As Prince Harry makes history as the first royal to be cross-examined in court since the 19th century, his full 55-page witness statement has been released.
In it, the Duke of Sussex goes into detail about his relationship with the United Kingdom tabloid press and the reason he is suing the publishers of the Daily Mirror, which he accuses of he accuses of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping.
It's the first of his several lawsuits against the media to go to a full trial and Mirror Group Newspapers is contesting the claims.
Here are some of the key quotes from Harry's written witness statement released by the court:
'Playboy prince', 'thicko', 'cheat'
"In my experience as a member of the royal family, each of us gets cast into a specific role by the tabloid press. You start off as a blank canvas while they work out what kind of person you are and what kind of problems and temptations you might have.
"They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the 'spare' to the 'heir'. You're then either the 'playboy prince', the 'failure', the 'drop out' or, in my case, the 'thicko', the 'cheat', the 'underage drinker', the 'irresponsible drug taker', the list goes on.
"As a teenager and in my early twenties, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes that they wanted to pin on me mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well 'do the crime', so to speak.
"It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me, a 'damaged' young man, into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers. Looking back on it now, such behaviour on their part is utterly vile."
Tabloids 'wanted me to be single'
"Whilst they would, of course, report on my successes in life, it seemed to me that they took far greater pleasure in knocking me down, time and time again. This extended to my relationships."
"I always felt as if the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers.
"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, as I shall go into in more detail later in this statement.
"This twisted objective is still pursued to this day even though I'm now married."
Harry's relationships and the press
"I genuinely feel that in every relationship that I've ever had — be that with friends, girlfriends, with family or with the army, there's always been a third party involved, namely the tabloid press.
"Having seen me grow up from a baby (being born into this 'contractual relationship' without any choice) and scrutinised my every move, the tabloids have known the challenges and mental health struggles that I have had to deal with throughout my childhood and adult life and for them to then play on that and use it to their own advantage, I think is, well, criminal."
Anger at former Daily Mirror editor
"The thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother's private and sensitive messages (in the same way as they have me) and then having given her a 'nightmare time' three months prior to her death in Paris, makes me feel physically sick and even more determined to hold those responsible, including Mr Morgan, accountable for their vile and entirely unjustified behaviour."
'Did you not get my voicemail?'
"I remember on multiple occasions hearing a voicemail for the first time that wasn't 'new', but I don't remember thinking that it was particularly unusual – I would simply put it down to perhaps a technical glitch, as mobile phones were still relatively new back then, or even just having too many drinks the night before (and having forgotten that I'd listened to it).
"I wouldn't go into my voicemail unless the little envelope symbol flashed up on my phone signalling to me that I had a new message. Sometimes this symbol would vanish before I had a chance to listen to the voicemail.
"I don't know how long after they'd been listened to that the symbol vanished, presumably straight away. I also distinctly remember people saying to me 'did you not get my voicemail?' on both a personal and a work-related level.
"I was like, "no", and sometimes I would go back into my voicemail to look for it but still couldn't find it."
Diana was 'fearful', not 'paranoid'
"It's only now, realising what the defendant's journalists were doing, and how they were getting their information, that I can see how much of my life was wasted on this paranoia.
"I've always heard people refer to my mother as paranoid, but she wasn't. She was fearful of what was actually happening to her and now I know that I was the same."
Concerns about coverage on royals' trip to Australia
"This article [BEACH BUM HARRY], which appeared on page 19 of the Daily Mirror, written by Jane Kerr and accompanied by various photographs of me in the sea, reports that after leaving the ranch where I'd undertaken work on my gap year, I had gone to the beach resort of Noosa with some friends.
"I remember this day so clearly, we were staying in a house and, after visiting Steve Irwin's crocodile zoo in the morning, we had gone out on to the beach in front of the house in the afternoon.
"It was a public beach, but not busy or popular so I'm unclear how anyone had known we were there, to be in the right place at the right time to take photographs. I wasn't aware of anyone taking photographs at the time.
"I only learnt recently that the Queen had asked one of her assistant private secretaries to fly out to Noosa and take a house down the road from where I was staying, without me knowing.
"She was concerned about the extent of the coverage of my trip and wanted someone I knew to be nearby, in case I needed support."
The supposed impact on British democracy
"I feel that I need to make sure that this unlawful behaviour is exposed, because obviously I don't want anybody else going through the same thing that I've been going through on a personal level.
"But also, on a national level as, at the moment, our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government — both of which I believe are at rock bottom.
"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo."
'How much more blood will stain their typing fingers'
"Finding out about this level of cover up is what makes me want to see my MGN claim through to the end, so people can really understand what happened.
"The fact that it was not just the journalists who were carrying out the unlawful activity, but also those in power who were turning a blind eye to it so as to ensure that it would continue unabated, and who then tried to cover it up when the game was up is appalling.
"The fact they're all ganging up to protect each other, like they first did after Leveson [a wide-ranging inquiry into the UK press], is the most disturbing part of it all, especially as they're the mothership of online trolling. Trolls react and mobilise to stories they create.
"People have died as a result, and people will continue to kill themselves by suicide when they can't see any other way out. How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness."
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