Prince Harry and Prince William recently made significant announcements.
Prince Harry is set to participate in a documentary about phone hacking claims against tabloid newspapers, alongside fellow victims including Hugh Grant. The documentary, slated to be broadcast on ITV on July 25, will feature an interview with the Duke of Sussex, chronicling his court case against Associated Newspapers Limited, publisher of the Daily Mail, and News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun.
This will be the first time he addresses his claim against Mirror Group Newspapers, for which he was awarded £140,600 in compensation after 15 of 33 articles were found to have been the product of phone hacking or unlawful information gathering.
The announcement comes only days after Prince William was reported to star in a documentary about his first year in the Homelessness Project.
Besides Harry, the documentary will feature celebrities such as Love Actually star Hugh Grant, singer Charlotte Church, and former footballer Paul Gascoigne, as well as other members of the public who were subjected to the dark side of newspapers.
The logline of the documentary reads: “The phone-hacking scandal exposed a murky tabloid world where stealing secrets was big business and privacy was meaningless. It’s been almost two decades since the story broke, and subsequent legal actions have revealed that hacking was apparently just the start, with victims accusing some of Britain’s biggest newspapers of tapping landlines, fitting properties with listening devices, and even burglaries to order – all in the name of journalism – allegations that have been strongly denied.”
