Prince Harry Files Complaint Against Media AGAIN, This Time Over Article About His Security Demands on Her Majesty Government
Duke of Sussex angry that The Mail on Sunday for sharing that he wanted to confidentially pursue his security case against the Home Office
Prince Harry is filing a new lawsuit, against The Mail on Sunday over an article published on February 20th regarding his ongoing lawsuit against the Home Office over his U.K. security detail. This is the latest in a series of lawsuits that Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have filed against publications that dare to go against their established narrative and PR spin.
Since leaving the royal family, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have seemingly spent most of their time filing one lawsuit after another, much to the annoyance of Spotify and Netflix.
The latest target is a familiar foe for the couple, The Mail on Sunday.
Though there are currently few details about the case, per a spokesman for Harry: “I can confirm the duke has filed a complaint against Associated Newspapers Limited.”
This complaint focuses on an article published on Sunday entitled: “Revealed: How Harry tried to keep his legal fight over bodyguards secret,” which has since been renamed: “EXCLUSIVE: How Prince Harry tried to keep his legal fight over police bodyguards a SECRET…then – just minutes after the story broke – his PR machine tried to put a positive spin on the dispute.”
The article claims that Harry “sought a far-reaching confidentiality order on documents and witness statements surrounding his case against the Government.”
The Home Office disagreed, and wanted transparency over the matter, stating, “there must be a sufficiently good reason, in the wider public interest, to justify the departure from open justice that such an order involves.”
Apparently, revealing that Harry wanted the matter to remain out of the media spotlight and demanded a “far-reaching confidentiality order” angered him, per reports from The Times of London.
This lawsuit is perhaps the most frivolous to date, and most telling of the Sussex perspective.
The Mail on Sunday’s crime wasn’t that it misquoted or misconstrued the situation, but that it actually quoted the Home Office and showed that Harry’s whole security narrative was a lie.
During the court proceedings, it came to light that when Harry first approached the Home Office about security, he never offered paying for it himself. He always wanted the U.K. taxpayer to fund the bill for him and his family. But as the trial against the Home Office commenced and the public reacted negatively to the lawsuit, he suddenly reversed course stating that he would cover the costs.
The additional revelation that he wanted to keep the matter entirely confidential is what probably most upset the whiney prince.
Harry and Meghan have never been about transparency or honesty, but subterfuge and misdirection.
They did that with Archie’s birth, telling the media that Meghan went into labor after she had already given birth. It was a very public lie, which frustrated royal reporters who felt like they “looked stupid.” Then they continued to mislead the public about who was involved in the birth and where she gave birth. This ridiculous misdirection continues to fuel speculation that Archie was delivered via surrogacy.
Why that level of intrigue over the birth of the constitutionally irrelevant seventh-in-line to the throne is entirely unclear. After all, Archie’s life and his parent’s life were funded by the taxpayers. Though a necessary degree of privacy is a good thing, if the public is paying you millions of dollars per year, they deserve to know something as simple as where you’ve given birth.
The couple isn’t interested in privacy, no matter how many times they wail about how they need this for their family to stay safe—they want secrecy. They want to provide the public with a carefully cultivated image that they believe paints them in the best light.
But like everything tied to the Sussex’s, it backfires spectacularly.
This latest stunt with the media is asinine, petty and unbelievably stupid, but perhaps this is the only way the couple believes they can make any money. Clearly the Spotify project crashed and burned, and there’s nothing from Netflix yet. The couple is likely hemorrhaging cash and hoping for another legal payday that they can give to their “charity.”
What they forget in their legal maneuverings is that the public, when it comes to their money and resources, have a right to know what’s going on. This court case is costing the taxpayers time and money, and they deserve to know the inner workings of what’s happening.
This isn't the 1500s after all.
That’s why every bit of this trial must be public, and hopefully this latest complaint will be dismissed as simply a childish move of a petulant man who is angry that he now has to pay his own bills.