Prince Harry's highly anticipated showdown against the publisher of the Daily Mirror kicked off Monday without him present in court — and the judge was not happy.
kicked off Monday without him present in court — and the judge was not happy.
The case against Mirror Group is the first of the prince's several lawsuits against the media to go to trial, and one of three alleging tabloid publishers unlawfully snooped on him in their cutthroat competition for scoops on the royal family. But Sherborne it was not hard to infer that Mirror journalists used the same techniques on Harry — eavesdropping on voicemails and hiring private eyes to snoop — as they did on others.
The articles at issue in the trial date back to his 12th birthday, in 1996, when the Mirror reported Harry was feeling "badly" about the divorce of his mother and father, now King Charles III.
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