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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Caroline Davies

Prince Harry ordered to explain why ghostwriter messages were destroyed

Prince Harry
The duke was accused of ‘obfuscation’ by lawyers for News Group Newspapers. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

The Duke of Sussex has been ordered to explain why messages with his ghostwriter were destroyed after the publication of his memoir Spare when they could be relevant to his legal battle with the publishers of the Sun.

Prince Harry was also told to attempt to retrieve the messages from the messaging service Signal, and his lawyers ordered to search through his other texts, WhatsApp messages and emails from 2005 to January 2023, when his bestselling autobiography was published, for relevant documents.

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