The Duke of Sussex is at the High Court in London today to testify against MGN in a phone hacking case.
A 55-page statement was released on Tuesday as he began giving evidence. In the statement, Harry refers to his father as his Royal Highness King Charles III. However, the correct title would be His Majesty King Charles III. As a member of the royal family, it's a surprising error for the Duke of Sussex to make. It was such an insult when he purposely forgot his father became the king.
In addition, his repeated use of the word "institution" in place of "my family" or "our security office" or the like is very deliberate. He's purposely using that word to imply that the family and necessary security operations are just some cold, lifeless entity steamrolling over him and his feelings. ITV's Royal editor Chris Ship tweeted about Harry's mistake, writing, "Minor in the scheme of things but odd no one proofreading the witness statement picked up that."
Hashtag Prince Harry referred to his father as his "raw highness King Charles" rather than "his majesty King Charles."
Beyond this, the Duke of Sussex referred to his late mother as Princess Diana, which was technically correct, as a much more colloquial take on her official title, Diana the Princess of Wales.
Meanwhile, at yesterday's court case, Harry's rumored father was also dragged into his lawsuit. Prince Harry launched an extraordinary attack on the government, branding it rock bottom, and addressed rumors that Princess Diana's lover James Hewitt was his father as he became the first British royal to testify in an open court since 1891.
Item 72 in his statement, he said rumors that Hewitt was his father came out when he was 18, causing him to fear he was not an actual prince. Then he discovered at age 30 that the affair started two years after his birth. He spent 12 years wondering if it was true.
12 years! I mean, it's not someone in the royal family that he could have checked in with on this. Perhaps have asked a member of the royal household. It seems like a pretty substantial thing for a prince in the UK's succession to try to validate. No. Also, he was 18.
He could have gone to Hewitt. He could have gone to Charles. He could have demanded a DNA test. But the buffoon quietly wrestled with his origin story and did nothing for 12 years. As if, is he trying to say, 'I wanted to stay a prince, so I didn't question my paternity.' For all that time, he didn't really want to know what the truth was. He was afraid that the DNA would show that he's not a prince.
He doesn't actually want to know because if, by some chance, it came out he wasn't Charles's son, then he's not even the spare or the fifth in line of succession. All he cares about is privilege. How much he has in comparison to William and others. How much he's lost, which is William and Charles's fault or the media's, depending on the day. Never his own fault, never Harry's wife's fault.
Many Royal fans think after this trial, maybe King Charles should remove Harry from the line of succession altogether. But I do wonder whether his statement about the issue of Hewitt being his father involves the hacking lawsuit, none of which has to do with the hacking case. Harry's off-topic here."
