News | UK Two of King Charles ’s closest aides are under pressure to hand over private documents for Prince Harry ’s legal battle against The Sun newspaper , the High Court has heard. The Duke of Sussex is suing the tabloid’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), over alleged unlawful information gathering, with a blockbuster trial set for January next year. On Thursday, it was revealed Sir Clive Alderton, the King’s Private Secretary, and Royal treasurer Sir Michael Stevens could now be dragged into the legal war.
NGN has made a request for disclosure of documents from the senior Royal aides which may be relevant to the civil claim, and it is asking Prince Harry to help obtain the material. But the Duke is resisting the newspaper publisher’s efforts, branding it a “classic fishing exercise” and insisting he has already gone to great lengths to comply with disclosure obligations in High Court cases. Harry claims he was the target of unlawful information gathering for several years by The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World newspaper.
The Duke himself is also under pressure to carry out new searches of email accounts, computers, WhatsApp messages, social media accounts, and storage devices ahead of next year’s trial. In preparation for the case, Harry says he has already scoured his home in California for physical documents and carried out a digital search of his former Royal email account. He says he has confirmed that old laptops and phones, as well a.