He did two tours of Afghanistan during his decade-long stint in the British army, but Prince Harry is now embroiled in a war of a different kind. The Duke of Sussex, 38, is one of a group of celebrities that filed a lawsuit back in 2019 against the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over allegations of phone hacking, with the case only recently making it to court.
Harry and the other claimants are accusing MGN titles of habitually engaging in widespread phone hacking, deception and other illicit means to access private information between 1991 and 2011. It’s said that senior executives had full knowledge of the unlawful behaviour at the, and, with the claimants saying they not only failed to stop it but had actively covered it up.
