Princess Diana leaked information about the Prince of Wales to "an ally" in the press in order to "take on" her estranged husband, former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman told the phone hacking trial.
The defence at the Hacking trial has opened with the warning from Rebekah Brooks's barrister that they are "only at the half way point and they still have a long way to go."
He told them that it was important that they remember what Mrs Brooks was not being tried for. Jonathan Laidlaw said she is not being tried because she was the editor of a tabloid newspaper, nor because she worked for Rupert Murdoch's company.
She is not being tried for news international"s corporate strategy, nor for any political views she might hold or for the support her newspaper might have given to one political party or another. He said there were three main points they must concentrate on:
First, did she "know about and endorse the practise of hacking" while she was editor of the News of the World, secondly did she encourage a journalist at The Sun to pay an official at the ministry of defence for stories, which boiled down to "did she know the contact was a public official?".
Finally did she "give instructions that evidence should be put beyond the police?"
The ex-News of the World chief texted former PM Tony Blair saying she was 'feeling properly terrified' the day before the police interview.
In contrast to yesterday's cool performance, the former editor broke down whilst giving evidence in her phone-hacking trial.
Tony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks how to shield James Murdoch from the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal, the Old Bailey heard today.