The Duke of Sussex said he would cut off anyone in his friend group if he suspected they were leaking information to the press

When asked by Antony White KC, for Associated Newspapers Limited, the Duke of Sussex said it was “pretty convincing” that journalists had sourced information about him from his friends at the time they were published.

He said: “That was the way the articles had been written, a source said this, an insider said this.”

Following the death of my mother in 1997 when I was 12 years old and her treatment at the hands of the press, I have always had an uneasy relationship with them.

However, as a member of the institution the policy was to ‘never complain, never explain’.