Harry in London to Support His Lawsuit
On Monday morning, Prince Harry surprised everyone by turning up at the High Court in London for the first of four days of preliminary hearings in a case against the Associated Newspapers, Ltd. The Associated Newspapers publishes the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
Harry is a co-plaintiff along with Sir Elton John; Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, the mother of Stephen Lawrence; actresses Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley; and Sir Simon Hughes, a former Liberal Democrat MP. If you saw the coverage Monday, you saw that both Elton John and Sadie Frost also showed up at the court to watch the proceedings.
According to The Telegraph in this report:
[The plaintiffs] claim the newspaper group “habitually utilised unlawful information gathering as part of the modus operandi of preparing stories” during the relevant period.
In court documents, they allege that journalists hired private investigators to put listening devices in homes and cars, listened in to phone calls, accessed bank records and financial information “through illicit means and manipulation” and commissioned the “breaking and entry into private property”.
The alleged activity ran from 1993 to 2011, and even up to 2018, lawyers said.
These four days of court hearings were preliminary hearings, which raised the question among fans why Harry chose to fly halfway round the world to attend.