Prince Harry became the first senior royal to appear in a witness box since the 1890s as he gave evidence against tabloid publisher Mirror Group Newspapers, whose titles he blames for destroying his adolescence and later relationships
, said thousands if not millions of stories had been written about him, as Green pressed him on whether he had read the MGN articles in question at the time they were published.Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex walks outside the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain, June 6, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Quizzed about one article, Harry said it was "as distressing looking at it now" as it was at the time it was published in 2004. He will be back on Wednesday to give more evidence.When he arrived at court, he briefly smiled as he passed the phalanx of photographers and camera crews. Outside the courtroom itself people queued to gain access to one of the dozen or so seats allocated to the public.
On Monday, his lawyer David Sherborne said Harry's late mother Princess Diana, had also been a victim of hacking, and the prince referred to this in his witness statement, laying the blame on the Daily Mirror's former editor Piers Morgan. Asked what he thought of Tuesday's accusations, Morgan told Sky News: "I didn't see it. But I wish him luck with his privacy campaign. Look forward to reading it in his next book.", has previously admitted its titles were involved in phone-hacking, settling more than 600 claims, but Green has said there was no evidence that Harry had ever been a victim.
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