Brit newspaper hacked Kate Middleton's phone, court hears

LONDON - A court trying former British newspaper editors over alleged phone-hacking today heard that one newspaper had hacked into the phone of Kate Middleton, Prince William’s then girlfriend and now his wife.

In one voice message William, who was then training at the Sandhurst military academy, called her “babykins,” while in another he revealed that he had almost been shot with blanks while on an army exercise.

“Hi baby,” he said in one message. “I had a busy day today again. I’ve been running around the woods of Aldershot chasing shadows and getting terribly lost, and I walked into some other regiment’s ambush, which was slightly embarrassing because I nearly got shot.

“Not by live rounds but by blank rounds, which would be very embarrassing though,” he said in the message, details of which had been published in the now defunct tabloid News of the World.

Prince Harry’s phone was also hacked, the court heard.