Prince Harry blames press for losing Chelsy Davy’s love: ‘Prying eyes’
nypost.comdated on and off until mid-2010. “Our relationship was long distance for the majority of the time we were together, with Chelsy and I often living in different countries, so we relied on communicating by phone a lot,” Harry said in a written statement obtained by the New York Times.He continued: “We, naturally, spoke about all types of personal matters, including all aspects of our relationship and this was often through voicemail.
As my girlfriend, I trusted Chelsy with the most private of information and vice versa.”The Post has contacted reps for Harry for comment.
The red-headed royal is suing Mirror Group Newspapers Unlimited for allegedly hacking his phone and using “illegal interception of voicemail messages” to obtain information for its news stories for more than a decade, starting in the 1990s.Harry claims that the former couple’s phone conversations were not attributed to any sources.“So how could the Defendant’s journalists know about this?” he asked in his statement.One story involved Davy giving him “a tongue-lashing down the phone” for flirting with another woman at a party, while another was “an emotional phone call” about a trial separation.He said vacation details also leaked, prompting journalists and photographers to arrive at their hotel off the coast of Mozambique before they did.He also admitted these revelations resulted in the former couple shrinking their circle of trustworthy friends.“Every time these kinds of stories were published, there was a strain put on our relationship, we started to distrust everyone around us,” he wrote.
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