6 Things We Learned About Royal Family in Prince Harry Trial: Ruined Romances, Diana's Paranoia, Spying Queen and More

This week Prince Harry undertook a historical task: He is the first Royal in over 140 years to testify in court. During his day-and-a-half testimony and written 55-page witness statement, the Duke of Sussex detailed his case against The Mirror Group, who he claims unlawfully obtained information about his life and used it to fuel 144 stories in various publications. During his testimony, several surprising things came to light about Harry and the Royal Family. 

"As a child, every single one of these articles played an important and destructive role in my growing up," Harry said. "There's more than thousands, perhaps millions of articles that have been written about me since age 12."

From a 1996 article centered around his feeling about his parent's divorce, "littered" with elements of private information, to a 2002 article about his use of drugs, which had a "huge impact" on him and left him fearing expulsion from Eton. "Eton had a zero drugs policy in place, and I was extremely worried I was going to be expelled," he said. 

According to Harry, the press destroyed romantic relationships with Chelsy Davy and Caroline Flack. "In time we realised it just wasn't worth the grief and harassment. Especially for her family. Goodbye, we said. 'Goodbye and good luck,'" he wrote in his memoir Spare about how the press impacted the brief romance. A lot of his testimony focused on his more serious relationship with Davy.

"Whenever I have been in a relationship, I have always tried to be the best partner that I possibly could but every woman has her limit. "Unfortunately, they are not just in a relationship with me but with the entire tabloid press as the third party," he wrote in his statement. "At no point did I have a girlfriend or a relationship with anyone without the tabloids getting involved and ultimately trying to ruin it using whatever unlawful means at their disposal." Eventually, he said due to the negative tabloid press she decided that "royal life was not for her."

One of the articles published about Harry and Chelsy was focused on a scenario that went down in 2006. According to the article, his girlfriend at the time was upset that Harry visited the Spearmint Rhino strip club near Slough. Harry maintains that the media group got the information from his private emails. "I don't see any quotes from the Lithuanian lap dancer who sat on my lap," he told the court.

When these articles were published, Harry had yet to suspect the media was hacking into his private emails and phone calls. So, he was led to suspect that close friends were responsible for leaking information to the press. He writes that he was "highly suspicious and convinced someone had leaked the information to the press," in his statement.

"Unfortunately a number of those people are no longer friends, due to my paranoia at the time. The more this happens over time, the less you share with people," Harry said in court on Tuesday.

According to Harry's lawyer, Piers Morgan was behind the hacking of Princess Diana's phone and then targeted Harry the same way. Harry maintains that initially he thought his mom was paranoid, but realized she was just "fearful of what was actually happening to her," he said.

"I've always heard people refer to my mother as paranoid, but she wasn't. She was fearful of what was actually happening to her and now I know that I was the same.

After negative stories about Harry's gap year in Australia were published, the Queen secretly sent someone to Noosa, just in case he needed help. "I only learnt recently that the Queen had asked one of her assistant private secretaries to fly out to Noosa and take a house down the road from where I was staying, without me knowing," Harry wrote. "She was concerned about the extent of the coverage of my trip and wanted someone I knew to be nearby, in case I needed support."