If you’re not familiar with the current phone hacking trial going on regarding News of the World, you can head here. From BBC:
Voicemails left for Kate Middleton by her boyfriend Prince William were hacked by the News of the World, the phone-hacking trial has heard.
In one message William used the pet name “babykins” and in another told her he had almost been shot with blanks.
An unnamed male also left a message for Prince Harry impersonating his then-girlfriend Chelsey Davey.
It is the first time the jury has heard that the Duchess of Cambridge’s phone had been hacked.
Prince William was undergoing officer training at Sandhurst in 2006 when he said he “nearly got shot” with blank rounds during a training exercise in Aldershot.
Former NoW editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are on trial with then royal editor Clive Goodman and four others others accused of a number of offences, which they all deny, including conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails.
‘Very embarrassing’
In another message, Prince William said he was going “beagling” – hunting with beagles – and invited his future wife to go with him.A message from the prince left on the duchess’s phone was discovered at the house of Mr Goodman in 2006, prosecutor Andrew Edis told the Old Bailey.
Mr Goodman denies conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, opened one message to his girlfriend: “Hi baby. Um, sorry, I’ve just got back in off my night navigation exercise.”
He went on: “I’ve been running around the woods of Aldershot chasing shadows and getting horribly lost, and I walked into some other regiment’s ambush, which was slightly embarrassing because I nearly got shot.
“Not by live rounds but by blank rounds, which would have been very embarrassing, though.”
When the exercise story was reported in the News of the World the paper reported that Prince William had been shot with blanks, even though this did not actually happen.
In court Mr Edis also quoted from a jokey message left for Prince Harry by an unknown male impersonating Chelsey Davey saying: “You are the best looking ginger I have ever seen.”
At the time the NoW said the message had been left by his brother William.
The message, which was found at the home of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, went on: “It’s lovely out here in Africa and hopefully I’ll see you very soon you big hairy fat ginger.”
