If you've ever wondered what they Duke and Duchess of Cambridge call each other in private, you don't have to be in the dark anymore. It has been revealed that the royal couple and new parents Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge had personal messages to each other with the Prince addressing Kate as "Babykins." 

Information surfaced as the Globe and Mail has just reported that the phones of the members of the royal family have been hacked by a staff working for Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World Tabloid.

According to telegraph.co.uk, the defunct and embattled News of the World British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch -- in a major lawsuit for illegal phone hacking of several high profile individuals -- also hacked the phone of the Royal couple and other members of the royal family.

It was revealed in a London court Thursday, December 19, 2013 that some information gained through the hack included intimate exchanges where Prince used his "Babykins" nickname for Kate and the fact that he nearly got shot during training exercises.

"Babykins, just tried ringing you, hope you're alright," said William in one message. Another message said, "Hi baby. Um, sorry, I've just got back off my night navigation exercise," he said in a new message. "I've been running around the woods of Aldershot chasing shadows and getting horribly 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 have been very embarrassing, though."

The court also had in its possession extracts of transcripts of a record left on the phone of Prince Harry, William's younger brother wherein an unknown male individual, thought to be William pretended to be Harry's then girlfriend Chelsy Davy and referred to him as "ginger" due to his red hair color.

Prosecutors reported that recordings of the voicemails left by the Duke for the Duchess during his stay at the Sandhurst military academy in Berkshire were found in the possession of Clive Goodman, the paper's former editor in 2006.

This is the first time that it has been confirmed that royal family members have been victims of the hacking. The hacking scandal resulted in the closure of the News of the World back in 2011.