Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Harry bringing William and Kate into Daily Mail lawsuit

Prince Harry's legal battle against the Daily Mail continues, and he's dragged William and Kate into the mix.

Harry is one of several public figures - including Sir Elton John, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Elizabeth Hurley - accusing Associated Newspapers Limited of privacy breaches. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady explains the situation further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brady UK correspondents with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, Inda, Heather, I salute that man if he's listening
in Tiata too. If I've pronounced it correctly, I absolutely
take my hat off to him. I wish I didn't
have a mobile phone.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
And you say that, You say that, Inda, and yet
if you didn't have a mobile phone, you would hate it.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's very true.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
But how would you know how fast you're running your miles?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well I've got a little watch for that. But I
just think we have become slaves to these devices and
one company in particular.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good on that man, I say, yeah, not bad. Now
what's hes doant to? Will?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
So this is interesting big hearing at the High Court.
It's the latest round of the allegations but misbehavior by
newspapers into the lives, the private lives of celebrities. So
there's a group taking a case against Associate newspapers which
published the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. Harry
is in this group. So too is the actress Liz Hurley,

(00:59):
Sadie Frost, the actress Elton John and his husband David Furnish.
Lots of very famous people. Now Harry's lawyers have let
it be known that his associates were dragged into this
and that they were spied on too, and the court said,
well who were his associates? And Catherine Middleton was named
now of course, Princess of Wales. A phone conversation on

(01:22):
a mobile that she had was apparently spied on by
a newspaper. And then there was also an allegation around
William's twenty first birthday in the summer of two thousand
and three. The theme was Out of Africa and there
was some phone hacking that allegedly went on around that
event as well. So they can't separate themselves. As much
as these two brothers are not in each other's lives anymore,

(01:46):
Harry has dragged his brother and sister in law into
this case.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Will they be upset about that?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm not sure they will, because I think William was
the first person to kick start legal action against the
newspapers along time time ago now and he was very
successful with this. He suffered a knee injury playing soccer
in central London one night with a very trusted group
of friends and a text message was exchanged about how

(02:13):
his knee was or a voicemail was left and this
was intercepted by a newspaper, and William got suspicious. William's
not stupid. He knew that the guys he was playing
footy with would not in any way tell a newspaper
he'd hurt his knee. That ended up in a newspaper
a few days later, and William launched his legal action.
I don't think he'll be too upset about this.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Interesting now, how much did it cost you guys to
change the flags because the reid was the wrong red?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
This is the American state visit from Trump a couple
of weeks ago. It's all coming out now. The Americans
felt that they should have a brighter red in their
stars and stripes than the red in the Union flag
of the United Kingdom, so they demanded that all the
flags that would be on display be replaced. Cool one

(02:59):
hundreundred one thousand dollars that fabric cost. There you go,
they are now using a bright I hadn't even noticed this,
but apparently it's called cherry red, and that was the
red that the Trump administration wanted in the stars and stripes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now, I can't get to the bottom of whether it's
because the red on the American flags had had some
damage and had faded, or whether it was actually just
printed in the wrong rid do you know.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
We haven't got to the bottom of that either here,
but what happens before state visits is all the officials
from the hosting government have to go and visit the
embassy of the visiting government and display the flags and say, look,
this is what we're going to put up. Are you
guys happy with this? We've got everything the right way around,
and you know, mistakes can happen, and the Americans said no, no, no,

(03:47):
we want a brighter red. It may be that the
fabric had faded since the previous visitor.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ah, Inda, thank you very much. Well, good luck with
the rest of your life. Without your phone in do
it into Brady are UK correspondent. We'll talk to you
on the Len line. I suppose next

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