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当地时间6月6日，哈里王子在伦敦高等法院出庭。他也成为130年来首位在法庭上作证的英国王室高级成员。
哈里王子是此次起诉镜报集团的知名人士之一。镜报集团是《每日镜报》《星期日镜报》和《星期天人民报》的出版商，这些报纸被指控在1991年至2011年间有电话窃听和其他非法行为。
5月，有关上述案件的诉讼首次开庭，哈里王子的律师指控镜报集团大规模非法收集信息，但哈里王子当时并没有出庭。
哈里王子是英国王室的第五顺位继承人，他在6月6日出庭使这起窃听案备受关注。在出庭作证时发布的证人证词中，哈里王子说，自己十几岁时就登上头条新闻，使自己陷入了“恶性循环”。他指责报纸将王室成员塑造成预设角色，并创造了一个“另类和扭曲的我”。
“然后他们开始让你扮演最适合他们的一个或多个角色，并尽可能多地销售报纸。比如花花公子王子、失败者、辍学者之类的。”哈里王子还称自己的语音信箱曾被黑客攻击，这让他觉得“无法信任任何人”。
哈里王子的言行被当地媒体高度关注。在过去一段时间，他卷入了与英国媒体的几场法律战，包括针对默多克旗下英国报纸机构的电话窃听案等。
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Prince Harry became the first senior British royal to give evidence on a witness stand in 132 years, as his bitter fight against the UK’s tabloid press came to a head in tense courtroom showdown on Tuesday.
Harry answered questions in a measured, almost hushed tone. He appeared nervous at first, and was at one point asked to raise his voice. But the Duke of Sussex brought to court an overriding argument that he has previously made on television programs and in podcast interviews: that the media’s intrusion and tactics caused him significant distress and wrecked some of his closest relationships.
The duke is suing a big British newspaper group, Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), alleging the publisher’s journalists hacked his phone and used other illicit means to gather information about his life between 1996 and 2009.
He faced forensic and detailed questioning from MGN’s lawyer, Andrew Green, who probed him on the specifics of his claims and occasionally left him scrambling to recall sections of his written statement or find pieces of evidence.
But after a nervous start that exposed gaps in Harry’s knowledge regarding the minutiae of the case, the prince increasingly asserted himself – clashing at times with the publisher’s lawyer as they dissected reams of press coverage about his childhood, his school years and his relationships.
“Some editors and journalists do have blood on their hands” for the distress caused to him, Harry told the court at one point – and “perhaps, inadvertently death,” he added, in reference to his mother Princess Diana.
The sight of a senior royal subjected to a tiring, meticulous interrogation was exceedingly rare. It last happened in 1891, when a game of baccarat went awry and landed Harry’s great great great grandfather, the future King Edward VII, on the stand.
But Tuesday’s appearance was another unprecedented reminder that Harry is forging his own path away from his relatives – and attempting to settle scores from his tumultuous royal life.
Here’s what we learned as Harry began giving evidence on Tuesday.
Harry’s ‘distress’ at hands of press
Tuesday’s courtroom session touched on dozens of snippets from Harry’s youth, repeated aloud in court as the prince and MGN’s lawyer parsed over the fine details of several news articles.
Harry’s diagnosis with the “kissing disease,” also known as mono; his teenage trips to the pub; his broken thumb and a back injury sustained in a game of polo; his gap year afternoons on the beach; and Princess Diana’s trips to collect him from school – all were all the subject of stories entered into evidence, and each was dissected by Green and the duke.
Overall, the prince alleges that about 140 articles published in titles belonging to Mirror Group contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of those articles have been selected to be considered at the trial.
In the courtroom on Tuesday, Harry said that “every single article has caused me distress.”
“All of these articles played an important role – a destructive role – in my growing up,” Harry said. The newspapers in question were on constantly display “in every single palace, unfortunately,” while he was growing up. At school, fellow students and others would read the articles, he said. Harry described the level of coverage as “incredibly invasive.”
Green began by attempting to establish whether Harry remembered reading the articles in question at the time of publication. When the duke conceded he could not always recall, Green pressed him on how he could realistically argue they could have affected him so strongly. It was a theme to which Green would often return.
More detail in Harry’s witness statement
In a written statement entered into the court record on Tuesday, Harry expressed concern that his conversations with family and friends may have been intercepted. He noted that he and his brother, Prince William, “naturally discussed personal aspects of our lives as we trusted each other with the private information we shared.”
He said private information about his life was raised on voicemails left on the phones of his father Charles and his mother Diana.
Harry said that he would discuss “private and sensitive matters regarding our family and personal lives” on voicemails left on the phone of the then Kate Middleton, now the Princess of Wales, he said. The Duke listed a number of other friends with whom he had been in contact, including the late TV presenter Caroline Flack, in his witness statement.
He said he recalled “unusual mobile activity” relating to his voicemails that he dismissed at the time, but now alleges was caused by phone hacking.
“I remember on multiple occasions hearing a voicemail for the first time that wasn’t ‘new’,” he wrote. “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).”
Duke claims papers would try to wreck his relationships
Also in his written statement, Harry argued that the press actively tried to ruin his 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,” Harry wrote.
“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,” he added.
Harry claimed that papers would go about that task by putting “strain” on his relationships and creating distrust between him and his partners. He spoke regularly about one of his former girlfriends, Chelsy Davy, alleging journalists would find out about flight details to photograph her at airports, and would book rooms in the same hotels as the couple when they were on vacation.
The duke evidently believes that continues to be the case since his marriage to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. “This twisted objective is still pursued to this day even though I’m now married,” he wrote.
Harry accused of ‘total speculation’
The atmosphere in court was occasionally tense. “Are we not, Prince Harry, in the realms of total speculation,” Green asked Harry at one point on Tuesday, after an exchange over a story about the teen prince breaking his thumb. Green had quizzed the duke about which specific illicit means of newsgathering Harry was alleging.
“I’m not the one who wrote the article,” Harry replied.
“No, but you’re the one who’s bringing the claim,” Green said.
Earlier in the morning, when discussing Harry’s use of a landline phone to talk to his mother from school, Harry suggested that either that phone or Diana’s could have been hacked.
“That’s just speculation you’ve come up with now,” Green said in response.
The exchanges between Harry and Green ultimately settled into a predictable pattern; when a new article was brought up, Green would press Harry on how he could know that the information was obtained illegally, and not through typical means.
Harry would often respond that he couldn’t fathom how information would have made its way into newspapers without illicit involvement. And he would repeatedly assert that the journalists who wrote the stories, not the subject of the stories, should answer questions about their sourcing.
An awkward appearance from a media-trained prince
There were times during the back-and-forth between Harry and Green when the prince appeared uncomfortable or unaware of the minutiae of his case.
Harry at one point joked that he was being put through a “workout” by having to repeatedly reach for bundles of evidence, stacked in folders beside him.
Green offered to arrange for someone to help the prince navigate the evidence, and Harry would often reply “if you say so,” when Green sought to establish details of the articles the prince’s team entered into evidence.
After a brief mid-morning recess, the judge asked Harry to raise his voice to ensure he could be heard throughout the courtroom, telling the duke that a number of observers in the courtroom had struggled to hear him.
The questioning was far more intense and detailed than anything Harry has experienced in the many television and podcast interviews he has given on the topic of press intrusion.
And Green sought to poke a number of holes in Harry’s argument, including that Harry was initially unaware of several specific stories, or that details in those stories could not have come through phone hacking as they had already been reported by other outlets.
What else did Harry say?
In a lengthy witness statement and over the course of an hours-long testimony, the Duke of Sussex touched on a number of topics. They included:
The British government: Harry criticized the current Conservative government in his written testimony, in particular for what he described as an overly close relationship with the media.
“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,” Harry wrote.
He added that Rishi Sunak’s government “clearly have no appetite” for press regulation, “because their friends in the press said so.”
Piers Morgan: The British broadcaster was the editor of The Mirror from 1995 to 2004, and has been intensely critical of the duke and his wife, Meghan, in recent years. “The thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother’s private and sensitive messages… makes me feel physically sick,” Harry wrote in his evidence.
He claimed that, in response to his lawsuit, “myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan,” suggesting that Morgan has taken the stance “in the hope that I will back down.”
Morgan has been unapologetic about his criticism of the pair, calling them “repulsive narcissistic hypocrites” in one December tweet.
The Queen’s concerns: Harry said he had recently learned that Queen Elizabeth II had a member of her staff secretly fly to Australia in 2003, and stay in a house down the road from where Harry was staying on his gap year.
“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,” Harry wrote.
At the time Harry had been photographed on the beach with friends – photos that Harry claims must have been obtained illicitly, because he did not understand how any journalists would know he was there.
当地时间6月6日，哈里王子在伦敦高等法院出庭，起诉英国镜报集团，这成为130年来首个出庭作证的英国王室高级成员。
伦敦高等法院第15号法庭证人席上，哈里轻声回答、语气严肃。他控诉英国小报“插足”自己人生的每一段关系。哈里表示，无孔不入的偷窥、煽动和造谣，几乎毁掉他的私人生活。他的发言也透露出了许多不为人知的王室秘辛：他的奶奶、已故的英国女王伊丽莎白二世曾派人暗中跟踪自己，甚至在他住所附近租房。同时，哈里也坦率回应了自己的“身世”之谜：他究竟是查尔斯的儿子还是母亲戴安娜和情人的私生子。
5小时漫长盘问，律师要求他提高音量
哈里起诉《每日镜报》、《星期日镜报》和《星期日人物》等报纸记者，在1991年至2011年间有电话窃听和欺骗获得信息等其他非法行为。他抨击英国媒体和政府互相勾结，损害国家声誉。
《每日邮报》称，哈里王子当天接受了几乎5个小时的漫长盘问，甚至有时是激烈的质疑，被指控的镜报集团代理律师安德鲁·格林都开玩笑说，他希望王子“不要发火”。
不过报道称，哈里始终保持冷静。据天空新闻报道，法庭上气氛紧张，哈里的回答简短、准确但很有礼貌，语气很严肃。
报道指出，哈里的声音比他过去在电视采访中的声音小很多，以至于他的律师大卫·舍伯恩要求他提高声音，同时还给他调整了麦克风的音量。
曾被女王派人跟踪保安全，回应私生子身世谣言
据报道，哈里指责了关于媒体对他身世的报道。1993年，在BBC节目中，戴安娜王妃承认在与查尔斯婚姻破裂后，自己在婚内出轨了一位红发的马术教练詹姆斯·休伊特。有媒体八卦称哈里的亲生父亲是詹姆斯·休伊特。
“许多报纸报道了一个谣言，说我的亲生父亲是詹姆斯·休伊特，实际上我母亲是在我出生后才与他有过一段关系。”哈里解释道。
2003年，媒体还曾报道过“海滩流浪汉哈里”的故事，哈里解释说，这是关于他去澳大利亚努萨的一次旅行，他更是透露：“我最近才知道，女王让她的一位助理私人秘书飞到努萨，在我不知情的情况下，在我住的地方沿路租了一栋房子。”哈里还说，“她担心我的旅行安全，并希望有我认识的人在附近，随时为我提供支持。”
“向女友保证我没看脱衣舞”
哈里表示，狗仔队和小报记者对私人生活的骚扰导致他的人际关系产生严重问题，“我真诚地感觉到，在我所拥有的每一段关系中，无论是与朋友、女友、家人还是军队，总会有第三方参与其中，那就是这些英国小报。”
哈里在法庭上提到，一家媒体《人物》2006年发表了一篇题为“切尔西震惊了”的文章，这篇文章报道说，哈里去了一家脱衣舞俱乐部，他当时的女友切尔西·戴维“发疯了”，并气得摔断了电话。
然而，哈里在他的证人陈述中说：“我认为切尔西并没有因为我去那里而生气。我们确实在电话里谈到了这件事，但我向她保证我没有看脱衣舞。”
在陈述中，哈利表示，他变得很难相信别人，他对周围的每个人都感到“持续怀疑”，朋友和前女朋友都成了“受害者”。
哈里表示，由于他经常对女朋友发怒，不止一个他的前女朋友称，父母警告她和哈里在一起“不值得”。
被送外号“花花公子”“备胎”，和狗仔发生冲突
哈里还指责称，英国小报煽动对他的仇恨，硬生生将他送上王室的头条新闻。他被小报安上各类带有侮辱性的外号：“备胎”“花花公子王子”“失败者”“辍学者”“不负责任的吸毒者”“未成年饮酒者”......除了他以外，其他王室成员也被小报安上了外号，比如哥哥威廉王子是“继承人”。
哈里表示，正是英国小报对他的攻击，让他产生了“破罐破摔”的心理。他感觉既然这些媒体强加给他这些“刻板印象”，那他还不如真的“犯罪”。
2004年，哈里被指控在一家夜总会外和一名摄影师发生纠纷，被传得沸沸扬扬。
哈里解释这起事件时称，“我刚满20岁，和大多数20岁的人一样，我想出去玩。然而，我走到哪里，狗仔队就出现在哪里。”
他继续说：“当我走到车边时，我能听到相机的快门声，当我打开车门时，一个摄像头正对着我的鼻子，我转过身，抓起离我最近的相机，把它向后扔去。”
后来哈里被带回克拉伦斯宫，然后去看了医生。“家里的每个人，包括我父亲，都对我的处境表示同情，我从来没有喘息的机会，媒体从来没有允许我与朋友外出时不受骚扰。”
哈里控诉称：“这是一个恶性循环，他们的这种行为部分是完全卑鄙的。”
在哈里王子出庭作证的同时，肯辛顿宫发表了一份关于威尔士王妃出席王室活动的声明，表明王室工作人员一切如常。
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