Prince Harry has outlined the impact the British tabloid press has had on his life in his first day giving evidence in London’s High Court as part of his legal case against Mirror Group Newspapers. (THR)
On Tuesday morning, the prince became the first member of the royal family to be cross-examined in court since 1891. Harry claims that journalists working for the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People hacked his voicemails and illegally used private investigators to obtain stories about his private life. (The Guardian)
He declared that editors and journalists “have blood on their hands” because of the lengths to which they went to ferret out news about him and his family, not least his mother, Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued by photographers. (NYT)
Harry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered in the court case. (BBC News)