Prince Harry has made himself a “target for life” after “airing his dirty linen” once again following his latest bombshell interview.
Sitting down with ITV in a new documentary, Tabloids on Trial, the Duke of Sussex claimed his legal battles with the media were a ‘central piece’ to his rift with the Royal Family.
In the latest in bombshell revelations, the prince also claimed it is “still dangerous” for wife Meghan Markle to return to the UK.
The duke claimed: “All it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read. Whether it’s a knife or acid, these are things that are of genuine concern for me. It’s one of the reasons why I won’t bring my wife back to this country.”
Prince Harry sat down with ITV for a new documentary about his battle with the tabloid media
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Reacting to the interview, former BBC Correspondent Michael Cole criticised Harry for “taking a swipe at his older brother” Prince William, and his arguments for not wanting to bring Meghan Markle to the UK ever again.
Cole told GB News: “Saying that he feared for the safety of his wife if she came to this country… they live in California. I’m not sure what the murder rate is there, but that’s a more dangerous place than Britain is, any time of the day.”
Noting the royal’s memoir, Spare, alongside his safety fears for Meghan, Cole highlighted that claims he’d made in his book about “killing 25 Taliban” resulted in Harry “painted a target for life on the back of himself and his family”.
He explained: “He compromised his own safety when he said in his book Spare that he’d personally killed 25 Taliban when he was serving with the British Army in Afghanistan.
Prince Harry told ITV that his win against the tabloids in court was a ‘monumental victory’
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“It was a very unwise thing for him to do.”
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Prince Harry also told ITV of his relationship with the late Queen Elizabeth II, and claimed they had “many conversations” about his legal battles with the media, affirming that she “very much supported him” and would want him to “see this through to the end”.
Reacting to Harry’s remarks about the Queen, Cole fumed at the royal for “invoking her name”, and admitted it had “struck” him.
Cole said: “He invoked the name of the late Queen, saying that he had several conversations with his grandmother, and she’d been very supportive in his battle.
“He sees himself, and it’s the word he’s used ,as a dragon slayer against the tabloid press, and he’s continuing with that.”
Michael Cole said Prince Harry sees himself as a ‘dragon slayer’ of the tabloid press
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Sharing his own legal battle with the tabloids, Cole said he believed for his case it was “the right thing to settle”, after having his phone hacked during his time as a journalist.
Cole told GB News: “I received an apology from News Group – I believe in a free and unfettered press. Newspapers are having a bad time at the moment. Losing circulation, losing advertising, young people don’t read them.
“And so I felt that the right thing to do was to settle. I didn’t want to take punitive action against newspapers who are an important part of our country.”
Offering his verdict on the documentary, Cole concluded that it was an “interesting” watch, but claimed it “didn’t tell me as much as it could have done”.
He added: “An interesting documentary, but I think people or families even, will not welcome the fact that it’s more dirty linen being aired in public.”