The Duke of Sussex and his bad blood with the press, are not a hot topic for the public anymore. He has become the first royal ever to stand in Court to fight and testify against the British tabloids. The estranged prince recently gave his testimony for his hacking case against the newspaper company MGN and, of course, his allegations against the journalists were strictly declined. However, recently an editor confessed her side of the story about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. And things have got interesting.

As reported by Newsweek, the former editor of a magazine named Women’s Weekly has confessed that some of the articles which were written by her were unfair and quite one-sided. Alice O’Connell worked as an editor for almost six years for the New Zealand Women’s Weekly. She says that she was motivated to share her side of the story after seeing that Prince Harry had included one of her signed magazine covers in his Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan.

O’Connell said that she had hoped that she could be a kind journalist when she begin her career. However, in the heat of things, the magazine was never kind to the couple, and neither were her articles. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited New Zealand to meet their fans. That’s when the editor decided to apologize for being unkind to the pair.

Alice O’Connell said that she felt like she owed the couple an apology, since some of her published stories were terribly unfair and one-sided, which caused the couple a significant amount of harm. “But I was a cog in the machine,” she admits. “A very small cog all the way out on the other side of the world in New Zealand, but a cog, nonetheless,” she confessed with a heavy heart.

Stories about Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle were just to sell papers 

The former editor explained that the women’s weekly magazine has been writing about the Royal family for the last 90 years. In fact, the Sussexes have had an article every week, either on the main cover or as a huge drop-in. “They were extremely popular,” she says. O’Connell further confessed that her biggest mistake was when she stopped seeing Prince Harry as a human being and now she was ashamed of it.

Nonetheless, the disheartened editor conveyed that she never took part in anything scandalous in her career. Thus, something as low as a phone hacking scandal or underhanded measures to get stories were never her choices. However, she reprinted stories and quotes from British newspapers, which now she knows were false.

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