Queen Elizabeth II was so concerned about media coverage of Prince Harry's Australian 'gap year' she secretly sent a royal staffer to stay down the road from him, the Duke of Sussex has claimed. 9News
to accuse Mirror Group Newspapers of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping, described his "situation" Down Under as "awful" and accused the group of paying to have him watched in the Hunter Valley.Prince Harry photographed during his official gap year photo call at the Tooloombilla Property in Queensland in September 2003.
Harry claimed MGN was using "unlawful techniques" to snoop on him, referencing two payments — one of £100 referencing a new hairstyle and the other of £450 titled "Prince Harry watch Hunter Valley " — he said were made by the publisher about that time. The duke also questioned how the paper was able to report that he was inside "watching videos", given the purpose of staying inside was to avoid the "suffocating" surveillance from camera crews outside.
His "guess" was that £100 paid to a freelance journalist for the article "was for unlawfully obtained private information about me". "I remember this day so clearly, we were staying in a house and, after visiting Steve Irwin's crocodile zoo in the morning, we had gone out on to the beach in front of the house in the afternoon," he wrote.
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