Prince William and Kate Middleton ‘Embarrassed’ Over Having Their Phones Hacked by News of the World

Prince William and Kate Middleton ‘Embarrassed’ Over Having Their Phones Hacked by News of the World
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, walk along the poppy flower-lined Wall of Remembrance during their visit at the Australian National War Memorial on Anzac Day in Canberra, Australia, Friday, April 25, 2014. Australia and New Zealand on Friday marked the 99th anniversary of the first major military action involving Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC is an acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. AP Photo/Gary Ramage, Pool
Kristina Skorbach
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The royals are said to be “embarrassed” about the revelations of their phones being hacked as part of the scandal of 2005 and 2006 by the U.K. newspaper News of the World. 

The former editor at the paper, Clive Goodman, is said to have been listening to the conversations of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, and even though the police had known all along, they decided to “ringfence” the issue and avoid a public trial, reported the Guardian.

Goodman was convicted of hacking the phone lines of three royal aides in 2006, but the news of Prince William and Prince Harry only surfaced this week during the trial. Goodman said the royals were embarrassed to learn the news. 

He is said to have hacked Kate Middleton’s line 155 times, Prince William’s 35 times, and Prince Harry’s nine times. 

Lead prosecutor, Andrew Edis QC, accused Goodman of revealing the three additional names only after he was told that he won’t face further prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), but Goodman rebutted the claims saying that he did not remember hacking Duke of Cambridge’s line. 

Goodman said he was ill at the time. “I was under a lot of pressure, and I didn’t know what the purpose of the questioning was,” he told the publication

Kristina Skorbach
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Kristina Skorbach is a Canadian correspondent based in New York City covering entertainment news.
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