The enemy of my enemy is my friend, according to the old adage; and so it stands that someone who you find generally objectionable can also, occasionally, be correct. Many people who would not count themselves fans of Prince Harry would find it hard not to sympathise with his ongoing campaign against more scurrilous elements of the tabloid press. As a new ITV documentary, Tabloids On Trial, suggests, the media’s actions amounted to a horrendous invasion of privacy for Harry and many others in the public eye over a period of years. Yet, as ever, it is considerably harder to sympathise with him than it is the other victims, purely because of the manner in which he conducts himself.
A taste of this comes early on in the documentary, in which the prince pugnaciously declares: ‘This is a David vs Goliath situation…the Davids are the claimants and the Goliaths are this vast media enterprise.’
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