- Piers Morgan accuses Prince Harry
- High Court cites phone hacking
- Morgan denies hacking involvement
Prince Harry was also accused by Piers Morgan, editor-in-chief of The Mirror from 1995 to 2004, of adopting a “hypocritical” stance regarding privacy.
Piers Morgan, a former editor of The Mirror, launched a vitriolic attack against Prince Harry. He said Prince Harry wanted to “destroy the monarchy” after the High Court’s privacy ruling.
In an afternoon statement issued outside Prince Harry’s residence, Mr. Morgan labeled him “hypocritical” regarding privacy.
A High Court judge identified phone hacking conducted by the Mirror Group newspapers as “widespread and habitual” in 1998. The hacking spanned the years 1996 to 2011. He cited a 2015 court decision that determined hacking was “systematic and widespread” between 1999 and 2006.
He found it “convincing” that Mr. Morgan ran the newspaper and knew about phone hacking.
From 1995 to 2004, the broadcaster oversaw the editing of The Mirror.
However, this afternoon, the former editor stated, “During my nine-year tenure as editor, The Daily Mirror published only one article about the Prince that the High Court judge believes may have involved illicit information gathering.
To be explicit, I had no knowledge or understanding of how that specific story was compiled at the time.
Mr. Morgan wished to emphasize, “I have never hacked a phone nor instructed another person to do so.”
“Neither party called me as a witness, nor did they request that I provide a statement in the case.” “Had I been asked, I would have gladly agreed to do either or both of those things,” he further stated.
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Thus, I could not counter the many baseless claims made in court by former adversaries with grudges against me.
Morgan: The “true mission” of the Prince is to “destroy the monarchy.”
Mr. Morgan made the following remark regarding Prince Harry, a defendant in the case against The Mirror: “Prince Harry’s anger at the media’s intrusion into the private affairs of the Royal Family is merely mirrored by his own greedy, self-centered, and selfish eagerness to do the same.
“He also claims he is on a mission to reform the media, despite the fact that it becomes evident that he and his spouse’s true objective is to overthrow the British monarchy.”
“Today, he spoke regarding the abhorrent conduct exhibited by the press.” However, this individual has publicly disparaged his family on numerous occasions for hundreds of millions of dollars, even though his grandparents, two of its most senior and esteemed members, were nearing death.
He continued that it is difficult to fathom more abhorrent conduct than that.
“Regarding his assertion that today is a fine day for the truth, the duke has been exposed on multiple occasions in recent years as an individual who, if pressed against it, would not recognize the fact with a California-tanned visage.
He urges the press to be held accountable yet declines to accept responsibility for its smearing of his own family, the Royal Family, as a group of indifferent bigots without providing even the tiniest amount of evidence to substantiate such abhorrent assertions.
Additionally, the broadcaster targeted royal journalist Omid Scobie and former political strategist Alastair Campbell, who testified in the case.
Mr. Morgan stated that the judge seemingly accepted the testimony of Omid Scobie, who fabricated information regarding me in his new book and court proceedings. As a result, Scobie is now universally recognized as a delusional fantasist.
He accepted the testimony of Alastair Campbell, another fraudster who led the US into an illegal war.
