Prince Harry explains why he doesn’t want Meghan Markle back to the UK

Prince Harry He talks frankly about why he doesn’t feel safe taking his wife, Meghan Markleor their children in the UK.

Harry, 39, recently He sat down for an interview as part of an ITV documentary. Popular newspapers on trialWhich detailed the various disputes between high-profile public figures and the British tabloids, as well as the long-running legal entanglements over alleged phone hacking rampant by some in the British press. The documentary focuses in part on Harry’s legal battle against the Mirror Group newspapers [MGN]. torment Solve your hacking issue Against Mirror Group Newspapers in February.

Discussing his lawsuit and his many public calls for reform and accountability, Harry said, “I’m trying to get justice for everyone. This is a David versus Goliath situation, [where] David’s family are the complainants, and Goliath is a huge media corporation.

While Harry said he felt “vindicated” by his court victory over MGN last year, the prince said “phone hacking has been going on for a long time”. [and] “A lot has been revealed now that the people and the British public did not know about.”

Being hounded by paparazzi and photographers and followed by tabloid reporters is something Harry said he suffered from for a long time, explaining: “I felt harassed. It was horrible at the time. It’s horrible now.”

“That’s one of the reasons why I won’t be bringing my wife back to this country,” Harry said.

His departure from the UK for the US – where he and Meghan are raising their 5-year-old son Archie and 3-year-old daughter Lilibet – was one of the reasons for the rift between him and his current family. However, Harry says it was his battle with the press that strained relations further.

“It is now clear to everyone that the risk of facing the press and the risk of such retaliation against them in pursuing these allegations – and clearly not in this regard,” he added. [the royal family’s] “I’m interested in doing that,” Harry said. “But, you know, it’s a difficult question to answer because anything I say about my family gets 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 great if we did it as a family. I think, again, from a service point of view and when you’re in a public role, these are things that we need to do for the greater good.”

I think everything that’s happened has shown people what it is. For me, the mission continues, but yes, there is. It has, as you say, caused some of the rift.

Harry with his wife Meghan Markle, They deviated from their royal duties. In 2020. More than four years later, that rift is still alive and well, especially when it comes to Harry’s relationship, or lack thereof, with his brother Prince William, who current expert Katie Nicholl said in October 2022 was He couldn’t forgive Harry..

Although Harry has settled his phone hacking case with Mirror Group Newspapers (a deal that saw MGN pay $505,000), his battle is far from over. Harry and the other complainants are Ready to go to trial with News Group Newspaperseditor the sunIn January 2025, over allegations of illegal information gathering. In that case, Harry was criticized after his lawyer the sun I accused himintentionally“Destroying the letters he exchanged with his 2023 memoirist, Memorizes.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry claims that his late mother, Princess Diana, “was probably one of the first people to be hacked.”

“Even today, the tabloid press likes to portray her as paranoid,” said Harry, whose family has been affected. The ongoing struggle for privacy Decades and decades of information. “But she wasn’t paranoid, she was absolutely certain of what was happening to her. And she wasn’t there to know the truth.

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