Prince Harry is the first royal to testify in a century. That’s making Buckingham Palace nervous
days before British tabloids reported in intimate detail the couple’s plans to break up because she could not handle press intrusion.
The 33 stories noted in the trial go back as early as Harry’s 12th birthday, in 1996, when it was reported that he felt “badly” about his parents divorce. Harry said that growing up with these insights into his life being published led to feelings or paranoia about who he could trust, as well as “huge bouts of depression and paranoia.”of Harry and Meghan Markle, was aware of unlawful techniques being used by reporters during his time as editor of the Mirror from 1995 to 2004.
MGN also argues that the case should be thrown out because claims were not brought in the six-year window from when the alleged wrongdoings happened or when the plaintiff knew about it. The publisher has already paid over $125 million in settlements over similar cases, and printed an apology to a victim of phone hacking in 2015.
Harry’s libel case is in reference to the Daily Mail headline claiming that he tried to conceal legal efforts to get the British government to provide police protection. The headline in question read: “How Prince Harry tried to keep his legal fight with the government over police bodyguards a secret… then — just minutes after the story broke — his PR machine tried to put a positive spin on the dispute.
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