Prince Harry Is Being Accused of Destroying Evidence in His Tabloid Lawsuit

Prince Harry is still embroiled in a legal battle against the publishers of The Sun. Today, Entertainment Tonight reports that the duke is coming under fire for reportedly destroying correspondence between himself and his ghostwriter. The tabloid’s legal team is accusing Harry of “deliberately” deleting potential evidence in his lawsuit. The Associated Press explained that attorney Anthony Hudson claimed that after News Group Newspapers, which publishes The Sun, was collecting Harry’s emails, text messages, and WhatsApp messages with writer J. R. Moehringer (who helped Harry with his memoir, Spare), they didn’t have access to everything they were promised.

While NGN’s legal team was in the process of gathering all of the information, Harry’s attorney stated that all communication was done through an app called Signal and that the “chat history was removed before the memoir was published to delete sensitive information.” The reason for the ephemeral nature of their correspondence was to keep Harry secure, his team claimed, and that if the information had been leaked, it would have compromised his safety.

“NGN’s tactical and sluggish approach to disclosure wholly undermines the deliberately sensational assertion that the claimant (Harry) has not properly carried out the disclosure exercise,” Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, said in court documents, according to the AP. “This is untrue. In fact, the claimant has already made clear that he has conducted extensive searches, going above and beyond his obligations.”