Prince Harry Details the Tabloids’ Effect on His Relationship With Ex Chelsy Davy in 55-Page Testimony

Prince Harry took the stand in his phone-hacking case against the publishers of the Daily Mirror on Tuesday, June 6, delivering 55-pages of witness testimony. And many of the tabloid news articles Harry takes issue with involve his relationship with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.

Speaking of a piece published about his alleged reunion with Chelsy following a breakup in 2007, Harry said, via The Telegraph, “These kinds of articles made me feel as though my relationship with Chelsy was always set to be doomed. We couldn’t even meet in private or have arguments over the telephone, without the Defendant somehow learning these details and publishing them for the whole country to see. Again, it was just that feeling of being under surveillance all the time. I believe Chelsy found this even more difficult to deal with when she lived in England.”

Elsewhere in his witness statement, Harry explained that he felt as though tabloids preferred it when he was single:

“I always felt as if the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers,” he wrote. “Whenever I got into a relationship, they were very keen to report the details but would then, very quickly, seek to try and break it up by putting as much strain on it and creating as much distrust as humanly possible.”

He also noted, “Whenever I have been in a relationship, I have always tried to be the best partner that I possibly could, but every woman has her limit. Unfortunately, they are not just in a relationship with me but with the entire tabloid press as the third party.”

You can read all 55 pages of Harry’s testimony over here.

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