Prince Harry takes on the royal family in court in London

Account settlements in London. Prince Harry has accused the British royal family of hiding information from him about telephone tapping carried out by British tabloids, in a statement released on Tuesday March 28 as part of the legal proceedings he has brought against the publisher of the DailyMail.

The youngest son of King Charles III attended a hearing at the High Court in London for the second day in a row on Tuesday in the multi-celebrity lawsuit against the Associated Newspaper (ANL), accused of gathering information in a manner illegal. In his witness statement signed on February 24 and which AFP was able to consult, Harry evokes his “difficult relationship with the press” since the death of his mother Diana but explains that “for a member of the institution, the policy was ‘never complain, never explain'”.

A surprise visit to London

He says the royal family dissuaded him from suing the press because “it could open a pandora’s box”. ‘There is no doubt that the (royal) institution has long withheld information about phone hacking from me, and this only became clear in recent years when I filed my own complaint’did he declare.

Harry, who only travels to the UK exceptionally, made a surprise visit to London to attend the hearing at which ANL is trying to defeat the lawsuits brought by the king’s son, but also singer Elton John or the actress Liz Hurley. The six plaintiffs accuse ANL of employing detectives to wiretap them.