It looks like Harry is going to dredge up everything that ever bothered him in his life, including situations that he brought about himself. While I do agree with Harry that "in the public interest" and "what interests the public" can be polar opposites, he can't blame the press for covering stories that the royals themselves created. Just because a story is embarrassing doesn't make it untrue. The late queen's approach of "Don't Complain, Don't Explain" worked for her because she led a blameless life.

If Diana hadn't had multiple affairs and hadn't publicly admitted her affair with Hewitt, there would have been no speculation about Harry's parentage. That story should have been nipped in the bud, but on that point Diana chose to remain quiet. Was she using the speculation to hurt Charles? This should have been denied vigorously, and shame on the media for continuing to repeat it.

Harry regularly made a spectacle of himself in nightclubs and who knows what he said to what person when he was drunk. There were multiple ways for salacious stories to make it into the press, including phone hacking and paying staff/friends for tidbits. How to trace back which stories came from which sources in nigh impossible now. One source of leaks to the media would be the staff who were insulted/berated/mistreated by the Prince of Petulance and who sold tales to the tabloids. Another situation where Harry can blame himself for acting like a fool and giving the media something to write about. Harry went to a strip club? How hard was it to figure out that his girlfriend wouldn't be happy about it and would let him know via phone call? The princes were going to meet with Paul Burrell privately over his violating their late mother's privacy. What genius needs to have it pointed out that the source of the leak was more than likely Burrell himself?

From what I have read thus far, Harry has not really proven anything against the media. They are gossip mongers and when given a negative story and they'll run with it, we already knew that and it's obnoxious but not illegal. So far it looks like the tabloids printed a lot of speculation and much of it stuck. There have been instances of the media hacking phones and using unscrupulous methods to find or confirm a story, but not every story that they published can be attributed to underhanded information gathering. If Harry wants a victory in court, he'll need incontrovertible evidence. Continued whining about his feelings won't cut it.

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