Why Megs Blanked Morgan

No senior member of the Royal Family had testified in court for more than 130 years. But extraordinary times bring extraordinary actions, and thus the appearance this morning of Prince Harry at the High Court. The action taken by himself, and some others, was against the Mirror titles, who stand accused of illegal information gathering, including phone hacking.

He's still utterly unpersuasive

As the BBC has reported, “Unlawful information-gathering ‘acted like a web’ around Prince Harry, a court has heard during his trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) … His barrister told London's High Court no aspect of his youth was safe from press intrusion - citing stories about his relationship with Chelsy Davy appearing in the Mirror”. David Sherborne had more.

“These methods acted like a web around the prince in the hope it would catch the valuable information that they sought through these unlawful means … The ups and downs and ins and outs of their relationship, the beginning, the break-ups and finally the split between them were all revealed and picked apart by the three Mirror Group titles … It was as if they were never alone”.

That perceived level of intrusion would be enough to turn any individual paranoid, and Harry has admitted thus, as Dan Evans notes in Byline Times. As to his past relationships with girlfriends and then his wife, “Unfortunately, they are not just in a relationship with me but with the entire tabloid press as the third party … [the newspapers were always] ultimately trying to ruin it using whatever unlawful means at their disposal”. There was more.

“I don’t understand (and never have) how the inner, private details of my relationships, for example, could have anything to do with the wellbeing of society or the running of the country and therefore be in the public interest or, indeed, how the use of voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering techniques to uncover such private information could be either”.

So we can now see why he and Megs left the UK: the destructive effect of so much personal, insensitive, intrusive and indeed abusive coverage on their wellbeing, and that of their son, is obvious. And then we arrive at the presence in all of this of former Screws and Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan.

Piers who?

Morgan, a deeply immodest individual with much to be modest about, has demonstrated, and continues to demonstrate, an unhealthy and indeed creepy obsession towards Megs. This is, in part, because he got to know her moderately well before she became engaged to Haz. Then she blanked him. Harry’s witness statement tells you why she might have done that.

Haz quotes Morgan’s book The Insider: “TV comic [Michael Barrymore] has recently been treated in a clinic for booze and drug addiction, and I’d heard rumours that Diana had been secretly comforting him”. HOWEVER “Morgan’s Mirror wrote about six private Sunday evening meetings between Diana and Barrymore, the exposure of which ‘devastated’ the princess, according to Harry’s statement”. Private meetings. What say Haz?

“I can only assume that this information had been obtained via voicemail interception and/or other unlawful information gathering such as live land line tapping”. And that is part of what he is alleging, as well as naming a long line of those also affected by unlawful information gathering, from The King all the way to his former nanny … and the late Caroline Flack.

About whom, and Diana, he said in court: “People have died as a result, and people will continue to kill themselves by suicide when they can’t see any other way out. How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness?” Who had blood on their hands?

“Some of these editors and journalists responsible for causing pain, upset, and in some cases inadvertently, death”. Having already said “The thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother’s private and sensitive messages (in the same way as they have me) and then having given her a ‘nightmare time’ three months prior to her death in Paris, makes me feel physically sick”. All of which answers that initial question.

Why did Megs blank Morgan so suddenly? That has now been revealed.

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