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Harry Says His Fight Against Tabloids Is a 'Central Piece' of Rift with the Royal Family

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popthepopcorns · 25/07/2024 11:49

Is there anyone in the public eye more delusional and lacking in self-awareness than Harry?

The Duke of Sussex, 39, sat down for a new interview for ITV's documentary Tabloids on Trial, premiering on Thursday, July 25. In a preview released a day before the airing, Harry discussed his reasons for publicly pursuing lawsuits against publications over allegations of phone hacking and other unlawful acts — a contrast from his brother, Prince William, who reportedly quietly received a "very large sum of money" in a settlement from News Group Newspapers (NGN) in 2020 amid a claimed "secret agreement" with the royals.
ITV's Rebecca Barry asked Prince Harry in the clip, "To what extent do you think your determination to fight the tabloids destroyed the relationship with your family?"
"I think that's certainly a central piece to it," the Duke of Sussex replied. "That's a hard question to answer because anything I say about my family results in a torrent of abuse from the press."
"I've made it very clear that this is something that needs to be done. It would be nice if we did it as a family," he continued. "I believe that, again, from a service standpoint and when you're in a public role, that these are the things that we should be doing for the greater good. But I'm doing this for my reasons."

Prince Harry Takes Aim at Tabloid Phone Hacking in New Sit-Down Interview for Documentary

Prince Harry will be featured in "Tabloids on Trial," a new documentary about phone hacking from ITV premiering on July 25, alongside Hugh Grant and more.

https://people.com/prince-harry-appear-new-documentary-phone-hacking-hugh-grant-8675884

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TinklySnail · 25/07/2024 20:04

ConstantGarden1 · 25/07/2024 18:44

You believe them to be liars because that is what the press wanted you to believe. There is context and nuance to everything from that period of time and taking a line here and there to fit your own biases does not wash anymore.

Cases were won.

I believe they are liars because they are.
Had a secret wedding - Lie
Archie refused royal title -Lie
It wasn’t the tabloids who said these things was it. It was M&H
Cases were won but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t lie.

Twistybranch · 25/07/2024 20:06

Don’t forget about the time he threatened to sue the BBC when they printed he didn’t ask for permission from the queen to name Lilibet. Turns out he didn’t sue…..because he didn’t ask. So another lie

ToofHurty · 25/07/2024 20:07

Of course they’re liars, they couldn’t even get the story straight between them on Oprah about when and what was said about Archie’s potential skin colour.

Redglitter · 25/07/2024 20:16

He's determined to play the victim isn't he. Everyone is responsible for what happens except him.

Does he really think his fight against the press has been more damaging that the interviews he's given slagging them off, the lies he's been proven to have told means his credibility is pretty much non existent.

William lost his Mum too. William fought the press - and won. But did it all in a dignified manner. Unlike his embarrassment of a brother

Harry is just a joke. On one hand he claims to want a reconciliation but then goes on TV bad mouthing his family yet again. How can he think any kind of reconciliation is possible when he's still trying to tout his story

He's a sad angry pathetic man. Almost unrecognisable from the Harry who was once the most popular Royal

Redglitter · 25/07/2024 20:19

Janiie · 25/07/2024 19:25

Exactly.

Have folk actually being living in a cave and missed all the crap and abuse the POW has been subject to in the last 6 months whilst post op and enduring chemo. 'Yeah but no but the Sussexes had it worse'. Bollocks.

The worst abuse coming from Sussex supporters. The irony

Misorchid · 25/07/2024 20:24

Screamingabdabz · 25/07/2024 19:21

I agree they look and sound desperate now. No wonder they are seeking to dock back with the mothership.

I knew it would be a matter of time when I saw those surreal insta posts with that ridiculous “this my jam” countryside-riveria-bollocks.

This is a woman who would never risk her perfect mani or one second of her day dealing with boiling hot liquid sugar, nor eat such a product. Those so-called friends posing in hippy-chic dresses and wicker baskets with a singular hessian topped jar must be cringing so badly to be on the payroll promoting something so utterly basic and irrelevant to size-zero life, and being styled in such a batshit way

And funny how they hate the UK so much but still clinging on to the titles and using them at every opportunity… absolute piss takers. And too thick to even see themselves.

If I was William and Kate I’d be having none of it until the divorce was finalised and Harry had gone through full post-cult-reprogramming.

Absolutely brilliant! “This is my jam”countryside-riviera-bollocks’😂

TinklySnail · 25/07/2024 21:50

NotaDuchessIworkalot · 25/07/2024 18:47

M got no more grief than any other royal woman.

Not true. Racism.

It comes to something when women MPs stood up for her by putting pen to paper but the royal household did nada.

Show me one racist tabloid article

BigWillyLittleTodger · 25/07/2024 21:55

TinklySnail · 25/07/2024 21:50

Show me one racist tabloid article

Even in the Oprah interview they couldn’t, they had to pretend.

Screamingabdabz · 25/07/2024 22:21

TinklySnail · 25/07/2024 20:04

I believe they are liars because they are.
Had a secret wedding - Lie
Archie refused royal title -Lie
It wasn’t the tabloids who said these things was it. It was M&H
Cases were won but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t lie.

The engagement interview (with respected journalists who pre-agreed questions) was a poorly organised reality show that shocked and traumatised them (or something to that effect) - lie

Megan said in that interview that Harry had warned her about press intrusion and she was willing to take that on as part and parcel of working royal life - BIG fat lie

The age old tradition of curtsying to the queen was a hilarious moment like she was in some tacky American theme park parody - disrespectful and lacking any cultural awareness

Kate had upset Megan over bridesmaid dresses not the other way around and she was the magnanimous one - who knows if this is a lie or not, but there is only one person bigging themselves up and talking trash about the other (clue: it ain’t Kate)

Nosummerontheagenda · 25/07/2024 22:58

JSMill · 25/07/2024 13:12

It was bad mouthing his family to various outlets which caused his rift with his family. I think he thought that would increase his global popularity so he wouldn't need the RF when actually the opposite happened. Now he needs his royal connections, he is backtracking. It's just like when he told Tom Bradby that it was the media who called the RF following the OW interview. He is a man child who cannot take responsibility for his own decisions.

This. Along with the comment about him seeing himself as a dragon slayer. He just can’t take responsibility for the consequences of his appalling actions. It’s always someone else’s fault.

JSMill · 25/07/2024 23:05

Didn't ITV have to remove the 'racist' headlines before the interview could be broadcast in the UK because they were made up?

mummyrolling2014 · 25/07/2024 23:10

Trashing his family in a book, on the Oprah Winfrey show, in a Netflix documentary, and he has the nerve to talk about press invasion. Did he ask his family's permission to reveal personal secrets? Why is it one rule for him to 'speak his truth' no matter who gets hurt but no one can say a damn thing about him? If marrying someone leads to being isolated from your whole family and friends and isolated from your in laws, thats a massive red flag for anyone. Classic case of 'everyone is wrong except us'. Causing misery to the Queen in her last year, naming their daughter the Queen's personal name to Prince Philip and bringing their personal photographer along when Lilibet was seeing the Queen as they were desperate for the pic of the two because they knew it would be worth millions. The Queen wasn't having any of it and didn't allow it as she knew what they were up to. And they have the nerve to talk about invasion of privacy - the list could go on.

Mylovelygreendress · 26/07/2024 08:02

This kind of sums it up

www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-13673943/JAN-MOIR-Harry-outrageous-claim.html

Janiie · 26/07/2024 08:43

TinklySnail · 25/07/2024 21:50

Show me one racist tabloid article

Honestly, one LA reporter said 'Straight Outta Compton'. I repeat, an LA reporter and Danny Baker posted an offensive tweet that was unanimously criticised and he was sacked for it. That's it. The rest has been sm trolling, not tabloid racism. Much like what they all are subjected to except the rest of the RF just ignore and rise above it. Unlike the Sussexes who made a reality career out of it. I wonder how much her dm fanned the flames and projected.

They never criticise the trolling of others do they,

Uricon2 · 26/07/2024 08:49

"...anything I say about my family results in a torrent of abuse from the press."

"Anything I say about my family is a torrent of abuse".

More like it?

smilesy · 26/07/2024 08:53

In the comments section of one paper, someone has said that if this is Harry’s purpose in life, then it seems like a “joyless existence just marking time until it is over”. I really agree with this. Being a perpetual victim and blaming others seems to be his full time occupation and there seems to be absolutely no happiness to be gained, and certainly no peace through this course of action. I wonder if he will ever come to see this?

sausawyee · 26/07/2024 08:57

BemusedAmerican · 25/07/2024 12:57

He's still trying to depict himself as dragonslayer.

Yeah he's such a fucking hero.

sausawyee · 26/07/2024 08:59

smilesy · 26/07/2024 08:53

In the comments section of one paper, someone has said that if this is Harry’s purpose in life, then it seems like a “joyless existence just marking time until it is over”. I really agree with this. Being a perpetual victim and blaming others seems to be his full time occupation and there seems to be absolutely no happiness to be gained, and certainly no peace through this course of action. I wonder if he will ever come to see this?

And it must detract from his personal life in such a huge way. I know he doesn't work as such but still it must take him physically and mentally away from his young family. It's such a short and precious span of time that we usually never realise until it's gone.

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 26/07/2024 09:01

The level of delusion and gaslighting from him is outrageous. I love how he pretends that he and his wife haven’t been setting the media on his own family with tell all interviews and bombshell allegations. He and M play the media game like it’s WW3 and he wants to wipe out his family.

Just look at what he did to his dying grandfather, terminally ill grandmother, cancer stricken father and SIL. The man has no empathy. He is complete narcissist.

Janiie · 26/07/2024 09:04

Uricon2 · 26/07/2024 08:49

"...anything I say about my family results in a torrent of abuse from the press."

"Anything I say about my family is a torrent of abuse".

More like it?

'Anything I say'. What, does he mean him revealing very private and personal details about people who haven't consented to this info being made public?

'Anything I say' my arse. It is what he says that rightly has people criticise him.

He is just like a tabloid reporter. Why can't he see it?!

DeftLemonDog · 26/07/2024 09:04

Honestly, one LA reporter said 'Straight Outta Compton'. I repeat, an LA reporter and Danny Baker posted an offensive tweet that was unanimously criticised and he was sacked for it. That's it. The rest has been sm trolling, not tabloid racism. Much like what they all are subjected to except the rest of the RF just ignore and rise above it. Unlike the Sussexes who made a reality career out of it. I wonder how much her dm fanned the flames and projected.

An LA based journalist employed by the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail paid for it, and published it for UK readers.

From Linked in:

  • DailyMail.com
  • 8 years 11 months
  • Senior Reporter
  • Oct 2018 - Present 5 years 10 months
  • Greater Los Angeles Area
  • News and showbiz exclusives
  • LA reporter
  • Sep 2015 - Present 8 years 11 months
  • Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Interested in exclusive stories, whether political, showbiz, royal or anything else. Broke Ryan Lochte lying story at the Rio 2016 Olympics - and many more.

Ruth Styles got her postgrad degree in journalism from City University London.

People on SM obviously played a part, they still do.

popthepopcorns · 26/07/2024 09:14

DeftLemonDog · 26/07/2024 09:04

Honestly, one LA reporter said 'Straight Outta Compton'. I repeat, an LA reporter and Danny Baker posted an offensive tweet that was unanimously criticised and he was sacked for it. That's it. The rest has been sm trolling, not tabloid racism. Much like what they all are subjected to except the rest of the RF just ignore and rise above it. Unlike the Sussexes who made a reality career out of it. I wonder how much her dm fanned the flames and projected.

An LA based journalist employed by the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail paid for it, and published it for UK readers.

From Linked in:

  • DailyMail.com
  • 8 years 11 months
  • Senior Reporter
  • Oct 2018 - Present 5 years 10 months
  • Greater Los Angeles Area
  • News and showbiz exclusives
  • LA reporter
  • Sep 2015 - Present 8 years 11 months
  • Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Interested in exclusive stories, whether political, showbiz, royal or anything else. Broke Ryan Lochte lying story at the Rio 2016 Olympics - and many more.

Ruth Styles got her postgrad degree in journalism from City University London.

People on SM obviously played a part, they still do.

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Is that it? Such a long post to say what exactly?

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sausawyee · 26/07/2024 09:23

@Janiie " anything I saw about my family" maybe he needs to keep his big mouth shut then. There are many more " important" people than him who say nothing.

We know about his todger, his drug taking, his hatred of people, his matron, his first shag, pregnancy tests, his mother's hair, the singing seals - all a bunch of crap that came FROM HIS OWN BIG MOUTH - no one investigated and found this out and exposed him. He did it willingly and for 💵 💵 💵.

Gorgonemilezola · 26/07/2024 09:23

'People on SM obviously played a part, they still do.'

Are you referring to the Sussex Squad? You know, the online faction personally and publically thanked for their support by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The ones who's bile against the royal family and particularly Kate and William knows no bounds. Those people on SM?

sausawyee · 26/07/2024 09:27

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