Magazine says sorry to Harry

A magazine has apologised for breaking a global media blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment in Afghanistan.

Australian women’s magazine’s New Idea’s breach of the blackout forced the third in line to the British throne to be withdrawn from frontline duty.

In a short apology in its latest edition, it said: “We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were not party to any agreement for a media blackout on the story.”

It added: “However, and more importantly, we do acknowledge that our actions in publishing the story can be reasonably viewed as insensitive and irresponsible.”

Harry, 23, was hastily pulled out of Afghanistan last month, after just 10 weeks on the frontline, because of British fears that news of his presence my could increase the danger to him and his fellow soldiers.

New Idea, which often runs cover stories of the British royal family, said it was not “alert to… Read the full story