Prince Harry told relationship with Chelsy Davy was ‘doomed’ regardless of media stories - ‘Maybe you were a rubbish boyfriend!’

In his court case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) the Duke accused them of blagging the couple’s flight details and hotel bookings and/or intercepting their voicemails after journalists turned up while they holidayed on a small island off Mozambique.

He said the press look to ruin every relationship he has ever been in to sell more newspapers, stating he and former girlfriend Chelsy Davy were “never on our own”.

Harry’s assertions have been mocked by GB News presenter Bev Turner, who suggested the Duke was a “rubbish boyfriend”.

She said: “Hang on a minute harry. That’s sad that you felt like that but you got to live the life of the most extraordinary luxury and privilege, and it just comes with the territory.

“He said he had a ‘secret meeting’ with Chelsy where he ‘begged her for a second chance’, and ‘these kinds of articles made me feel that our relationship were always set to be doomed’.

“Well, maybe it was. Maybe it wasn’t the fault of the articles, maybe you were a rubbish boyfriend.”

The duke, in his witness statement as part of his individual case against MGN over alleged unlawful information gathering, said: “I always felt as if the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers.

“Whenever I got into a relationship, they were very keen to report the details but would then, very quickly, seek to try and break it up by putting as much strain on it and creating as much distrust as humanly possible… This twisted objective is still pursued to this day even though I’m now married.”

The duke added: “At no point did I have a girlfriend or a relationship with anyone without the tabloids getting involved and ultimately trying to ruin it using whatever unlawful means at their disposal.”

He said nowhere was “off limits” for the defendant’s newspapers.

Harry alleged how every time he was in a relationship or a rumoured relationship the “whole person’s family, and often their friends, would be dragged into the chaos and find themselves the subject of unlawful activity on the part of MGN”.

He added: “That’s horrible for anyone.”

The duke is suing MGN for damages, claiming journalists at its titles, which also include the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception, and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.

MGN is contesting the claims and has either denied or not admitted each of them.