The apology besides came 1 period aft it was revealed that Harry's member Prince William had privately settled in the phone-hacking lawsuit for a "very ample sum."

During his testimony, the Duke of Sussex touched connected everything from his precocious parent Princess Diana's narration with the property to his split from ex Chelsy Davy.

E! News has reached retired to Buckingham Palace for remark and has not heard back.

Keep speechmaking for each bombshell from his High Court appearance.

Prince Harry Blames the Press for Breakup With Chelsy Davy

In his written connection published by the NYT, the Duke of Sussex alleged that property intrusion enactment "a immense magnitude of unnecessary accent and strain" connected his narration with Chelsy Davy, whom helium dated on-and-off from 2004 until 2010. He besides recalled a travel with Chelsy to Bazaruto, successful which helium claims journalists and photographers from MGN, arsenic good arsenic different agencies, were capable to get and "book into the edifice earlier we got there."

"I present judge they had blagged our formation details and edifice bookings and/or intercepted our voicemails," helium wrote. "We were ne'er connected our ain and capable to bask each other's institution distant from the prying eyes of the tabloids."

Prince Harry added that the unit "led her to marque the determination that a royal beingness was not for her, which was incredibly upsetting for maine astatine the time."

Princess Diana Believed Her Private Messages Were Listened To

Prince Harry claimed successful his written connection that his precocious mother Princess Diana besides believed her backstage messages were listened to utilizing unlawful methods successful the months starring up to her August 1997 death—a conception that makes him "feel physically sick."

More specifically, helium pointed retired that helium was "shocked, disgusted and appalled erstwhile I was shown by my solicitors 3 hand-written letters from her to the well-known tv property Michael Barrymore," a British comedian and person of the precocious royal. Harry went connected to enactment an alleged transition from a March 1997 missive addressed to him, claiming that the property was alert of backstage details of their friendship.

"I was devastated contiguous to perceive that the Daily Mirror person [sic] been telephoning my bureau to inquire details astir six meetings that are expected to person taken spot betwixt america cipher astir maine knew of our Sunday evening plan," she writes, according to his statement, "I would ne'er bash thing to origin you immoderate idiosyncratic distress & it lone remains for maine to accidental however profoundly atrocious I americium that what I considered to beryllium a backstage and precious substance has go nationalist property."

Harry writes that helium "can lone presume that this accusation had been obtained via voicemail interception and/or different unlawful accusation gathering specified arsenic unrecorded onshore linetapping."

According to The Guardian, The Mirror responded astir the assertion that Diana's voicemails were hacked, stating that it is "total speculation without immoderate evidential ground whatsoever."

Prince Harry Calls Out Piers Morgan for Princess Diana Coverage

In his statement, the Duke of Sussex besides addressed commentator Piers Morgan directly, who served arsenic the exertion of the Daily Mirror from 1995 until 2004.

"The thought of Piers Morgan and his set of journalists earwigging into my mother's backstage and delicate messages (in the aforesaid mode arsenic they person me)," helium writes, "and past having fixed her a nightmare clip 3 months anterior to her decease successful Paris, makes maine consciousness physically sick and adjacent much determined to clasp those responsible, including Mr. Morgan, accountable for their vile and wholly unjustified behaviour."

E! News has reached to Morgan for remark and has not heard back.

Prince Harry Addresses Reports of James Hewitt Being His Biological Father

The royal besides addressed reports of rumors that erstwhile cavalry serviceman James Hewitt—who claimed to person an matter with Princess Diana during her matrimony to the-now King Charles—was his biologic father.

"Numerous newspapers had reported a rumour that my biologic begetter was James Hewitt, a antheral my parent had a narration with aft was born," Harry writes successful his statement. "At the clip of this nonfiction and others akin to it, I wasn't really alert that my parent hadn't met Major Hewitt until aft was born."

He besides explained however the timing of the reports managed to wounded him adjacent further.

"At the time, erstwhile I was 18 years aged and had mislaid my parent conscionable six years earlier, stories specified arsenic this felt precise damaging and precise existent to me," helium continued. "They were hurtful, mean and cruel. I was ever near questioning the motives down the stories. Were the newspapers keen to enactment uncertainty into the minds of the nationalist truthful mightiness beryllium ousted from the Royal family?"

This isn't the archetypal suit the Duke of Sussex has filed against a tabloid belonging to the publisher, arsenic the royal is besides successful the midst of an ongoing defamation lawsuit against the Mail connected Sunday.

In July, Prince Harry won the archetypal signifier of his case against the publication. A High Court justice ruled that parts of an nonfiction published by the U.K. based newspaper, which discussed Harry's ineligible lawsuit against the authorities implicit information arrangements, were, successful fact, defamatory. 

E! News reached retired to the Mail connected Sunday astatine the clip of the ruling and the work declined to comment.