Prince William set to be furious after Harry's private email to him emerges

Prince Harry has risked fresh fury from Prince William after his letter to the Prince of Wales emerged. Prince Harry has had an email sent to his older brother, who is married to Kate Middleton, read out in court as part of a legal wrangle.

Harry has risked widening the rift with Prince William after he previously claimed the Aston Villa FC fan received compensation from a national newspaper. The Duke is demanding to see emails between the publisher of The Sun, and the late Queen's most senior courtiers.

The duke's representative said emails showed the late Queen had personally approved threatening the publisher with legal action if it did not respond. David Sherborne read out a 2017 email from Prince Harry to his brother William and palace aides urging them to chase News UK.

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The email accused the publisher of “playing with us”, with the Prince stating: “It has been a year since this started." In a reference to his brother, Harry wrote: “W, do you agree?” According to Harry's lawyers, courtiers held discussions with newspaper executives in 2017 about receiving compensation and apologies “to the entire Royal household including the Queen” for “unlawful activities”

Mr Justice Fancourt stated: "I have previously indicated to the parties that this individual claim, although it raises important issues, is starting to absorb more than an appropriate share of the court's resources, contrary to the requirement in the overriding objective to deal with cases justly and at proportionate cost."

Anthony Hudson KC, for the publisher, said the duke “has known about these types of emails for years”. He also said it was very “late in the day” to be requesting further searches so close to the trial date which would be “disproportionate, time consuming and costly”.

Hudson instead claimed that the documents sought were “not relevant” and “not necessary to ensure a fair trial”.