Prince William slammed paparazzi as a leaked video shows the royal screaming at a photographer he accuses of "stalking" his children.
The heir to the throne approached the cameraman while biking out in the countryside near his Anmer Hall home in Norfolk in January last year. The Duke of Cambridge branded the photographer 'disgusting' before accusing him of "stalking around" and looking for his children".
The video, which was viewed over 20,000 times across the weekend, has since been deleted from YouTube. The Prince labelled the photographer "outrageous" and "disgusting", adding: "Thanks for ruining our day," writes the Mirror.
Kensington Palace responded to the clip, uploaded over a year after it was filmed, by telling The Telegraph that the photographer was breaching the family's privacy. Towards the start of the footage, the cameraman says: "I've just realised who it was and I've just stopped", to which Prince William responds: "You didn't, you have been looking for us."
The photographer continues: "I promise you I've not been near your house." The Duke later rages: "How dare you behave like you've done with my children. How dare you. "You're stalking around looking for us and our children. I'm having a quiet bike ride with my children on a Saturday. You're outrageous. You're disgusting. You really are. How dare you behave like that."
He is then seen holding a phone to his ear while riding his bike, saying: "Yeah I need you here, I've had an altercation with a photographer. He's filming me. I'm right next to him now. Thanks for ruining our day." The cameraman says: "I think I saw you, I moved into the tower", to which the Duke replied: "You didn't, you knew exactly what you were doing. Thought you guys had learnt by now."
It is not the first time that the Cambridge's have faced down the press. In 2017, France's Closer Magazine was ordered to pay 100,000 euros (£91,700) at a Paris court over a long-lens images of Kate sunbathing on a terrace, after it was ruled they had breached her privacy.
Neither of the Royals attended any of the court sessions, but William did present statements attacking the paparazzi. In one written in May, he said the impact of the topless photographs were "all the more painful" given the harassment linked to the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
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