Prince Harry
Karaway Tang/WireImagePrince Harry He is set to return to the UK as his legal battle continues.
The Duke of Sussex is set to take on News Group Newspapers (NGN) – which it owns The sun – In court starting this month. Harry, 40, previously accused the media company of using illegal methods to collect information.
Welcome! magazine It was reported on Tuesday, January 7, that when Harry travels home, his wife will not be with him Meghan Markle. The publication noted that she will likely remain in California with their children, Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3.
Formerly NGN He admitted to hacking the phone in World newswhich was shut down in 2011. They have since claimed there was no wrongdoing at The Sun.
Prince Harry's case against News Group Newspapers will go to trial early next year – without claims his phone was hacked. The High Court in London ruled on Thursday (July 27) that Harry's lawsuit accusing NGN, which owns The Sun newspaper, can go ahead, but Judge Timothy Fancourt dismissed the phone hacking claims as too old. Fancourt (…)
In an April 2023 lawsuit, Harry claimed that his brother, Prince Williamsettled with NGN For a “very large sum” In 2020. He also claimed that the royal family He had a 'secret agreement' With the media company preventing any member from filing lawsuits. (NGN has since denied this claim.)
He rules over Timothy Fancourt The court ruled last July that Harry's case could proceed only on the basis of allegations of illegal information gathering. Allegations of his phone being hacked fell outside the six-year timeframe for bringing the case. The judge also stated that Harry failed to provide evidence of the alleged “secret agreement”. The trial was eventually scheduled for January 2025. (The hearing is scheduled to last eight weeks.)
This is not the first time Harry has faced the British media. He was part of a group that sued Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which owns the Daily Mail, for allegedly hacking celebrities' voicemails as a means of obtaining personal information. He made a major statement while giving evidence in June 2023, making him the first member of the royal family to take this position in 130 years. By December 2023, a The judge ruled in Harry's favor. Court documents we obtained at the time revealed that the judge found “sufficient evidence” that MGN “engaged in illegal information gathering, including phone hacking.”
Since stepping down as a senior royal in 2020, Prince Harry has not been shy about standing up for himself – and has attempted to do so through numerous lawsuits. Perhaps most famously, the Duke of Sussex fought against the fact that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, lost state-funded police protection during the United[…]
Harry spoke candidly about his ongoing legal battle over the past month, noting that his time in court is about “accountability” in court. New York TimesTop DealBook.
He said of his predecessors: “They settled because they had to settle.” “So, one of the main reasons to make this happen is accountability, because I'm the last person who can actually make it happen.”
