have been subjected to it. And how it impacts on every single aspect of a person’s life. Imagine if you were worried that the technician who did your ultrasound scan might be approached by journalists and bribed? At some point it makes absolute sense to take control of the narrative, rather than it controlling you.
Harry became suspicious of friends because the press were getting hold of stories they couldn’t possibly know unless they were were part of his inner circle. Then he learned about methods used by journalists working for other publications.
And btw, he has said many times publically, that he has made many, many private overtures to the RF to try and heal rifts and come to an understanding, away from cameras, and it was only after he had tried and tried again to get them to listen, and they refused to acknowledge there was even an issue, that he decided to go public.
To my mind, let’s just speculate, that if some senior members of the RF have allegedly made some sort of Faustian pact with important figures within certain newspaper groups say, to promote and safeguard their own image, just as Hugh Grant said previous Prime Ministers have had to do in the past, then it’s quite possible that certain figures within BP may not have liked the idea of young Hal rushing in and upsetting the apple cart! It makes sense to me anyway!
The most worrying aspect of all of this is the stranglehold these press barons have on every institution within the uk right up to the very top.
Whether it was a wise move or not for Harry to go public, I don’t know, but as a pp pointed out, he is in fact, whether they appreciate it or not, doing the rest of the RF a huge favour in the long term, by lending his presence to these proceedings. And he can do what they can’t, now he is outside of the institution. It’s certainly very brave of him but at this point he probably thinks he doesn’t have much more left to lose. Good on him I say!