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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jim Waterson Media editor

Daily Mirror accused of hacking Diana’s phone during friendship with Michael Barrymore

Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1996
Extracts of a letter read in court showed Diana apologising to Barrymore for the leak, saying she did not know how the news had got out, given ‘nobody knew about our conversations’. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

The phone of Diana, Princess of Wales was allegedly hacked by Piers Morgan’s Daily Mirror in an attempt to obtain details about her secret meetings with the comedian Michael Barrymore.

The high court heard that Diana had regularly talked to Barrymore in the months before her death, at a time when they were two of the most famous people in Britain. The television presenter was “struggling with coming out as gay”, as well as dealing with an addiction to alcohol and drugs.

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