The one who got away?
Prince Harry is blaming “the prying eyes of the tabloids” for the top of his Chelsy Davy romance greater than a decade ago.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex called the UK papers “the essential factor” in his split from the Zimbabwe-born businesswoman, in line with written testimony filed Tuesday to the High Court in London.
The couple met in early 2004, in line with Harry, and dated on and off until mid-2010.
“Our relationship was long distance for nearly all of the time we were together, with Chelsy and I often living in numerous countries, so we relied on communicating by phone lots,” Harry said in a written statement obtained by the Latest York Times.
He continued: “We, naturally, spoke about all sorts of non-public matters, including all points of our relationship and this was often through voicemail. As my girlfriend, I trusted Chelsy with probably the most private of knowledge 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 acquire information for its news stories for greater than a decade, starting within the Nineties.
Harry claims that the previous couple’s phone conversations weren’t attributed to any sources.
“So how could the Defendant’s journalists learn about this?” he asked in his statement.
One story involved Davy giving him “a tongue-lashing down the phone” for flirting with one other woman at a celebration, while one other was “an emotional phone call” a few trial separation.
He said vacation details also leaked, prompting journalists and photographers to reach at their hotel off the coast of Mozambique before they did.
He also admitted these revelations resulted in the previous couple shrinking their circle of trustworthy friends.
“Each time these sorts of stories were published, there was a strain placed on our relationship, we began to distrust everyone around us,” he wrote.
But one among the publisher’s lawyers, Andrew Green, argued in court that “there was no need for the Every day Mirror journalists to make use of illegal means” because other outlets had published details about Harry.
For his part, Harry married former “Suits” actress Meghan Markle, 41, in 2018. They left the royal family in January 2020 and now live in California with their two kids: Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2.
Davy, 37, and hotelier Sam Cutmore-Scott welcomed their son, Leo, in early 2022. They married later that yr.
