.We know from history that the Royals are not immune to any kind of embarrassing scandal — Princes William and Harry’s dad and mum, Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, were embroiled in scandal years ago when their phone calls were secretly taped and released. On them: shocking, icky conversations with the people they were cheating with!
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Now, decades later, Prince William and Harry are at the center of another scandal — of the hacking kind. The two princes — along with some 90 other celebs, sports figures, politicians and VIPS, including Harry Potter himself — have been named as victims in the NOTW hacking/covert investigation.
Derek Webb, a former police officer once employed by the News Corp-owned News of the World (a Rupert Murdoch production) to dig up information, has revealed a list of 90 prominent Brits he was asked to spy on, according to the BBC.
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Along with William and Harry, Webb said in an interview he was hired to trail Harry’s former girlfriend Chelsy Davy, the family of Daniel Radcliffe, soccer player Gary Lineker and former Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith.
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Webb insists that he never hacked a phone.
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“I didn’t know anything in relation to hacking,” he told BBC’s “Newsnight” program. “I realised that hacking was now a big business in relation to what was going on back [then] but I never knew about it at the time. I had no knowledge of it.”
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Rupert Murdoch’s son, News International chairman James Murdoch, is set to speak with parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee about the hacking scandal, which also allegedly involved bribes being paid to Scotland Yard officials. Seventeen people have been arrested in the course of the investigation and authorities have said that News of the World targeted roughly 5,800 people!
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“While surveillance is not illegal, it was clearly deeply inappropriate in these circumstances,” New International said in a statement. “This action is not condoned by any current executive at the company.”
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