As Prince Harry presented himself as a witness in his privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail, he fought back tears and said the media made his wife Meghan Markle’s life an “absolute misery”. “I think it is fundamentally wrong to have to put all of us through this again when all we were asking for is an apology and some accountability,” Harry said appearing in a London court. “It is a horrible experience, and the worst of it is that by sitting up here and taking a stand against them … they continue to come after me.”“For the avoidance of doubt, I am not friends with any of these journalists and I never have been,” he said, shooting down claims that he was pally with the journalist who covered the Royal Family.“My social circles were not leaky. I want to make that absolutely clear.”In his witness statement, Harry also invoked his late mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash on Aug. 31, 1997, at the age of 36, while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris.”Following the death of my mother in 1997 when I was 12 years old and her treatment at the hands of the press, I have always had an uneasy relationship with them,” the statement read. “However, as a member of the Institution the policy was to ‘never complain, never explain.’ There was no alternative; I was conditioned to accept it. For the most part, I accepted the interest in my performing my public functions.” “However, in late 2016, when my relationship with Meghan, my now wife, became public, I started to become increasingly troubled by the approach of not taking action against the press in the wake of vicious persistent attacks on, harassment of and intrusive, sometimes racist articles concerning Meghan,” the statement continued.
