Prince Harry is going where other British royals haven't for over a century: to a courtroom witness stand as he begins to take on three of Britain's best-known tabloid publishers.
to do so since the late 19th century, when Queen Victoria's eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, testified twice in court.
He also cites harassment and intrusion by the British Press and "vicious, persistent attacks" on his wife, Meghan, including racist articles, as the reasonand fled to the U.S. in 2020. Reforming the news media has become one of his life’s missions. In addition to Mirror Group Newspapers, he is suing Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and Associated Newspapers Ltd., which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.
Associated Newspapers "vigorously denies" the claims. News Group has apologized for News of the World's hacking but The Sun does not accept liability or admit to any of the allegations, according to spokespeople. But the admission involving Harry — the hiring of a private eye to dig up unspecified dirt for an article about his nightclubbing — wasn't among the nearly 150 articles between 1995 and 2011 for which he claimed Mirror Group reporters used phone hacking and other illegal methods to gather material. The trial is focusing on 33 of those stories.
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