Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have issued a legal warning over photographs of the duchess walking her dogs in Canada, British media reported on Tuesday.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have moved to Vancouver Island for a fresh start, with 35-year-old Harry flying out of London to join Meghan and their eight-month-old son Archie.
The pictures were used by The Sun and the Daily Mail newspapers.
Lawyers claimed the images were taken by photographers hiding in bushes and spying on the US former television actress, the BBC said.
The lawyers claim there have been attempts to photograph inside their Vancouver Island home using long lenses and say paparazzi are camped outside the property.
– ‘Powerful force’ –
Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a high-speed car crash in Paris in 1997 as she tried to escape pursuing paparazzi.
He and Meghan, who married in May 2018, admitted last year that they were struggling in the spotlight and have regularly hit out at the press with statements and in the courts.
The press had “vilified her almost daily” with “lie after lie at her expense”, he said, calling it bullying which “destroys lives”.
The Sun’s front page Tuesday showed a smiling Meghan, 38, out walking in the woods.
In its editorial, the tabloid said it was nonsense to suggest the couple had been forced out of the country to avoid media “dark forces”.
“And the reality is they do not want to avoid media. They want to avoid criticism. Indeed they crave media attention if it meekly writes their PR puff pieces.”
(AFP)