Prince Harry Is All Smiles Leaving Phone Hacking Trial in London After 2nd Day of Testifying: Photo
08.06.2023 - 00:07
/ usmagazine.com
Royally unbothered? Prince Harry was all smiles leaving court after his second day of testifying in his phone hacking trial.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, waved to reporters and cameras dressed in a navy suit and gray tie while walking out of London’s High Court on Wednesday, June 7. The prince’s lawsuit against the Mirror Group Newspapers went to trial on Monday, June 5, with Harry taking the stand for the first time on Tuesday, June 6.
During his second day of testifying, the BetterUp CIO discussed his past relationship with Caroline Flack, who died by suicide in 2020. In a written statement, Harry expressed his belief that the press engaged in voicemail hacking to discover that he was having a poker night in 2009 — which he invited Flack to attend — at his friend Mark Dyer’s apartment.
“Marko and I had exchanged voicemails about the night we had planned, and given the way I left, there’s no way I could have been followed coming down from Lincolnshire. Only Marko, Caroline and I knew of the plans, there was only a couple of other people invited and I don’t think they knew that Caroline would be joining us,” he wrote in the statement, noting that he became “highly suspicious” and “convinced” that someone had leaked information to the press.
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The Archewell cofounder — who relocated to the United States in 2020 after he and wife Meghan Markle stepped down from their roles as senior royals — admitted that he started to doubt Flack and Dyer. He and his brother, Prince William, “stopped talking” to Dyer “for a while” as a result.
“I now believe this information had come from our voicemails — mine, Marko’s or Caroline’s. The impact these kinds of stories had on my relationships