Interesting they talk about the press having a narrative for Harry as the party Prince so they'd photograph him out once and then run the photos a few more times of the same night weeks apart so people would think he was constantly at clubs. One of the reporters says William was getting drunk a lot himself but the papers didn't report it since it didn't fit with his image as the "good" Prince
One of the press wrote a bad story about Harry that then Charles' new press secretary wrote a letter to her paper condemning, she claims that it would have been next days chip paper if he hadn't but it wound up making headlines in every country because of it.
I had never heard of the High Court case about Charles' travel diary from the handover of Hong Kong. What he said about China is especially interesting given the recent controversies about China taking such umbridge to criticisms of their regime. I'm probably too young to remember, does anyone know how big a story his leaked travel diary was? Apparently there were several other diaries and they were all sent to friends (50-75 people at a time), I've never heard of anyone keeping travel diaries and sending copies to friends, politicans, opinion formers etc!
The Court found in favour of the Prince but the Mail on Sunday called his former spin dr as a witness and got on record lots of stuff like at the previous State visit by China Charles had wanted his views about the Chinese to be made public and briefed his spin dr and friends to make his views known to the press. I think thats why the Mail won't settle the Prince Harry case even if they think they'll lose because they'll get so much gossip by calling witnesses.
Didn't realise it was Williams tip off to the MET that ended up starting the phone hacking inquiry at 26:52 from a tip off by the correspondent behind the H&M Africa documentary
Ugh, photographers at Heathrow shouted 'slag', '
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The Queen's solicitors sent letters about the Harry Las Vegas nude photos to the British press that they shouldn't publish because of privacy. The Sun waited over 24 hours to publish but did so because they were widely available online
The ITN correspondent says about William and Kate when they were in Australia that they're the first people hes covered that won't talk to him at all, their staff will tell the press where to go but nothing more.
The Australian journalist they interview describes him as a controlling character and not the easy going person that people think he is.
They have lovely long lens photos of William and Kate that were run in Australia but not in the UK because of different privacy laws of them on a day off, things like Kate playing row row row your boat with George (50:32). They were never published in the UK because they assumed since they weren't authorised they weren't allowed but the programme makers contacted the palace and said that permission wouldn't have been needed (the answer might have been different if the pictures weren't so sweet)
They talk about that the Australian and US press think that the British press are far too deferential to the Royals and should be running everything.
? I think I'm going to buy this book, I'm very intrigued and excited to learn about all the behind the scenes info and duties of such a position.
