A former Royal correspondent has claimed that Prince Harry's involvement in the suing of Daily Mail owner Associated Newspapers has shone the "spotlight" back on him and wife Meghan.
This news comes as Prince Harry launches a lawsuit against the publication this week, alongside the likes of Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost and Baroness Doreen Lawrence. The Express reports that royal expert Nicholas Owen is examining the case, and speculates that the outrage at the press "goes back to his mother", Princess Diana.
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Nicholas spoke to GB News about the lawsuit, remarking: "But people will be focusing, as you say, on Prince Harry, and by extension his wife, Meghan Markle, who have a lot of background in suing, particularly Associated Newspapers - mostly successfully, it has to be said."
The Royal expert later claimed: "I'll tell you one thing, from the point of view of a former royal correspondent, like myself, turns the spotlight straight back from all the funeral Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III - here we are back to Prince Harry and, inevitably, Meghan."
However, GB News presenter Stephen Dixon did state: ""It's got to be said, Associated Newspapers are vigorously denying this."
Nicholas replied: "They are, they are - they call it they call it preposterous. I mean, there's a whole long list of allegations being made here. They range from things that you might expect to things that you don't expect."
When discussing the allegations in the lawsuit, the expert continued: "If there's any grounds at all in them, this is going to open up the most enormous row.
"As I say, it puts the spotlight straight back on a side of the Royal Family and previous legal cases, of which there have been many, and Harry himself. There's a nice picture you've got of him there being very cheerful, but not cheerful, really when it comes to the media, and why?
"Because we go back to the days of his mother, Princess Diana, 25 years ago. And there's another major connection - two major connections there.
"First of all, she suffered obviously, everybody knows, at the hands of the media and the paparazzi possibly chased her to a terribly untimely death. But also, Elton John. Elton John, the other major figure in this latest action, [was] very, very close to Princess Diana, performed at her funeral and was extremely friendly with her."
The expert went on to point out that Elton John is also good friends with both Harry and Prince William. He said: "Then, in later years became extremely friendly with her sons, both Harry and William.
"Of course, William is not mentioned in this at all, one should be clear. But he then became extremely friendly with Meghan. So I think you ran some pictures a little earlier on - very interesting pictures of Elton John and David Furnish, who we see in the centre there in the picture with Harry and Meghan.
"And Elton John putting his arms around Meghan in a lovely hugging gesture - great friends together whispering in her ear something nice. But it does emphasise that is this is a really big, big deal. And I have to say in all my years in this trade, and there have been a few, I don't recall anything remotely like it."
A spokesperson from Associated Newspapers said in a statement: "We utterly and unambiguously refute these preposterous smears which appear to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal concerning articles up to 30 years old.
"These unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims – based on no credible evidence – appear to be simply a fishing expedition by claimants and their lawyers, some of whom have already pursued cases elsewhere."
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