Prince Harry was back in High Court for Day Two on the witness stand in the royal’s lawsuit against the publisher of three British tabloids.
LONDON — The prince appeared more animated, confident, a little combative.The BBC concluded, “Harry didn’t crumble.” And he didn’t face any big new embarrassing revelations of the sort that have made other high-ranking British royals wary of appearing in court for more than a century.
He is charging that they deployed “unlawful means” to get their stories, including phone hacking and “blagging” — British slang for obtaining confidential information by impersonation and deception. The prince argued that personal information — about his broken thumb, an Australian surf holiday, conversations with his then-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy — had to have come from hacking.
For all of Harry’s experience with the tabloids, the prince is “obviously very naive about how the press works,” Arbiter said. “They feed off each other.”Arbiter said multiple people are in positions to provide information about the prince. He acknowledged that some tabloids here and abroad would pay for the information. But that isn’t inherently illegal.
But the Mirror’s lawyer argues that there is no direct evidence that the newspaper group’s publications specifically targeted Harry. Also, the over-the-top British tabloids of the 1990s have already moderated their behavior, even as interest in celebrities has exploded — and been monetized by the celebrities themselves. Social media — more cruel, more mob — has changed the landscape.
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