The story that let the cat out of the bagThe news blackout on Prince Harry’s service in Afghanistan was shattered by the US-based Drudge Report website, which has made its name breaking controversial stories.
British and international media had agreed not to publish details of the deployment to avoid putting the lives of Harry and his comrades at risk.
Australian weekly women’s magazine New Idea broke the story in January but it was not followed up. The magazine today denied it had been aware of a press embargo.
Australian weekly women’s magazine New Idea broke the story back in January
Then German paper the Berliner Kurier published a short piece speculating on whether the Prince had been sent to a warzone.
But it was a short piece posted on the hugely influential Drudge Report website on Wednesday that forced the Ministry of Defence to… Read the full story