Piers Morgan encouraged illegal targeting of Diana, says Prince Harry

Piers Morgan, who hosts a nightly show on Murdoch’s TalkTV channel, has always denied any knowledge of phone hacking during his time as a tabloid editor. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Prince Harry has claimed Piers Morgan “knew about, encouraged and concealed” illegal targeting of Diana, Princess of Wales when he was editor of the News of the World.

Harry alleges that his mother’s private text messages and phone calls were obtained by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers before she died, with the information used as the basis for multiple stories in the Sun and the News of the World.