By Gabriel Princewill-
Prince Harry confirmed that he and his wife Meghan Markle are hurting about ”mostly untrue ” media coverage over the past few months, about which he said he has put on a brave face.
The British prince was speaking during a televised Itv documentary concluding their South African tour in the middle of which they announced a legal suit against The Daily Mail Online for allegedly breaching copyright laws when they published a letter she wrote to her father.
He said: “I thought I was out of the woods and then suddenly it all came back, and this is something that I have to manage.
“Part of this job is putting on a brave face, but for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.”
The Dutch Of Sussex’s comments echoed previous sentiments he made after declaring his legal grievance with the press whom he accused of bullying his wife with no thought of the consequences of their actions. A subsequent High Court legal suit in relation to historical hacking dating back a decade against The Sun newspaper, The defunct News Of The World, and The Daily Mirror is also pending.
The latter legal fight may embroil television presenter, Piers Morgan, who was Editor Of The Mirror at the time. Morgan has recently criticised Meghan Markle for alleged hypocrisy. Morgan openly reacted to a social media post by Meghan Markle in which she was advocating charitable ways by telling the Dutchess Of Sussex that ”charity begins at home”.
The television presenter said it was hypocritical of the Dutchess Of Sussex to speak about charity whilst completely cutting her father out of her life.
PATHS
Harry spoke of good and bad days when talking about his relationship with his older brother, Prince William. He added: “”We are brothers. We will always be brothers. “We are certainly on different paths at the moment but I will always be there for him as I know he will always be there for me.
His wife, Meghan, who has entrance to the royal family has been controversial and found her on the receiving end of a lot of media criticism admitted being warned by her friends not to marry Prince William because her life would be destroyed by the British press.
Prince Harry went on to express future plans for his wife and himself to base themselves in Africa. He told broadcaster Tom Bradby: ”I don’t know where we could live in Africa at the moment.
”We’ve just come from Cape Town, that would be an amazing place for us to be able to to base ourselves, of course it would.
‘But with all the problems that are going on there I just don’t see how we would be able to really make as much difference as we’d want to.’
HAPPY
Meghan Markle also had a segment with Bradby in which she expressed her struggle during pregnancy and being a mother. She said: “When I first met my now-husband my friends were really happy because I was so happy,” she said.
“But my British friends said to me, ‘I’m sure he’s great but you shouldn’t do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life’.” Meghan also told the programme that it was a “struggle” being pregnant and a new mother amid the intense interest from newspapers.
EXISTING
Asked how she was coping with the media scrutiny, Ms Markle said, ‘We are taking it one day at a time,’ before admitting that the couple are currently ‘existing, not living.’
Meghan has come under criticism for flying a private jet to the U.S, whilst advocating for the environment to preserved, leading to cries of hypocrisy from critics who have described the two polarising positions as contradictory. She has also been criticised for mixing royalty with her former celebrity status of Hollywood after she splashed £150,000 on a baby shower in the U.S and flew back to the U.K with celebrities on board her private jet.
PROTOCOLS
Other criticisms include her alleged breach of royal protocols , conspicuous among them being a reported secrecy surrounding the birth of her son, Archie. The Dutchess Of York reportedly delayed announcing the birth of her son in the Uk in order to allow time for the American press to report the news in the morning since they are hours behind the Uk.
Critics also slammed her break of convention in refusing to follow tradition and allow photographers take a picture of her new born baby at the traditional royal steps of hospital.
Some royal insiders told The Eye of Media.Com that the allegations surrounding a schematic decision to misinform the British press about the timing of her son’s birth were categorically untrue, but would not be drawn into any other clarification in relation to criticism levied against the Dutchess Of Sussex.
The documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, which aired on ITV on Sunday evening, is the first time the Dutch and Dutchess Of York have spoken candidly about their feelings towards the press, and aspects of their private life.